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When leaving seems to be the hardest part
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|May 21, 2025
THE great Liverpool manager Bill Shankly is famed, apart from his incredible legacy in the game, for saying: "People think football is a matter of life and death; I can assure them it is far more serious than that.
It was tongue-in-cheek, of course, and yet for Shankly there was likely a kernel of truth about how seriously the people of Merseyside treated the round-ball game - and still do.
So I suppose I should not have been wholly surprised to have heard boos from a section of the Liverpool faithful directed at soon-to-depart player Trent Alexander-Arnold.
TAA, as he is known commonly to some football (and fantasy football) diehards, is coming to the end of his Liverpool contract, and has revealed that he won't be signing another; he is expected to join Real Madrid.
This story is from the May 21, 2025 edition of The Herald.
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