Where’s yer famous atmosphere? You can be certain the chant will be aired, mockingly, by the Southampton supporters at Anfield this afternoon, probably sooner rather than later.

It has grated with Liverpool’s fans over the years but, these days, they are asking themselves — and indeed their club — the same question: “Where’s our famous atmosphere?” Some of those concerns will be raised at Anfield this morning at the first meeting of its new fans forum, part of a new “supporter engagement model” that the club established in response to the unflattering results of a customer-satisfaction survey last year.

Liverpool fans ramp up the atmosphere on the last day of the old standing Kop in 1994 LIVERPOOL FC VIA GETTY IMAGES

We only have body language to go on here, rather than words, but you suspect that another one questioning the Anfield atmosphere is Jürgen Klopp, who