Mohamed Salah will be attempting to win a first Afcon with Egypt
What hits you most in Cairo, after the noise, is the sheer number of people.
Egypt has a population of about 120 million. Its capital city is home to 23 million.
For context, the population of Liverpool is just under one million.
Come to appreciate that and only then do you begin to understand the scale of national fury that followed when Mohamed Salah gave his incendiary interview on 6 December, claiming Liverpool had "thrown him under the bus".
