Liverpool win Champions League after beating Spurs 2-0 in final – live!

The look on Klopp’s face as he thrust the trophy skywards, surrounded by his players, will make for a priceless picture. His team were way below par today and he knows what would have been said if they had been punished with defeat, his seventh in a row in a final. Instead his team prevailed and, with this trophy now under their belt, they are likely to become far more formidable. You’d say this could be the beginning of a dynasty ... if Manchester City weren’t around.

As each player takes turns hoisting the trophy high, Liverpool fans serenade them with a lusty and slightly relieved rendition of You’ll Never Walk Alone. Most Spurs fans appear to have left ...

Liverpool’s players bounce up to collect their medals and then gather and dance around the trophy, which Jordan Henderson will soon hold aloft.

Liverpool give their opponents a guard of honour as Spurs’ players troop up to collect their runners-up medals. They don’t even glance at the trophy standing next to the Uefa president handing out the medals. Liverpool know that pain from last season, and they’ve made amends.

A besuited Ian Rush plonks the trophy on its pedestal as Liverpool players stand beside the podium awaiting permission to go grab it...

Des Kelly of BT nabs Salah for an interview, then notices that the rest of the Liverpool team are about to sprint off in unison towards the red-clad fans for a big loving cheer: so he advises Salah to dash off and join his teammates, which the Egyptian does with gusto.

It’s all smiles and back slaps among the Liverpool players. And Pochettino, classy to the end, walks among them to shake hands and congratulate them, after commiserating with his own players.

90+4 min: You’ll Never Walk Alone is reverberating around the stadium as Spurs flail around in search of consolation. It’s not happening.

90 min: There will be at least five more minutes ...

90 min: Joe Gomez is a Champions finalist, having just come on in place of Mané.

89 min: Fabinho’s role in that goal was nice. HE showed coolness as the ball bobbled around the area to flick it to Origi, who finished perfectly. For a player who seldom starts, Origi has scored some huge goals for Liverpool. It’s going to take a comeback better that surpasses anything we’ve seen so far this season for Spurs to prevent Liverpool from winning this now.

86 min: Tripper delivers an outswinger ... Moura meets it eight yards out, shotting into the ground ... Son tries to redirect it towards goal from close range but heads over! He was offside anyway. but Moura’s chance was a good one, if only he’d caught it properly!

85 min: Eriksen goes for the far corner ... and Alison springs to his right to push it behind for a corner.

84 min: Rose beats Milner to a dropping ball at the edge of the area and then goes down under contact from the midfielder. Freekick to Spurs on the right-hand side of the box, close to the corner. Eriksen nudges it a little closer to the corner to give himself a more favourable shooting position...

83 min: Milner is the latest player to muck up a corner, failing to beat the first defender.

82 min: Spurs substitution: Llorente on, Alli off.

80 min: Son unloads one from out of the blue, from 25 yards. It’s struck hard and true and Alisson parries it with difficulty. Spurs get it back into the danger area quickly and Moura fires off a low toe-punter. Alisson saves this one more easily. Liverpool need to wake up.

78 min: Liverpool have dropped back and challenged Spurs to open them up. They work Trippier into space down the right and he clips over a dainty cross. Alli gets his nut to it but sends his effort over from seven yards. And, it turns ut, he fouled Matip anyway so Liverpool have a freekick.

77 min: I’m not sure that Kane has touched the ball in this half.

75 min: A Liverpool attack founders and suddenly Spurs are on the charge. Son tries to run through the heart of their defence and for a moment it looks like he can do it, but then Van Dijk shifts into top gear and eases him off the ball.

74 min: Spurs substitution: Dier on, Sissoko off. The Frenchman may have been injured, he seemed to pick up a strain of some sort.

73 min: The game is loosening up now. Quality isn’t exactly soaring but gaps are opening up. Son skitters towards the Liverpool area and slips the all wide to Alli, who tries a dinky, Deulofue-esque lob over Alisson. But he doesn’t catch it right and it’s a comfortable save for the keeper.

71 min: Alison catches the Spurs’ defence out with a quick long kick to Salah, wide on the right. Salah finds Mané at the edge of the area but he runs into trouble, allowing Spurs to clear.

70 min: Vertonghn flights a fine long pass from deep to Tripper wide on the right. The fullback delivers a fine cross in the danger zone ... but there’s no teammates there to get on the end of it!

69 min: Mané skins Eriksen in midfield and scampers towards the box, zipping the ball in to Salah near the penalty spot. Salah lays it back to Milner, who takes one touch and then lashes a low effort just wide from the edge of the box! Good play!

67 min: Alexander-Arnold donks a pitiful corner to the near post, where Son whacks clear. Even the setpieces have been diabolical today, except for Salah’s penalty.

66 min: Spurs substitution: Moura on, Winks off. Eriksen drops a little deeper.

65 min: At the risk of repeating myself, this is very scrappy. Neither team can string a series of passes together. This is a great advertisement for rugby, or ice hockey or drinking.

62 min: Another Liverpool substitution: Milner on, Wijnaldum off. The Dutchman made no impression.