When People Who Love You Support Liverpool Just Because You Do

Me with ‘Gauchito’ T-shirt from the World Cup in 1978. I appear to have mastered the art of sitting on the ball.

My mum, who loved football from a young age, was a Liverpool fan by proxy; coming to care passionately about the club via my interest in the club.

I travelled to see her on Sunday, and though extremely frail and struggling to talk, yesterday she was well enough to partially watch the Jürgen Klopp documentary that my sister suggested she watch.

And then my mum died in her sleep in the early hours of this morning.