Arne Slot is on the verge of leading Liverpool to their 20th league championship as Tottenham Hotspur visit Anfield on SundayArne Slot during a training session at AXA Training Centre on April 23, 2025(Image: Andrew Powell/Liverpool FC via Getty Images))

Arne Slot was alarmed to find his fridge empty during the week. Come Sunday evening, though, the Liverpool boss may have good reason to stock it with the best beverages his native Holland has to offer.

The Red half of Merseyside – along with supporters all around the globe – will have the champagne on ice this weekend ready to mark Liverpool being crowned champions of England for a record-equalling 20th time.

Anfield expects. Arsenal’s draw at home to Crystal Palace on Wednesday night means the Reds need only to avoid defeat at home to Tottenham Hotspur this weekend to clinch the title with four games left to spare.

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Having been denied the customary championship celebrations five years ago due to coronavirus restrictions, it’s a potential party that has been 35 years in the making given Liverpool’s most recent previous such success was way back in 1990.

For his part, Slot has remained calm throughout, helped by largely steering clear of the fan fervour during his everyday life. However, he hasn’t quite managed to completely stay in the shadows.

“Sometimes when I’m driving on the motorway, they come up next to you (waves his hand), right next to you for 500 metres or a kilometre,” he says. “There aren’t many interactions to be made because I go from training ground to my house, I open the gate and drive into my house.

“On Thursday when I wanted to have lunch, I thought ‘s***, I don’t have anything in my fridge’. So I needed to go to the supermarket. It was in and out, but there was someone who wanted to take photos of me. But I don’t go outside that much, so there aren’t many options to talk to me.”

Among those who stopped Slot for a quick snap was former Tranmere Rovers defender Dave Challinor, who is the current manager of League One side Stockport County.

And Slot is more than aware of what winning the title – and more pertinently, the collective experience of enjoying the moment with players and fellow supporters – means for Liverpool followers.

“Like every fan around the world, we all watched when Liverpool won the league five years ago,” he says. “I think I know a bit about what it means for this club and the fans. But to be part of it will probably be different. But we still need a point.”

Indeed, Slot is focusing only on the task in hand, although there some familiar faces will be backing the Liverpool boss on Sunday with a number of friends and family making the journey from Holland.

“They will be here but that’s not because it’s such an important game,” he explains. “They visit for a lot of games as well as this one. In Holland it is a holiday at the moment. This game was already one from three, four, five months ago that a lot of people were going to come and were asking for tickets. Many of them will be here.”

Slot faces a number of selection posers. Diogo Jota is pressing for a recall in attack while Trent Alexander-Arnold is doing likewise at right-back having come off the bench to score the winner on his return to action after injury at Leicester City last weekend.

Curtis Jones and Andy Robertson are also vying for a start in midfield and left-back respectively. And Slot is confident the experience of his players, and their form throughout the season, means they can cope with what is likely to be an emotional afternoon.

“That is something we first have to do, we have to do the job,” says the Liverpool boss. “But of course it gives us a lot of confidence the way we have played all the way through the season in sometimes difficult circumstances as well.

“In knockout stages as well, it’s not the first time we’ve needed either a win or a point and until now we’ve always shown up, not only us but the fans as well. I have all the confidence we will show up again, but I also know how unpredictable a game of football can be. That’s why we have to be so well prepared.”

Regards Liverpool’s long, illustrious history in the league championship, Slot has resisted the temptation of a deep dive on YouTube. “I don’t think that will help us or me to win the game of football on Sunday,” he says. “I watched a lot (on Thursday) when the fridge was empty before I had to go out for half-an-hour to get something, but it was mainly watching Tottenham.

“That is I think a bit smarter than watching YouTube clips – unless Tottenham would be on YouTube.”

Slot, though, is more than aware he stands within an inch of carving his own legend. “Yeah, but I prefer to get my mind on that inch and not on what happens afterwards because there is still an inch to be done,” he says.

One more final push, then it’s off to the supermarket again. After all, there’s a fridge that will need filling.