Diogo Jota had ‘real bond’ with Liverpool, says fan group leader

Gareth Roberts feels retiring Jota's number 20 shirt would be a fitting tribute following the forward's death

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00:00有真正的 bond between Diogo, Anfield and the Liverpool supporters, the Kop

00:06他 obviously had a fantastic song, which was sung with Gusto every week

00:11and not every player gets a song and not every player who gets a song has his song sung

00:17every time he plays or even when he's on the bench

00:20Diogo had that, people would often see him out and about, he'd be on his bike or things like that

00:26he would always have time for people and he was willing to give people his time

00:30and you never heard really a bad word about him, so he was quite a nice, warm human being

00:36but on the actual football pitch, he had something about him, he had a bit of fight about him

00:42a bit of character about him, a bit of needle about him and we liked that about him

00:47that's what you want to see as a fan and I think it's quite fitting in a way that

00:50he wore number 20, Liverpool won title number 20 and it feels to me like the move might now be that

00:58that shirt is retired in his memory, I think that would be fitting, I think a lot of people are saying

01:03the same thing and that's where attentions are starting to turn as it's starting to sink in

01:09that this is real, what can be done to sort of honour his name really

01:13and that's where he's going to be