In the tunnel, Leo stood leaning against a wall with his eyes on the floor and his thoughts somewhere else.
He remained that way until sudden movements made him look up, and when he did, he saw Virgil Van Dijk was ahead of him, calling his teammates forward, resolutely.
"Come on boys," he repeated as the Liverpool players rallied behind him, but it wasn't only him.
Salah went past and so did Alisson, the two certainly exchanging some keen words about the next half from the look on their faces.
Because of the whole narrative surrounding the game, he hadn't even thought too much of them before the game kicked off, but now it was like a history class all over again.
Players whose careers had been written into the history of the game walking by in a tunnel under a stadium in Wigan, and for a moment Leo watched them and thought about the distance between where he had been and where he was standing right now.
