I’d seen enough of Liverpool this season by the start of August. They were a class above Manchester United in a South Carolina friendly and my attention would focus on what was going wrong at the right end of the East Lancashire Road rather than what was going right in Liverpool.

Liverpool have been crowned Premier League champions after a 5-1 win over Tottenham on Sunday, securing their 20th league title.

Anthony Edwards scored 43 points on 12-for-23 shooting, and the Minnesota Timberwolves rallied late for a 116-113 win over the Los Angeles Lakers in Game 4 of their Western Conference quarterfinals series on Sunday afternoon in Minneapolis.