The box was exactly what it always is before a corner, bodies pressing into bodies, hands grabbing at shirts, elbows finding ribs, and the referee's job becoming less about football and more about crowd control.
Amos planted himself on his line and pushed Nunez back with both hands on his shoulders.
"Get off my line," he said, but the latter pushed back and said something back in Spanish that Amos didn't catch and didn't need to.
Van Dijk was behind him now, his hand finding the back of Amos's shirt, but Ben Amos was too accustomed to it and wasn't going to let it fly.
He turned back towards the Liverpool skipper and then shoved him with an elbow that was technically inside the unwritten rules of football but was outside the rules too.
Virgil Van Dijk didn't let up and instantly shoved Amos back, though there wasn't much malice in it as opposed to him retaliating.
