The city of Liverpool will come to a standstill this weekend as the new Premier League champions embark on a 10-mile route that will produce enough iconography for its own wing in the club museum.

The date of May 26 has been booked in the diaries for quite some time now as Bank Holiday Monday hosts a day that will, even for this football club, go down as one of the most memorable in modern memory, and possibly ever given its significance.

It's the party that was denied supporters five years ago and while it is not technically true that fans did not get to bask in the afterglow of Premier League success, those who congregated outside Anfield on June 26, 2020, did so without the blessing of the club itself as the world continued to live through the pandemic restrictions.

This time out, there are no grander concerns, and the event itself will be attended by an estimated one million people, as supporters from all over the world make the pilgrimage into the city itself.

"This one is going to be insane with the Premier League trophy with us," Harvey Elliott told the ECHO last month. "We have obviously won it before, five years ago, but while it was in a period of COVID, we weren't able to celebrate with the fans as much as we would have liked. It is going to be unreal scenes, to see the city flooded in red and it's not that we don't know it but to see that support once more will be incredible."