'What are you doing?' How celebrating fans watched horror unfold

There were no official celebrations when Liverpool last won the Premier League. It was 2020 and the country was in the middle of a Covid lockdown. This time around, the streets were packed with up to a million fans.

- Matthew Weaver

Triumphant Liverpool players began the slow open-top bus journey at about 2.30pm on Queens Drive, south-east of the city centre. It was due to finish at about 7.30pm at Blundell Street near the Royal Albert Docks. But the celebrations were brutally curtailed. This time not by Covid but by a lone driver in a people carrier.

At about 5.40pm the bus passed Water Street as it made its way along the Strand - the main road along the Mersey waterfront. Minutes later hundreds of fans were filmed walking east along Water Street amid red flares after cheering the bus as it went past.

Further up the road, where Water Street runs into Dale Street, tempers were rising. Somehow a grey Ford Galaxy had been allowed into an area closed to vehicles because of the parade.

"What are you doing?" one man is heard shouting at the middle-aged driver in a video.

Many others outside a William Hill bookmakers were angered by the car's presence on a street thronged with hundreds of fans. The car lurched forward while sounding its horn. The car was heading west towards the Strand as most of the crowd were walking the other way.