Alexander-Arnold could douse the fire around him but Liverpool owners deserve heat too | Barney Ronay The full-back is clearly itching to move but an unrealistic Local Lad premium is demanded of him that reflects wider alienation.
He brings that combination of exhilarating talent, obvious weakness and an endearingly distinctive way of moving, the sense that one of these days you’re going to look down and notice he really is wandering around the centre circle in a pair of flip-flops, or ambling off to take a corner with a surfboard under his arm.
It seems weird, disproportionate and strangely fevered, not to mention hostage to some persuasive media voices that carry a bit too much unexamined fan-feeling and not enough of the old journalistic detachment.
Enough already with the big media fuss I am making a big media fuss over.
But that peripheral noise is also a little out of control, not to mention potentially harmful to a Liverpool team poised at an awkward caesura in their season.
