Liverpool fixtures have come with a government health warning to centre-backs this season.

Amid the applause for the swashbuckling attacking of Jurgen Klopp’s side, there’s been an epidemic of ‘tut-tutting’ from admirers of blood and guts defending.

Liverpool have been the targets as much the opponents they’ve dismantled, and if there has been one consistent source of irritation to Klopp it’s the suggestion he has built a side of cavaliers at the expense of his backline.

No-one has yet explained to the Liverpool manager what comparisons to Kevin Keegan’s Newcastle mean, but should he receive the briefing he will be furious. The notion of Liverpool’s defence being a weak link offends him, and with the greatest respect to Keegan’s great entertainers of the mid-90s referencing them because Klopp’s side scores goals, creates chances but has conceded a few demonstrates there are those who are not paying enough attention.