Thousands of football fans have made their way to Anfield stadium to pay their respects to the Liverpool forward Diogo Jota after his death in a car crash in Spain.Jota, 28, was killed when a Lamborghini he was travelling in with his younger brother,

Opposite the famous ‘ Liverpool Memorial’ - dedicated to those 97 fans who lost their lives At Hillsborough on 15th April 1989 - on a small stretch of grass on the Anfield Main Stand concourse known as ‘97 Avenue’ dozens of black buckets were laid out to hold fans flowers.

As a child Diogo Jota idolized Cristiano Ronaldo. In a career that took him to soccer stardom, he would go on to call the Portugal great a teammate and win some of the sport’s biggest trophies.