By Mark Jones Virgil van Dijk pulls his phone out. The sight of Liverpool ’s historic Albert Dock has stirred happy memories. It was here in 2019 after Champions League glory in Madrid, and in 2022, when Liverpool had lost the final but decided to have a city-wide party anyway to celebrate two domestic cups, that the open top bus parades reached fever pitch. There are videos on Van Dijk’s phone of a blur of red shirts and ecstatic faces, snapshots of the hundreds of thousands who had turned out to greet their conquering heroes. “They are amazing occasions,” he says, before the kind of forthrig…