Holding the 1989/90 League Trophy, a long, long time ago... (Getty Images)

It’s been a long time, that’s for sure, since the dominating days of Shankly and Paisley. Brendon Rodgers has a long way to go before he can ever be mentioned in the same breath as those two legends, but with only 6 games remaining in the Premier League this season, he has the chance to do what no manager has done since Kenny Dalglish, way back in the days of the old First Division: Win the League with Liverpool FC. Win out and they lift the trophy, and with games against Manchester City and Chelsea to come, nobody can say they don’t deserve it if they do it either. Luis Suarez scores brilliant goals in his sleep, Stevie G is one of the greats of the modern English era, Sturridge has become a consistent threat, Henderson is among the most improved players in the league. They are 13 league games unbeaten with an 8 game winning streak. It’s been a long time between drinks but if they carry on their current form, the Reds are in for their first league title since the 1989/90 season. Here's some context as to how long ago that was.

28 April 1990

On this date, Liverpool beat QPR 2-1, thanks to goals from Ian Rush and John Barnes. That same afternoon, rivals Aston Villa can only draw with Norwich 3-3, meaning Liverpool lift their 18th and to date most recent Football League title.

As of Then:

Raheem Sterling, Coutinho, Jon Flanaghan, Jordan Henderson and Victor Moses were all yet to be born.

Liverpool had only 3 non-British or Irish players in their first team squad.

Sir Alex Ferguson wouldn’t win his first trophy with Manchester United for another few weeks (the 1990 FA Cup Final). United finished 13th in the League that year, with just 48 points.

Current EPL teams Fulham, Swansea, Cardiff and FA Cup holders Wigan were all still in the third division. Milwall, Coventry, Wimbledon and Luton Town were all playing top division footy.

Liverpool had just won their 10th League title in 14 years. That was nearly 24 years ago now.

Things That Have Happened Since Then:

Nelson Mandela was elected President of South Africa, and the Apartheid regime was abolished.

Nelson Mandela died.

Margaret Thatcher resigned as Prime Minister of the UK.

The Soviet Union was dissolved, ending the Cold War.

Germany was united as a single country.

Yugoslavia is no longer a country at all.

Pluto is no longer a planet.

The internet happened.

CD-ROM drives become the standard for personal computers. Also people now had personal computers.

Important business people now carried pagers around. Then they stopped doing that, and all bought cellphones. Now those cellphones have Bluetooth headsets.

Portable CD players, and later MP3 players, made youths even more isolated and non-communicative.

On that topic: Grunge happened. As did the films Clueless, Dazed and Confused and American Pie, and the TV shows My So Called Life and Freaks and Geeks.

There have been 4 Presidents since that time.

One of them, Bill Clinton, is caught in an extra-marital scandal, allegedly with White House intern Monica Lewinski. Clinton declares he “did not have sexual relations with that woman”. He finishes his term in office.

Terrorists destroy the World Trade Centre on September 11 2001, killing almost 3000 people. Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda claim responsibility. A worldwide manhunt for Bin Laden commences, which sends him into hiding. He is finally found and executed in 2011. They made a movie about it. It won Oscars.

They killed Saddam Hussein.

Dolly the sheep became the first successful living clone.

The international space station began construction. The existence of black holes was confirmed.

The Gulf War ends. The Iraq War begins. So does the Afghanistan War. Oil is coveted, shoes are thrown. Still no sign of those Weapons of Mass Destruction though.

The whole OJ Simpson thing happened.

Mother Teresa died.

Princess Diana died. We still haven’t gotten over it.

Gay people can get married now. In most places, anyway.

Schindler’s List, Silence of the Lambs, Forrest Gump, Titanic, Lord of the Rings, Avatar, Toy Story and Lion King are all made, released and won a bunch of awards.

Marty Scorsese finally won an Oscar. Still no word on when DiCaprio’s is coming.

JK Rowling writes a kid’s novel called Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. It’s relatively successful. She writes a couple sequels.

Mel Gibson goes from one of the biggest action stars in the world to the anti-Semitic lunatic we know today.

F.R.I.E.N.D.S. is pitched, picked up, cast, piloted, renewed, becomes the biggest sitcom in the world, ends. Spoiler alert: Ross and Rachel get together in the end.

