Dave Thompson/Associated Press
LIVERPOOL, England — It seemed to start in the far corner of Anfield’s vertiginous Main Stand, at the point where the top tier joins the Anfield Road End and the sky. A sudden commotion, crackling through the mid-game static: fists punching the air, fans embracing, bouncing on the spot. The rest of the stadium turned, as one, to the source of the noise they had been waiting to hear.
Below them, in front of them, bathed in sunshine, a game was going on. Liverpool was leading by a single goal against Wolves — from Sadio Mané, just as the nerves were starting to mount — but right at that moment, that did not matter at all.