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View image in fullscreenAnalysisTriviality of the non-title decider leads to fun, frivolity and petty booing at Anfield

Had Liverpool and Arsenal been playing for the league, the heckling of Trent Alexander-Arnold does not happen

In the 95th minute, Martin Ødegaard ran through on goal.

The Arsenal fans in the Anfield Road stand lurched forward in anticipation.



No way does the Kop go there if the title is still on the line.

But then by the same token, nor does Alexander-Arnold.

There are no rules to this thing, and can you imagine if there were?

Having grown up in Liverpool, a club and a city where the ties that bind are always a little more conditional and transactional than people like to admit, Alexander?Arnold should have known what he was getting into.

In a way there was a sinister mafioso quality to this very public flogging: and let that be a warning to the rest of you.

But perhaps, on some oblique level, it also helps to explain the modern Liverpool, a club on the verge of dismantling the team that has just won them a second Premier League.
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