Dion Fanning: Learning on the job is a luxury Liverpool can't afford

Trent Alexander-Arnold will be in midfield when Liverpool have the ball and at right back when they don’t. Might it be better the other way round? 

LEARNING ON THE JOB: England seem to have found a role for Alexander-Arnold in midfield and that may make things harder for Liverpool.

If reality is your thing, the Aviva Stadium on Tuesday night was the place for you. The full-time whistle brought an end to one kind of misery, the misery of existence, and it was a reminder that without some sense of escapism, sport is pointless.

Despair, dejection, hopelessness were the overriding feelings as Stephen Kenny’s time came to an end, but, as the gag goes, we can get all that at home. Sport can’t exist without something more.