Florian Wirtz alarm bells ringing after being shown up by Man City star Liverpool spoke to

After the Premier League and its independent commission had played the role of judge and juror during the international break, Liverpool were supposed to be Manchester City's executioners on Sunday. It was not a role Andoni Iraola or his players had asked for but as football's collective fandom largely baked themselves into indignant rage at City's guilty verdict - over their "sham" contracts that artificially inflated commercial revenue by nearly £900m between 2009 and 2018 - it was a job that was foisted upon the Reds at Anfield .