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It was quiet around Anfield three hours before kick-off but there is a sense of what is to come. For £15 you can buy a ‘Guilty’ flag, depicting the City squad in jail or a ‘Cheats’ banner riffing off Oasis’s own style. What larks.
The internet: an apology. It turns out you were right. It was actually a simulation all along. Now, talk to me about chemtrails again. And yes, maybe Vinícius Júnior has been replaced by a handsome, baffled-looking waxwork.