insiderblmWith seconds left, Atletico Madrid’s Alvaro Morata slides a shot past Liverpool’s Adrian to complete a remarkable victory at Anfield.
As the ball hits the net, 3,000 Atletico fans erupt and manager Diego Simeone celebrates before them.
But as the lights went out on Liverpool’s Champions League defence, so they did on football – Covid-19 shutting the game down for three months and leaving European grounds empty indefinitely.
A subsequent investigation found the game was one of two major sporting events in the UK that week, along with the Cheltenham Festival, that “caused increased suffering and death”.
Indeed, by the end of March last year, Liverpool was a suspected coronavirus hotspot, with one of the highest suspected number of cases in the country.
One year on from the last match before a full house, we’ve spoken to those who were inside Anfield to find out what it was like.
