Stan Collymore has praised Liverpool for his or her ‘very elegant’ response to the tragic loss of life of Diogo Jota.
Reds followers on Merseyside and all through the world proceed to mourn the lack of the 28-year-old and his brother Andre Silva in a automobile crash in northern Spain on 3 July, with widespread tributes being paid all through the world of soccer in latest days.
The household of the 2 males had been at Anfield on Friday, with a lot of the stadium’s perimeter lined with flowers, shirts, scarves and different objects laid of their reminiscence as a mark of respect.
Collymore filled with reward for ‘elegant’ Liverpool
In his newest column for CaughtOffsideCollymore shared his personal expertise of listening to the horrific information 9 days in the past and added that anybody at Liverpool in want of emotional assist will have the ability to discover it.
The previous Reds striker wrote: “Liverpool, as at all times, a really elegant soccer membership. You’d anticipate them – significantly with their unlucky understanding of tragedy with Hillsborough and Heysel – is that the very first thing is taking care of the participant’s household, which they’ve completed, and taking care of the gamers and the workers.
“Liverpool will proceed to do this. I don’t assume anyone might be underneath strain to do something that they don’t wish to do. I feel that everyone might be inspired to speak to one another within the dressing room, and maybe if any gamers, significantly people who had been very near him, would possibly want some counselling.”
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Liverpool have dealt with this tragedy with class and dignity
The response from Liverpool FC to the tragedy has certainly been first-class, with LFCTV airing an impeccable tribute programme commemorating Jota earlier this week and the membership additionally retiring his quantity 20 shirt throughout males’s, ladies’s and academy groups.
It isn’t simply the Reds’ gamers who’re feeling a deep-rooted sense of loss and mourning, but additionally each member of workers at LFC, the place Diogo grew to become a beloved determine and at all times might be.
The choice to retire the quantity 20 was made after his household had been consulted because the membership sought to indicate the utmost respect, and additional tributes might be paid previous to kick-off within the pleasant in opposition to Preston on Sunday, our first match because the tragedy occurred.
In gamers reminiscent of Virgil van Dijk, Andy Robertson and Alisson Becker, Liverpool’s dressing room incorporates real leaders who’ll be a rock to anybody who wants assist, and it’s additionally important that these males have somebody to whom they will flip as they attempt to course of their very own grief.
The times, weeks and months forward will current an unprecedented psychological problem for the present Reds squad. As Collymore has stated, although, it is a membership which has skilled tragedy on an unspeakable scale earlier than and stored going by means of indefatigable defiance and an unbreakable collective bond.
