I don’t always get my words out right .. but I’m gonna give it a bash right now ... I’ve been a red for 40 years now ... and I’m not a scouser .. I’m about 20 mins down the East Lancs .. floating between the mancs and the beautiful koppite reds

Growing up I wasn’t the only Liverpool fan ... they were a successful team and had many fans all over the place .. but where I lived ... it was a mix of Utd and LFC fans and even Everton fans ...

Liverpool were riding high and it was a great time to be a red .. The king was manager .. and that team was something else .. Barnes .. Aldridge ..Rush ... Beardsley .Being banned from Europe was a great burden and that team .. I’m sure would have done well in on the continent

So .. it’s 1990 ... I’ve just got my first serious girlfriend ... I have a paper round .. and I delivered milk four mornings a week ... and LFC have just won the title for the 18th time ...
life was good ... life was sweet ...
We were gonna win again next year ... surely

I remember hearing the news at school ... The king had resigned .. surely not ... He was LFC .. and I had that twisted hurting feeling in my gut ... and a lot of gloating Utd fans ready to stick the knife in ...

So Souness came in ... a legend in his own right .. and everyone believed the man for the job ... I have to admit even then .. it never felt right him being manager ... a great player and legend of the club .. but he never felt to me to be an LFC manager.

We missed out on the league .. and then won the FA cup in 92 ... Winning cups is fantastic and Wembley was always Anfield South ... But Souness wanted his own players in and his own style ...
and down the east lancs and revolution was happening

Fergie was quietly building an empire .. a mix of youth and experience ... and it was .. for a Liverpool fan ... extremely painful to watch ... in the seasons that followed we always believed we’d be there or there abouts .. sometimes maybe .. not really believing it

Wenger arrived at Arsenal .. and bar Blackburn , bankrolled by a millionaire fan , and led by own king ... the title became a fight between the Gunners and Utd ... we were left to fight for scraps.. we had some good players .. but consistency has left us ... it was hard to bare.

The seasons went by .. Utd winning .. Arsenal winning ... the jibes from an ever increasing mob of rival fans ... we’d become a parody .. the “next year is our year” boys ...

When we won our own treble of cups in 2000 it was a magic moment ... undoubtedly ... but I’d have traded them all in for the league ... every single time ....
Cups are great .. the league is everything ...

Istanbul was something else ... a comeback like no other .. and I think ... a little reminder of the magic that LFC fans bring to a game ... that passion that can’t be put into words .. that feeling you only get being a red .

So the seasons continue to roll by ... we came oh so close on a few occasions .. and that lot down the road still having success twisted the knife ever deeper... and then the oil baron arrived at Chelsea ...

Another billionaire to back roll a club to success ... and we were falling further down the pecking order ... Then the nightmare of H&G ... The Waldorf and Statler of football ownership .. and I still pin the blame on David Moores for that particular bit of madnes

Our club was reduced to signing freebies who never really wanted to play for us .. and a manager who never really fitted ... who’s style of play was pretty much against how LFC had ever played ... and the realisation .. the owners were piling massive debts into the club..

City .. were sold to another oil billionaire .. and he thought nothing at throwing his pocket change at players to make his club champions ... Our club was sinking and everyone else seemed to be on the up ... and the pain was very real indeed ....

So the worst was to happen ... LFC were in the financial brink .. driven to near bankruptcy by a pair of inept fools who kept referring to the club as a “franchise” ... Was the worse gonna happen ? It really felt that way at the time ... Dark days ... very .... but then ..

Rumours of a take over .. but .. again ... American ones ... but ones who knew sport .. ones who owned the Boston Red Sox ... Was this gonna be different ?? Are we to be saved ?? They kicked Roy out and reinstalled the King as manager ..
To me .. this was everything

Sure they made a few mistakes in the transfer market .. but they learned quickly .. and working behind the scenes they transformed the club on the brink .. to a club that worked like a finely tuned machine ...

The king moved upstairs and Rodgers was brought in ... money was spent and the team ... well .. the team came oh so close again ...
A pain we’d felt maybe one too many times now ...

Rodgers did well ... and at the time I really thought we’d do it ... but sadly it didn’t work out .. and those shrewd owners has already sounded out a replacement .... a man who think every LFC wanted to be at our club .. Enter Jurgen Norbert Klopp

From that first press conference it felt right ..he knew the club .. he knew the passion the fans had and the disappointment we’d carried for years ... he set to work ..bringing in his own players .. and a style of football that was what every fan who lived football wants to see

The season that followed ... a CL final in Kiev agasint a giant of a team in Real Madrid .. we were back were we always belonged .. and although the loss was a sickening twist of a knife .. I still felt things were turning in our favour

So what does a a truly great team do when you’ve lost a CL final ... you go out the season after and remedy it ... but that CL semi agasint Barcelona ... will no doubt go down in history as the greatest performance Anfield has EVER SEEN .....

Another CL final .. this time in Madrid .. an all English final ... Spurs .. who themselves had made a fantastic comeback in the semi final .... it wasn’t a great game .. it didn’t matter.. it doesn’t matter .. Big Ears was on his way back to Anfield ... and we were pushing hard

In the league .. it was oh so close .. so heartbreakingly close .. but .. we missed out again ... the pain offset by that shiny CL trophy .. and .. as I’ve said .. cups are great .. the league is everything

So . using that mentality they used to win the CL from losing the previous final ... they attacked the league .. in a way that I think surprised everyone .. rivals and us fans alike ... playing the kinda football .. that gives you wet dreams .. and turns doubters into believers

And when you throw in a super cup .. and a world club champions cup along the way ... The red machine were sweeping all before them ... and it was a joy to hear the saltiness and bitterness of rival fans who’d given us so much grief over the last 30 years

And so the story ends .. on the 25 June .. during a season tht was marred by a pandemic ... but oh so many highs .... city lost at Chelsea .. and the dream became reality ....

Liverpool are champions ....
And 30 years vanished into history ...