Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp insists their duel with Roma for a place in the Champions League final should not be seen as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

It might be hard to imagine Graeme Souness, the Roy Keane of his era, taking to the pitch for even a routine assignment with anything other than his most ferocious battle face on but, as he revealed in his Sunday newspaper column at the weekend, he and his Liverpool team mates were “larking around like 12-year-olds” in the tunnel before they walked out to play Roma in the latter’s own backyard in the 1984 European Cup final.

David Meyler is convinced the Republic of Ireland will be heading for the World Cup finals in Russia.

It took a post-match walk round the devastated Heysel Stadium for Ronnie Whelan to truly understand the horror that preceded a match he wishes had never taken place.