Kurt Cobain, Whitney Houston, Tupac, Michael Jackson, Biggie Smalls, Heath Ledger, Freddie Mercury, George Harrison, James Brown, Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, Bernie Mac, Marlon Brando, Ronald Reagan (and many more) all die.

Robert Downey Jr got cool, then got real messed up on drugs. Then was kinda washed up for a bit but now he’s cool again.

Similar story for Mickey Rourke, only without the happy ending.

American Idol.

Reality TV.

Britney Spears, 'N Sync, The Spice Girls and The Backstreet Boys.

Mariah Carey released her first studio album.

Timothy Dalton is no longer James Bond. That honour goes to Pierce Brosnan. Until he is no longer James Bond either and Daniel Craig is instead.

The Playstation is released.

Sonic the Hedgehog is created. As is Crash Bandicoot. Super Mario remembers Liverpool’s last league title. But Pikachu doesn’t.

America elects a black President.

There was a Global Financial Recession.

The first ever Wallmart opened.

Lance Armstrong got cancer. Lance Armstrong recovered from cancer. Lance Armstrong won a million Tour de France’s. Lance Armstrong was for a time the most revered athlete in the world. Lance Armstrong went on Oprah and now everyone hates him cos he’s a cheat.

Globalisation, whatever that means.

Scientists put a robot on Mars. And shoot particles at each other in underground Switzerland.

Google, Yahoo, USB drives, iPods, digital cameras, broadband, file sharing, email, Microsoft and text messaging all become things.

Wembley Stadium is a whole lot bigger now.

Batman became cool again.

Led Zeppelin reformed. For a couple hours.

The Grateful Dead broke up. The Rolling Stones are still going though.

They made some more Star Wars movies. They sucked. But they’re gonna make more…

The World Wrestling Federation was outed as fake, disappointing young kids and gullible adults the world around. Now it’s WWE.

Also probably as a result, angry young men turned to UFC instead, where people actually try to murder each other in a cage. That’s what it looks like, anyway.

The Sopranos, Deadwood, Breaking Bad and The Wire all started, were brilliant, and ended.

Hunter S Thompson, John Updike and David Foster Wallace all died. People started reading Dan Brown books for some reason.

About a million controversies involving South Park and Family Guy.

Also, The Simpsons became the biggest show in the world. Then it stopped being any good and started killing characters off for ratings and relying on lazily written guest stars. But we’ll always have the golden era (Seasons 3-8, which ran from 1992-1997). Bart and Homer were around when Liverpool last won a title, but they looked like this.

Peter Shilton was still playing for England. As were Stuart Pearce, Gary Lineker, John Barnes and Paul Gascoine. Plus a young bolter named David Seaman.

Roger Federer became the greatest tennis player ever. Tiger Woods did what he did, then did who he did, now does whatever he does.

Michael Phelps and Usain Bolt.

David Beckham.

Two different Ronaldos.

The Steroid Era.

Zinedine Zidane headbutted Marco Materazzi in the World Cup Final, leaving him lying on the ground, next to our jaws.

New Zealand won another Rugby World Cup.

The All Whites qualified for another football World Cup.

Sylvester Stallone is no longer a badass action hero. Or at least he’s an old, washed up one.

Arnold Schwarzenegger became the Governor of California. No, seriously, he did. He also made Terminator 2.

The Dallas Cowboys, Washington Redskins, St Louis Rams and Tampa Bay Buccaneers have all won Super Bowls.

The NZ Warriors now exist, and have made 2 NRL Grand Finals.

Blackburn Rovers have won the Premier League.

Oh, also the Premier League was formed.

Manchester United have won 13 English Premier League titles in that time.

Chelsea have gone through 18 managers.

Manchester City have spent £640 million (and that’s just since 2008).

Arsenal have sold basically every club captain they’ve had since then, and Theo Walcott is now their longest serving current player by appearances.

Ryan Giggs has played 962 professional games.

Liverpool have finished runners up 3 times, won a Champions League somehow, and a trio of FA Cups. But it’s been nearly 24 years since they won the biggest domestic trophy in English football.