‘That one still hurts, particularly because it cost us the title. It was doubly sad for Stevie. Being a club legend and having such bad luck, we all felt for him. The title was so close’ Martin Skrtel on Liverpool’s 2014 title near-miss

Liverpool midfielder Steven Gerrard on his knees during the Reds' Premier League game against Chelsea in April 2014.

Despite a semi-regular flow of success in Europe and in the domestic cups, Liverpool were in the midst of a two-and-a-half-decade title drought in the middle of the 2010s.

For a while during the 2013/14 campaign, it looked like Brendan Rodgers was the man to bring the title back to Anfield, with a post-Christmas 16-game winning streak seeing them move top of the Premier League table.