Hands up those of us who have coached a team or played a game in the Champions League. No me neither. So, give or take a few, that makes just about all of us.
And, yet according to the Brendan Rodgers bible, the views and opinions of this, the overwhelming majority, ought to be placed in the file marked ‘completely and utterly irrelevant’.
Unless, of course, they happen to agree with him. There are times when it does feel as if Rodgers labours under his very own Messiah complex and that he’s on some sort of mission to educate and enlighten the mere mortals with whom he happens to come into contact whilst carrying out his missionary work.
Which, of course, is very kind of him. But it’s not an act of blasphemy to say he’s just plain wrong when it comes to his continued attempts at cracking the Champions League code.