Liverpool Win Historic Premier League Title

Liverpool are finally league champions - 30 years on from their last triumph

Liverpool's history boys have finally secured the Premier League title as they become domestic champions for the first time in 30 years.

Manchester City had to beat Chelsea on Thursday night but failed to do so, handing title glory to the Reds and ensuring a wild night of celebrations in Merseyside.

Manager Jurgen Klopp has masterminded a near perfect season after 28 wins and two draws from 31 games, with just one defeat. The likes of Sadio Mane, Mo Salah and captain Jordan Henderson led the way en route to this historic moment.
Kevin De Bruyne's stunning free-kick pegged the Blues back but Willian fired home a penalty to earn a huge three points and send Liverpool fans wild.

WE’RE PREMIER LEAGUE CHAMPIONS!! 🏆 pic.twitter.com/qX7Duxoslm

— Liverpool FC (Premier League Champions 🏆) (@LFC) June 25, 2020

And now, with seven games remaining, the Kop faithful can finally breathe easy after months of stress with the season on the brink of being cancelled during the enforced break.

Klopp will now go down in Anfield folklore after guided Liverpool to that elusive Premier League crown - 11,016 DAYS in the making.

Time and time again, talented Liverpool squads promised much only to falter at the final hurdle.

The Reds last won the league in the 1989-90 season under Kenny Dalglish, with John Barnes at the peak of his powers with a superb 22 goals that year.

But since then it's been a bleak three decades for Liverpool fans, domestically speaking.

This was a season for the ages and for the faithful of Liverpool Football Club. It has been an incredible year of magnificent achievement culminating tonight in capturing the Premier League title.

— John W. Henry (@John_W_Henry) June 25, 2020

In that time, Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester City have won multiple league titles - with Blackburn and Leicester even securing Premier League glory.

The Merseyside giants have NEVER finished in the bottom half of the Premier League

They have always been consistent in that regard, always in the hunt for a Champions League spot - or Europa League in a "bad" season, by their standards.

The thrilling 1995-96 season was Liverpool's first big chance to secure a first Premier League title.

They finished third, despite pushing champions Manchester United and second-placed Newcastle all the way.

Who could forget that 4-3 thriller at Anfield, leaving Toon boss Kevin Keegan slumped over the advertising hoardings after Stan Collymore's last-gasp winner.

You have to fast forward to the 2001-02 season for Liverpool to go one better, finishing second.

Despite Michael Owen scoring 29 goals that season, the Reds never looked likely to overthrow a strong Arsenal team, who ran out comfortable winners.

In a decade of frustratingly sub-par players and even more dreary showings, Liverpool would have to wait until 2008-09 to finally look like a Premier League worthy team.

That year saw Liverpool beat Man Utd 4-1 at Old Trafford, before thrashing Real Madrid 4-0 in their very next game.

An exciting midfield of Steven Gerrard, Javier Mascherano and Xabi Alonso - complemented with Fernando Torres in his prime - looked likely to win.

But seven draws from ten games between November and January that season meant they left themselves too much to do - ultimately falling four points short of old rivals Man Utd.

For the following four seasons, Liverpool simply fell apart - finishing seventh, sixth, eighth and seventh again, under the likes of Roy Hodgson and Kenny Dalglish.

June 26, 2020