If Virgil van Dijk ever needs a career outside of football, the Liverpool captain might find that he excels in event planning as much as he does skippering the Premier League champions. It was Van Dijk who put the cherry on the cake that was last Sunday when Liverpool were being primed to celebrate their first league title success in front of fans for 35 years.

"I was very determined to make sure that he was going to be the one who handed the trophy to me," Van Dijk said.

Virgil van Dijk is set to lift the Premier League trophy for Liverpool. The official explanation for the captain's role in the ceremony is frankly bewildering.