Liverpool are officially the Champions of England!
Yeap, you read that right. It has finally happened after so many decades of heartache and lost love. But fortune favours the bold, and Liverpool were bold enough to keep fighting on even after years of heartbreak.
As their anthem You’ll Never Walk Alone proudly says, “when you walk through the storm, keep your head held high.”
And they sure held their heads high last night, Liverpool are high aloft in the clouds right now, deserving kings of England.
Liverpool clinched the title last night after Manchester City lost 2-1 to Chelsea at Stamford Bridge, which means it is mathematically impossible for City to catch up to Liverpool in the league – effectively ending Liverpool’s 30 years title drought, with 7 whole games to spare.
To put this into perspective – since the last time Liverpool won the league, Peter Schmeichel signed for Manchester United, won the title 5 times then retired, had a son named Kasper who grew up and won the title himself with Leicester City back in 2016.
That’s how long the wait has been and this title win means so much to Liverpool fans all around the world.
In the last 12 months, Liverpool have won the Champions League, the Uefa Super Cup and Fifa Club World Cup, reestablishing themselves as the powerhouse of modern football with manager Jurgen Klopp acting as the Yoda to the Reds’ Luke Skywalker.
Liverpool legend Kenny Dalglish told BT Sport that, “Jurgen has been fantastic and epitomises everything Liverpool Football Club stands for,”
“And it’s not just a one-off, last year they came within a point of it and this year they have only lost once.”
On whether he can sum up his emotions after Liverpool were crowned champions, Klopp mentions, “No, unfortunately not because if I tried to start talking about it [how I feel] again I will start crying again and that doesn’t work really well! I am completely overwhelmed; I don’t know, it’s a mix of everything – I am relieved, I am happy, I am proud. I couldn’t be more proud of the boys.”
He also added, “I couldn’t have dreamed of something like that and I never did before last year, honestly. We were not close enough three years ago, a year ago we were really close… what the boys have done in the last two-and-a-half years, the consistency they show is absolutely incredible and second to none.”
On the significance of ending the 30 year title drought, Klopp states that, “You know it better than I do! Thirty years ago… 30 years ago… I was 23, so I didn’t think too much about winning a title with Liverpool, to be honest! I had no skills for that! Thirty years later I am here and because of the great staff I have, it is unbelievable. Tonight, you see them all together.”
Congratulations Liverpool FC, you are truly deserving winners of the Premier League.
Watch the heart-tugging video below of what winning the title means to the Liverpool fans and club.