Champions: A form in Anfield, as a measure against the coronavirus in Liverpool | Champions League 2019

To access the 'red' stadium, you must fill out a page where you must rule out having been on a list of 14 passes, Italy among them, and having no symptoms. At the Manchester Airport terminal, not a single detection measure

Until the gateway to Anfield Stadium, the coronavirus does not seem to go with Liverpool. Once there, the only obstacle to the heart of the room is a form made up of several five questions. “Have you been to any of these passes?” The list is made up of 14 states, including Italy. “Do you have any of these symptoms?” It is enough to mark an 'x' in the box of N (No) to have free va.

Because on Liverpool's busy Paradise Street, one of the city's commercial pedestrian streets, everyone walks carefree. The coronavirus does not appear to generate distress in the birthplace of the Beatles. Just a small sign that something has changed from day to day. In the minimalist reception of the Novotel Center hotel, on a small but high wooden round table, there is a bottle of disinfecting gel in case any of the newcomers should use it as a precaution. That, at least, in this busy corner.

The wind blows with desire in the mentioned 'footbridge' of Paradise Street. More than a stall owner would like, where dozens of scarves, announcing the impending Liverpool-Atlantic (X / 21.00), are outlined with violence. While Paris closed the doors of the stadium that will house the PSG-Borussia Dortmund, in Anfield, except for last minute change, everything will work as planned and the stands will be filled to attend a game that, unlike many others in Europe, does not seem to be under suspicion.

No mask is detected in the streets of Liverpool where, at noon, many of its inhabitants fill restaurants, shops and entertainment venues without fear. Even the seagulls, resting from the nearby estuary of the river Mersey, they observe the scene with great normality. As nothing happened in the rest of the planet.

Door closed?

More than three kilometers away, in another corner of the city, stands the mythical Anfield stadium. The same one where on Wednesday, at about 20.00 British time, more than 45,000 people will gather. “Play behind closed doors? The problem is that if you are not in football you are in a bar. In any case, we will accept any decision,” he maintained with a serious gesture. Jurgen Klopp, coach of the network set.

There were also no symptoms of concern at the airport. Manchester, a neighboring city, just over an hour by road. The only masks came from the flight that had left Playing cards. Surely, there would be some more coming from some other destination. But by the terminal there was no trace of thermometers or any type of control for the coronavirus, despite the fact that many travelers came from places, such as Madrid, which has become one of the main centers of Spain.