Talk of the town: Trent Alexander-Arnold has been key to Liverpool’s success this season

The birds perch, resplendent, on the Liver Building and sunlight makes the Mersey a strip of dancing gold. Such a beautiful day. A day for not caring, for taking life lightly. But that’s not Trent Alexander-Arnold.

“Don’t let them down,” Bill Shankly always said before sending Liverpool players out to play for their public. Trent takes very seriously who he represents.

Family, city, academy; every kid on a Liverpool street, Scousers whatever their background and race: he’s conscious, with each step on the pitch, that he carries them all. We meet on this shimmering day for a conversation based around Trent reaching 50 Premier League games and he’s a revelation right up to his parting shot - that when the 2013-14 title slipped for Liverpool