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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 was 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.


https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2020/04/sport/liverpoolpremierleaguetitle/

They should be crowned champions like their counterpart in France

They were going to be but for the pandemic...

Denique:
They should be crowned champions like their counterpart in France

They were going to be but for the pandemic...

But the season was not over yet, man city won the league on the last day, anything can happen in football

They should just suspend the league. No promotions, no regulations , the tv rights money should be split accordingly too if possible .

Liverpool is just so unlucky

They would wait long and wait hard

Damilare65:
But the season was not over yet, man city won the league on the last day, anything can happen in football

They should just suspend the league. No promotions, no regulations , the tv rights money should be split accordingly too if possible .

Liverpool is just so unlucky

This season is different. There's a wide margin which I don't see Man-City closing in.
Three consecutive seasons striving for a title in futility. Gosh!
This is going to have a psychological impact on the players if they are not crowned champions.

I just wish dz CoronaVirus will just disappear overnight.

It have destabilized the world

Make Liverpool no vex but the season should end inconclusively.

Loosepool boat about to sink. Epl should be cancelled.

Denique:
This season is different. There's a wide margin which I don't see Man-City closing in.
Three consecutive seasons striving for a title in futility. Gosh!
This is going to have a psychological impact on the players if they are not crowned champions.

Theres a pandemic out there, nobody's fault.

I heard that they will continue the season behind closed doors, if the players agree. But I'm not sure many players will want to play without crowd

I think it will be harsh to deny liverpool the league

Damilare65:
But the season was not over yet, man city won the league on the last day, anything can happen in football

They should just suspend the league. No promotions, no regulations , the tv rights money should be split accordingly too if possible .

Liverpool is just so unlucky

I don't think you know the amount Premier League will have to pay on damages if the league is void or canceled. And it is easy to say this when you are not a Liverpool fan.

Damilare65:
Theres a pandemic out there, nobody's fault.

I heard that they will continue the season behind closed doors, if the players agree. But I'm not sure many players will want to play without crowd

The crowd is your football spice
You should see how unreal (not like it was ever real) the WWE is without the mammoth crowd cheering them on... I stopped watching right after what seemed like a child's play to ME

hardeycute:
I don't think you know the amount Premier League will have to pay on damages if the league is void or canceled. And it is easy to say this when you are not a Liverpool fan.

The virus is not ending soon, if they give liverpool trophy, the its only fair that they promote/relegate teams too , and that's not really fair too

Or they agree to play behind closed doors like I said