Jason McAteer: After the Hillsborough verdict, a Liverpool win would mean even more

Jason McAteer will be in Basel tonight, covering the Europa League final for television. Tomorrow, the former Liverpool midfielder, who retains close links with the club, will be flying back to Mersyside with the team and, “hopefully,” he smiles, “with the trophy”.

McAteer thinks it would be especially fitting if his old side could experience European success – and entry to the Champions League – to complete the season in which, after 27 long years, justice for the Hillsborough 96 was finally delivered.

“I think Jurgen (Klopp) will stay away from the sentiment of that and the players will be professionally minded,” he says of how emotionally charged tonight could be.