Everyone is entitled to their own opinion on the decision of a large portion of Liverpool fans to boo Trent Alexander-Arnold when he was brought on against Arsenal.
Many will differ and everyone connected to the football club, be it fans or former players like myself, will have their own takes on the situation. The first thing to say is I totally understand all that.
But listening to the noise as a lad from West Derby came on the pitch hurt me. I have been going to Anfield over 60 years and I have never seen or heard anything like that before. I felt sick.
Us former players, we always stick together, and watching it with the great Ian Callaghan, we felt the same watching on as the boos swept across the stadium every time Trent touched the football. It left me feeling uneasy.
Liverpool is a family and I respect everyone's views who loves the club but the booing did no good for anyone. All it did was help Arsenal get back into a game they should have had no hope in. The visiting fans will have loved it all, sadly.
Should he have been in that situation to begin with? The timing of his announcement last Monday that he will be leaving when his contract expires wasn't particularly great and I have to say, whoever advised him to do that before the season has ended has not read the room at all on this. That, frankly, was a stupid piece of advice that Trent has listened to there.
I've never known such a reaction for any player at Liverpool and people are always going to have their strong opinions when a local player leaves the club on a free transfer. Is Trent's decision a slight on the club itself? Or is he just looking to try something different? Either way the backlash has been fierce and Sunday was unlike anything I have ever known at that football ground.
Trent is a local lad who has very much been a part of what the club has achieved this season and he should be a big part of the parade that we are all going to enjoy later this month.
What Arne Slot and his squad have achieved this year, becoming Premier League champions with four games to spare, should not be overshadowed by anything else happening, regardless of the depth of feeling towards Alexander-Arnold's decision to leave to join Real Madrid.
He should be welcomed on to that bus in the same way as any other Liverpool player in this squad will be but the timing of the decision to leave means that is now a tough spot to be in.
I understood the decision to protect Conor Bradley, who is a young player with huge potential. He hasn't yet shown he can perform consistently for 90-minute games without breaking down here and there, and Arne Slot will be thinking about the long term where the Northern Ireland international is concerned.
But could someone like Jarell Quansah have come on at right-back instead of Trent to avoid the situation that eventually unfolded?
Liverpool should find a way to allow Trent to leave now and join Real Madrid so he can play in the Club World Cup and then he is welcomed back for the trophy parade on May 26. Keeping him around risks more scenes like Sunday, which, as I say, does no-one connected to Liverpool Football Club any good whatsoever.
The seeds have been sewn now.
Games of two halves, but happy days for the champions
It was certainly a game of two halves at Anfield on Sunday.
Arsenal were lucky in the first half because Liverpool could have been out of sight with some of the chances they created. On another day the two teams go in at half time and the Reds would have been leading by three or four.
That would have been a true reflection at the break and I thought Arne Slot's tactics were brilliant to unpick the Arsenal defence as much as Liverpool did in that first half. They struggled to get to grips with Luis Diaz's movement in the No.9 position.
I think Mikel Arteta's side worked their way back into the game very well in the second half though and while we did see that they lack the punch of a proper No.9 up top, they were good value for the draw.
By the end, I thought Slot's side looked a bit jaded, I have to say and if Mikel Merino doesn't foolishly launch into the tackle that earns him a second yellow card then Arsenal might even have nicked it.
The substitutes didn't really have a positive impact on the game and the way Arsenal changed things around at half time allowed them to feel their way back into things. It was a long 25 minutes once the second half began.
Once they went down to 10 men, though, I thought Liverpool started to turn the screw once more and obviously they scored the goal that was ruled out for a foul by Ibrahima Konate on Myles Lewis-Skelly.
In the end, though, you have to say it is happy days for Slot and his players, who stay 15 points clear as the champions of England.
