When El Niño began to strike

How Fernando Torres, aided by Steven Gerrard, took the Premier League by storm in his debut season in 2007/08.

"He was easily the best player I have ever played with in my career. I loved him. When he approached and said he wanted out, it was like a knife to the heart." - Steven Gerrard on Fernando Torres

Liverpool’s streets hummed with Spanish flair in the summer of 2007 as one of the continent’s hottest properties, in the form of a 23-year-old headband-donning…