The club football across the globe has witnessed disruption due to novel coronavirus pandemic. This alone has informed the call for the voiding of the Premier League. However, some pundits are of the view that “safety should come first” ahead of anything, hence, the league should be voided while some have challenged such view, claiming that Liverpool deserves to be crowned champion of the Premier League.

Gary Gillespie doesn’t remember how he and his teammates celebrated Liverpool winning the English first division title in 1990. “We probably got together and had a few drinks and reminisced about the season,” the former Liverpool defender tells CNN, chuckling at his hazy recollection.

There was little reason to especially savor that year’s yield, Liverpool’s 18th league title and Gillespie’s third in five seasons because winning was what the club did. Springtime in Liverpool was the season for picking up trophies.

There were satisfaction and relief, an uplift to the red half of the city after a heartbreaking decade, but not the intoxicating hit on the senses that usually comes with the glory of being the best in the land.

Liverpool, it was assumed, would do it all again in the seasons to follow, or come close at least. No one knew the 1989/90 campaign was an ending, a full stop on what had been an unforgettable sentence in English football history.

“Everybody was used to winning and maybe took it for granted, and, anytime you take anything for granted in life, sometimes it comes back and smacks you in the face,” says Gillespie, “and that’s exactly what happened because we’re talking about this 30 years down the line, and Liverpool haven’t managed to win a title since.”

This year was supposed to be different. Jurgen Klopp’s men were 25 points ahead of nearest challengers Manchester City, within two victories of winning English football’s biggest prize, before the coronavirus pandemic caused the world to pause.

As the 30th anniversary of the club’s last league title success is marked, the wait continues. Agonizing, uncertain, with the story of the club’s revival missing its final page.

The docks, once the heartbeat of Liverpool’s prosperity, have been in decline since the 1970s. Manufacturing is shrinking, economic stagnation is sharp, the population is in decline, inner-city homes are falling into decay and unemployment is high. The city is also the first in the UK to be hit by the heroin epidemic that will go on to wreck a generation.

“Liverpool was being forced on its knees,” lifelong Liverpool supporter and retired academic Gordon Jenkins, 61, tells CNN. “I remember Chelsea fans used to wave £20 notes at us and say, ‘we’ve got loads of money.’”

On a red-hot July day in 1981, thousands of well-wishers lined London’s streets to cheerily wave Union flags in celebration of Charles and Diana’s wedding in the English capital. Two-hundred miles away, Liverpool was burning. Appalling economic conditions, combined with tensions between the police and the African-Caribbean community, had exploded into anger, rapidly descending into nine days of disorder which resulted in hundreds of injuries, arrests and one death.

“This was a city without leadership,” wrote Michael Heseltine, the cabinet minister who would go on to construct a framework to revive Liverpool, in his autobiography.

In the aftermath of the unrest, Thatcher’s closest ministers talked of a “managed decline” of the city, National Archives files would reveal in 2011, with Thatcher’s finance minister, Geoffrey Howe, warning: “We must not expend all our limited resources in trying to make water flow uphill.”

It was during this decade Liverpudlians came to see themselves as outsiders, separate from the rest of Britain. Thatcher had polarized and radicalized. A broken working-class city which, historically, had not always leaned to the political left turned red.

But during these divisive times the people had football, two of the country’s outstanding teams in Liverpool and Everton. The beautiful game gave Liverpudlians heroes and hope. Football, says Jenkins, was, and still is, “inexorably woven into the fabric of why we are who we are.”

SOURCE: https://theupdates.net/liverpool-agonizing-wait-for-a-first-premier-league-trophy/

THE VILLAGE PEOPLE OF SADIO MANE HAS BEEN NECK BENT ON DESTROYING HIS CAREER BUT COULDN'T SUCCEED, THEY FELT DESTROYING THE CHANCES OF HIS TEAM WINNING THE LEAGUE WOULD DO... RESULTING TO THIS.

BUT I SAY; THEY SHALL NOT STILL SUCCEED.
LIVERPOOL MUST CARRY THIS CUP, EVEN IF IT MEANS COMING THIRD