LIVERPOOL BECOMING CHAMPIONS: ONE YEAR ON!

It was on this day 1 year ago. Lockdown had eased, the weather was getting better, the nights were getting longer but one thing occurred that a massive fanbase had been waiting 3 decades for!

At 10pm on Wednesday 25 June 2020, Liverpool Football Club was confirmed as the Champions of the Premier League for the first time in their history and League champions for the first time in 30 years.

Jurgen Klopp’s side was helped over the line after Chelsea beat Manchester City 2-1 at an empty Stamford Bridge. The result confirmed that City couldn’t mathematically catch up with Liverpool therefore the Merseyside club became Champions.

That is only 1 singular story in the novel of a season that the 2019/2020 season was. Liverpool accumulated a total of 99 points, the clubs highest league points total in its history and the second-highest points total in Premier League history.

As a Liverpool fan, I have an abundance of memories of the 2019/20 season including being confirmed champions but also lifting the league trophy at Anfield with no one in attendance inside but as the camera panned out you could see the sea of red that emanated in the surrounding area around Anfield.

The feeling of pure joy and excitement that winning the Premier League title gives you as a fan is just incomparable. Liverpool has such an emotionally driven fanbase and the majority of fans have a deep-rooted love for Liverpool and what it stands for. It is a club that does something to you as a fan that no other club does.

Since the beginning of the Jurgen Klopp era, the main aim of the club was to get the fans to believe in the club again and the key message that Klopp himself famously said was, ‘from doubters to believers.' They may only be four words but they are the most significant and defining words of the past 6 years of supporting Liverpool.

The number of unexplainable comebacks that have occurred in the past 5 to 6 years has been incredible. Most notably, beating Barcelona 4-0 in the Champions League Semi-Final to progress to the Final for the second year in a row has become one of the best comebacks in Liverpool history on a par with the comeback in Istanbul in 2005.

Jurgen Klopp has changed the mindset of Liverpool fans significantly. From fans dreading a Saturday to now waking up on Monday morning wishing it was Saturday just proves the significant impact that the German has made at the club and reignited the love that Liverpool fans possess for this club.

The 2019/20 season will be one that will be remembered for a long time yet and one that Liverpool fans especially will never forget.