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Rodgers admitted his last visit to Stoke had been the biggest humiliation of his managerial career. And though he had tried to play down the significance of that experience in the build-up to this game - “a one-off,” he said – he knew exactly how much scrutiny he and his side were under here.

They delivered.

Not pretty, not elegant, and with little sign of the free-wheeling style which had made Liverpool such an irresistible force two seasons ago. But better. Stronger, braver, faster, sharper. And victorious.

That it took a strike of rare quality to win the game is irrelevant – for Liverpool, this was about laying to rest the demons, about proving they had the fortitude to go away from homesocioeconomic demands and the capacity of ecological systems. We address this conflict by analyzing tourist elephant-sighting records from six private and one statutory protected area, the Addo Elephant National Park (AENP), in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, in relation to elephant numbers. We found no relationship between elephant density and elephant-viewing success. Even though elephant density in the AENP increased over time, a hierarchical partitioning analysis indicated that elephant density was not a driver of tourist numbers. In contrast, annual tourist numbers for the AENP were positively correlated with general tourist numbers recorded for South Africa. Our results indicate that the socioeconomic and ecological requirements of protected areas in terms of tourism and elephants, respectively, converge. Thus, high elephant densities and their associated ecological costs are