The new season started with an eight-match unbeaten run, including a 9-0 thumping of Crystal Palace, but this was not a particularly dazzling Liverpool vintage. This season, however, Klopp’s men have dropped just five points. It was just something that was ingrained in us,” Gillespie explains. “It all started going wrong when Kenny left,” says Gillespie. “You put 10 months ߋn hold, you give your all for 10 months,” says Gillespie. Օn the morning of February 22, 1991, with three months remaining of the 1990/91 season, photographers, TV crews and journalists had assembled at Anfield. But neither of his two sons have experienced the joy of watching the team lift a championship trophy. The family has experienced close calls over the last three decades - second-place finishes under Rafael Benitez and Brendan Rodgers, and last season's astonishing 97-point haul which was eclipsed only by Manchester City -- but during those seasons Liverpool weren't unquestionably the best.
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