Write Off Virgil Van Dijk At Your Peril
On December 27th 2017, news broke that Virgil Van Dijk was to become a Liverpool player for what was then a world record fee for a defender. Liverpool had chased the defender for six months and after an aborted attempt to sign him in summer transfer window, which ended in an apology and a statement that they would not longer be pursuing his signature, they had finally gotten their man. They had paid the price for that messy summer though. …
V for Van Dijk: One Man's Stand Against the Establishment
TURF MOOR, Burnley: The game poised at one all after the Clarets took an early lead. Liverpool have earned themselves a freekick in an odd position. Too far out to shoot, too close to the centre of the pitch to fire in a cross with any true potential for damage. Or so one would think.
With a clever lay off and return, Trent Alexander Arnold curls an exquisite free-kick to the back post to a surging Virgil Van Dijk, who …