Liverpool know the pain of Vinicius Junior and Real Madrid after finishing runners-up at the Ballon d’Or. Vinicius and Real chose to boycott Monday night’s ceremony in Paris after learning that Man City’s Rodri had pipped the Brazilian to the award. It was an embarrassing move from a club who are well used to getting their own way and has received rightful criticism from around the football world. If Vinicius needed an example of how to behave having finished second in the prestigious individual gong, then he need only have looked at the response Virgil van Dijk gave after coming second to Lio…
