13 things that have happened since Liverpool last won the league
Liverpool sit top of the EPL table with a game remaining, and it has been an awful long time since they last tasted League glory.
Obviously, Liverpool want this league title than Champions League. They really do!
The last time the Reds lifted the trophy was 1990. Yes, 29 years ago! Despite a remarkable season they now enter the campaign's last week with the destiny of the trophy not in their hands.
Two wins for Manchester City will see them clinch the league for the first time in... a year, and ensure Liverpool's 29-year wait for glory goes on.
Twenty-nine years. 29!
A lot has changed in that time, and we have taken a look at just how much.
1. Jordan Henderson, Liverpool captain was born
Henderson was born in Sunderland on 17th June 1990, some six weeks after Liverpool hoisted the league championship at Anfield.
If he really is to be The One maybe they should have hoisted him instead, in a Lion King kind of way?
2. Seven other clubs have won EPL title. Even Leicester.
Yep, Even Leicester!
Still mad that isn't it?
3. The Premier League happened
All of it. Sky Sports, Keys, Gray, the invention of banter. The whole thing.
4. Donald Trump went from a bankruptcy lawsuit in 1991 to becoming President of the United States
President. Of. The. United. States.
5. Birth of Croatia, and their football players reached a World Cup final
In 1991, Croatia gained independence as a country, opening up a new world of cheap holiday destinations, nice beaches with sexy bikinis and hard working football players who can beat England in World Cup semi-finals. Oops!!!
6. The Schmeichels won two league titles
Peter Schmeichel was part of the team that won the league with Manchester United in 1993, and went on to win it five more times.
7. Jurgen Klopp started his Bundesliga career aged 23 years with Mainz in the 1990/91 campaign. He would play for Mainz for 11 seasons, still managed them for seven, coached Borussia Dortmund for seven more, and now here he is at Liverpool.
Boom.
8. Liverpool have added 14 major honours...Community Shield inclusive, which Guardiola does so the Reds might as well too.
9. Dramatic change in the top-flight
When Liverpool won the title in 1989/90 season, the top flight featured Aston Villa, who came second, and the likes of Wimbledon, QPR, Coventry, Luton, Charlton and Millwall in the division.
This must make you feel old, doesn't it?
10. The internet went big
After the innovation of the first internet service provider in 1989, this new-fangled thing just got bigger and bigger, until we attained the point where you're reading these words on these here pages.
11. Timothy Dalton was replaced as James Bond. You probably noticed that though didn't you? In 1994, Pierce Brosnan took over, and in 2005, Daniel Craig slipped into the tux.
12. Liverpool have hired different nine managers including caretakers. None of them, not even Roy Hodgson, could win the Holy Grail.
13. Lastly, Manchester United have won 13 league titles. But not a single league title for six years. How long until we start making lists like this about them?!

What a tragedy for Liverpool
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