Soccer Football - Premier League - Liverpool could win the Premier League if Manchester City drop points against Chelsea - Liverpool, Britain - June 25, 2020 Liverpool fans celebrate with flares outside Anfield after Chelsea scored their second goal in their match against Manchester City Action Images via Reuters/Carl Recine
(Reuters) - Liverpool won the last of their 18 First Division titles in the 1989-90 season but the decline of an ageing team had already started in the wake of the Hillsborough stadium disaster.
There was a sense of inevitability about the team's empire crumbling when the new campaign started, as the Anfield club's former Scotland defender Steve Nicol recalled.
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