Liverpool are Premier League champions.

A mere 30 years after the club last won the league title, Jürgen Klopp has finally brought home the holy grail.

But what does the end to this drought mean to Liverpool supporters?

Under Bill Shankly, Bob Paisley, Joe Fagan and then Kenny Dalglish, Liverpool dominated domestically and in Europe.

From 1972 to 1990, the club won the First Division title 11 times as well as picking up four European Cups.

Anfield had become home to one of the biggest clubs in the world that had dominated for two decades and there was no reason to think that was about to end..

The Liverpool team going into the 1990/91 season still had Ian Rush, Peter Beardsley and John Barnes in its ranks but they didn’t win the league.

They didn’t win it again for another 30 years.

There have been close calls since; Rafa Benítez had a fighting chance in 2008/09 before he started talking about facts, then there was 2013/14, when it looked all but certain until THAT Demba Ba goal.

The quest for the 19th league title has consumed the club ever since.

Liverpool haven’t always been fighting at the top end of the division since 1990, there have been league finishes in 6th, 7th and 8th.

And there have been false dawns.

When Gérard Houllier guided the club to a treble in 2001, there were expectations of a title tilt the very next season. Everything became about bringing back the ‘holy grail’.

Liverpool could still produce good teams and then there would be major signings most summers that would be classed as the ‘missing piece’. The guys that would make the Kop successful again.

Stan Collymore, Paul Ince, Harry Kewell, Robbie Keane. Talk about false dawns.

And after years of too much optimism, after referring to every upcoming campaign as ‘our year’, Liverpool have finally done it. This year has been their year.

Last season could’ve been the knockout blow to supporters.

After losing just one game all season and amassing an incredible 97 points, Liverpool missed out on the title on the last day of the season to Manchester City.

The 2018/19 campaign was excruciating. Every single matchday from 1 to 38 felt crucial, with the sense that any slip-up would be costly. Ultimately, it was.

That’s why City’s defeats to Norwich City and Wolves early on this season felt huge to Liverpool fans.

Klopp and co. were ready for another campaign of title shootouts every single weekend, but 2019/20 has turned out a little bit different.

Instead, this remarkable team has produced perhaps the best ever season the Premier League has ever seen. To date, they’ve won 28 of their 31 games.

Any die-hard Red will tell you this wasn’t how it was meant to be won.

Liverpool always do it the hard way, dosed with pure drama. Just look at the 2005 Champions League win.

It makes no sense for Liverpool to have won the league title with such a huge points gap and relative ease.

It actually made more sense that a global pandemic broke out and threatened the validity of the season. The twists of March and April were far more in keeping with the fear and panic fans have grown accustomed to.

The coronavirus outbreak means that supporters won’t get to witness Jordan Henderson lift the Premier League trophy in person.

However, there will be families celebrating together in some sense. Friends connected in some way. The Liverpool family finally enjoying being champions.

There was a feeling that the current situation might ruin the celebrations, but it didn’t. Because Liverpool are Premier League champions. And they won it at a canter.

Trent Alexander-Arnold, Andy Robertson, Sadio Mané amongst many others have produced a remarkable season that deserves the recognition it will now receive. This is still a Liverpool team that will go down in history, and could still break Manchester City’s 100-point record in the remaining games.

Liverpool fans will always remember their 19th title, just not in the way they would have imagined.

The quest now turns to equalling Manchester United’s record 20 top flight titles in English football. Liverpool are closing in on them and that bloody perch.