Across the park on a street outside Goodison stands a statue of the Holy Trinity – Alan Ball, Howard Kendall and Colin Harvey.
In time, Liverpool might well have their own monument to a trio who will go down in a club’s folklore.
There was an irony about the recent indignation on Merseyside over Virgil van Dijk being pipped to the Ballon d’Or by Lionel Messi.
The defender’s excellence and harvesting of individual honours has meant the credit given to Mohamed Salah, Roberto Firmino and Sadio Mane has been suitably fulsome but not excessive.
Indeed, it has been a while since we reminded ourselves this is a three-cog combination that is replicating the sort of dazzling deeds carried out by, say, that vintage Barcelona mix of Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Neymar.
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The numbers might not have been that great against Watford, the gun-to-wire input from them not at its most brilliant.
But it took just five touches – and probably about five seconds – from the three lithe men to make the crucial breakthrough in this contest and keep Liverpool’s record-breaking dial turning.
That is what they can do. Turn a game in the blink of an eye.
And as much as van Dijk has had a transformative effect on this team, Liverpool will carry on winning things mainly because of this remarkable attacking unit.
On a day when Watford were left to rue a succession of air-shots and miskicks, this unit effectively won the game for Liverpool, with one sweeping move.
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The lead was doubled in the dying embers of proceedings but it was the opener that was the decisive play of the day.
When Ismaila Sarr committed one of those miskicks, there was a snigger from the Liverpool dugout.
Jurgen Klopp spun to admonish the mocker with the anger he normally reserves for dodgy translators.
He knew this was no laughing matter for Liverpool.
They were far from their fluent best and their vulnerability at the back would have been punished by any set of players with a trace of confidence in their game.
Sarr’s almost contactless swipe with the goal at his mercy was symptomatic of Watford’s ills.
But Klopp’s team still needed to find the win while not being on song.
And that way was paved by Firmino and Mane for Salah.
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When Will Hughes’ header left base at right angles, Firmino’s response was instant, sending the ball to a dashing Mane.
The Senegalese’s contribution was also a singular touch – a left-footed pass to set Salah away.
Salah had Kiko Femenia and goalkeeper Ben Foster to deal with.
Three touches did the trick this time.
The cut inside on to his supposedly weaker foot, the teeing-up touch and the curling finish.
Salah does not do ordinary goals.
Indeed, his nerve-settler in the 90th minute was an impudent back flick after Divock Origi had scuffed a sitter.
What is it about this Liverpool team and back heels, flicks, call them what you like? Is it just me or do they seem to have an insatiable appetite for them?
Or is it just they have the supreme self-belief of a team that has not been beaten in 34 Premier League matches and has not been beaten in the Premier League at Anfield since April of 2017?
Yes.
There is a confidence in this stadium even when the opposition are creating chances the way Watford did.
They used to say the Kop would suck the ball into the net for Liverpool. They were blowing it off the boots of Watford’s assailants.
Three gold-plated opportunities were passed up and when Firmino, Mane and Salah are on the field, punishment is almost inevitable.
Almost as inevitable as a first title in three decades, a first Premier League title.
And maybe as inevitable as those three wonderful players one day being celebrated in stone.
