Signing Rosenthal and reeling in Villa: the last time Liverpool won the title | Scott Murray

With Jürgen Klopp’s team on the brink of becoming Premier League champions we look back at the 1989-90 season

You would have got good odds in 1990, as Alan Hansen hoisted the Football League’s championship trophy into the Anfield air, on Liverpool waiting 30 years to become champions of England again.

But here we are, very much at the business end of a three-decade quest for title No 19. Jordan Henderson – let’s go out on a limb here – will follow in Hansen’s footsteps soon enough, and when he does, the historical baggage of No 18 will be cut loose for ever, the 1989-90 campaign quietly slipping away into the mists of time.

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