'Origi created those islands of ecstasy'

[BBC] [Getty Images] There will never be another footballer quite like Divock Origi. Footballers' careers are short at the best of times, but it is hard to imagine another player's career that could be so aptly described as lightning in a bottle. And not just lightning of a common variety - the best kind of lightning. The kind that wins you Champions Leagues and Premier Leagues. The kind that produces moments that you tell your children about. I was there when Origi scooped it past a helpless Marc-Andre ter Stegen at the Kop End to send Liverpool to Madrid. I was in the wide sloping stands of the Metropolitano Stadium when he scooped it past a despairing Hugo Lloris to stamp the passport of a sixth European cup - destination Anfield - back where it belonged. Goals like that don't come along too often. Top-level football is a game that exists perpetually in a state of delicate balance, rarely offering points of relief throughout the breathless 100 or so minutes. But Origi created those islands of ecstasy, moments of certainty amongst the great swathes of uncertainty. Watching the ball trickle into the corner of Lloris' goal and knowing, beyond all reasonable doubt, that Liverpool were about to win the European Cup - find me a better feeling than that in the sport. Origi gave us that. And then Everton , because you can't not mention it. Some look at that 2018-19 season - 97 points and no title - as a painful lesson in glorious failure, but I don't. To me, it is one half of a winning campaign. Liverpool got serious about winning football matches and trophies and, for two seasons - one loss in 59 games - set about a relentless quest to capture the biggest prizes in the game. Champions of England. Champions of Europe. Conquerors of the world. The goal against Everton with time ebbing away was great. The comedy of it, the unassuming charge back to the centre circle ball in hand - that is Origi. The calmest head. The port in the storm. The deliverer of certainty. All sorts of players will be held up as poster boys of the Jurgen Klopp era, but nobody had the Midas touch quite like Origi. The man who made our dreams come true. The man I will tell my grandchildren about. You'll never walk alone, Divock. Find more from Lola Katz Roberts the Goal Difference podcast