23-05-2025
Couple engaged in front of Jurgen Klopp and given away by Bruce Grobbelaar
The biggest winner in Liverpool won't be lifting the trophy after the final game on Sunday, nor will he be on the bus for the parade. Yet he will be at Anfield for the match and he will be streetside for the parade. Eight years ago, neither seemed remotely possible to him.
Dirk Coeck is a 56-year-old Belgian who fell in love with Liverpool when he first saw Kevin Keegan. 'It was his movement and his technical ability,' he says, and that was him hooked.
Much of his latter years as a fan were spent with three friends, all of them bikers, all of them sharing the same Liverpool affliction. Coeck remembers well the last game they went to together: Newcastle United away in 2017,
