(Reuters) - Liverpool won the last of their 18th national titles in the 1989-90 season, but the decline of an ageing team had already started in the wake of the Hillsborough disaster.
There was a sense of inevitability that the empire was crumbling as the season started, as former defender Steve Nicol recalled.
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