Rhys Williams

And speaking of T-Rexes, the great injury plague of 2020 started because Jurassic George decided to snap Van Dyke's leg into like a twiglet and thus began The bad times.

Virg, Matip, Gomez, Fabinho, Hell, even Henderson all went down with injury and before Nat Phillips and Rhys Williams stepped up, we had Ozan Kabak signed in January of 2021 on loan from Schalke in a panicked state of haste with the Turkish defender being...

Okay, he had some decent matches and some absolute shockers during his 13 appearances with the club, losing his first two matches and being booked in both of them before a muscle injury saw him miss the final five of the season and prompting Liverpool not to sign him permanently as a result.

I wasn't as big of an Ozan Kabak cynic as a lot of people, but yeah...

remember seeing players in it, don't you, from back in the day? I remember Curtis Jones.

I remember Rhys Williams.

I remember Kieran Morrison.

You watch...

I always refer back

to Rhys Williams and Nat Phillips as sort of the prime example in all of this.

And we've had other, James McConnell, Trey stepped up in that final you mentioned as well.

But like, you don't get The performances we got out of those two without Jurgen Klopp in situ because he makes them feel ready.