What Liverpool supporters did on train home after Brentford win hasn't been seen for nine years

It has been nine years since Liverpool fans last celebrated a Raheem Sterling goal.

The England international scored the last of his 23 strikes for the Reds in a 2-0 victory over Newcastle United on April 13, 2015 - 3,232 days ago. It came less than two weeks after his controversial, unsanctioned interview with BBC Sport where he confirmed that he had turned down a new £100,000-a-week contract with the club.

Consequently, Kopites had already started to turn lukewarm on the winger, with that strike against the Magpies proving to be his only Liverpool goal following that ill-advised interview. He was actually booed by a number of supporters on May 19 when receiving the Reds’ Young Player of the Year after it had emerged the day before that he would ask to leave the club at the end of the season.

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Agent Aidy Ward would burn Sterling’s bridges with Liverpool further on May 21, when he gave his own interview to the London Evening Standard and infamously declared his client would not be staying at Anfield, even if offered £900k a week.

An unused substitute on the final day of the season as the Reds fell to a harrowing 6-1 defeat away at Stoke City on May 24, by this point the then 20-year-old was already well past the point of no return.

Liverpool would reject £30m and £40m bids from Man City for the forward in June, leading to Sterling reportedly asking to be left out of the club's squad for the pre-season tour of Asia and miss two days of training through illness. Finally on July 12, a £49m deal was agreed, with the England international