Time has watered the memory, but it is time to remind yourself, now the magical song has been reached, what happened the night that their greatest rivals first arrived 20.
The Thunder rumbled. You could trace it back until Sir Alex Ferguson did an interview in the Guardian in September 2002 and the respected journalist Michael Walker told: 'My biggest challenge was Liverpool right from their F *** ING Perch. And you can print that. '
United had been ruthless and hunted the standard setting of Liverpool at 18, such as a racing horse with a wilting speed. They pulled at the level in 2009, pushed ahead in 2011 and then, in 2013, Old Trafford echoed Nietsen foref when Robin van Persie Robin van Basten became. The same Courteen's number called around Anfield on Sunday.
The Dutchman's hat-trick against Aston Villa, on April 22, 2013, confirmed the 13th title of United in 20 years. As long as football could have been the least of Liverpool's problems. Instead, they were again flooded in crisis. Hoteead Luis Suarez had bitten Chelsea defender Branislav Ivanovic the previous day.
Liverpool had disappeared for 23 years since they were champions and they were so far away when you could imagine. Brendan Rodgers tried to restore order to a team with players such as Sebastian Coates, Oesssama Assaidi, Jose Enrique and Fabio Borini.
They would end 28 points behind the United, seventh in the table. Everton was ready for them again and Liverpool was beaten from the FA Cup by Oldham in Boundary Park. Yes, the football landscape was bad, but everything was exacerbated by Suarez's last crime.
United had not only beaten Liverpool from their perch – what a way with words Ferguson had when he wanted to send a message – he had supervised in such a way that their most bitter rivals from the site had been deported and forced to leave the city.
The last summer I had been in Boston during the pre -season tour of Liverpool with some colleagues and I spent time with John W Henry, the most important figure in Fenway Sports Group – who had been the owners of the club for less than two years – in Fenway Park, the home of the Boston Red Sox.
Henry does not like to talk in public – he hardly talks private nowadays – but this specific afternoon, in one of the boxes, he answered a few questions and said: “You can't run an oil tanker as quickly as you can have a speedboat,” when asked about the situation.
When we stopped recording, Henry asked, who was accompanied by his cohort chairman Tom Werner, a few times: “What would it be like if Liverpool won the competition?” While he tried to understand the depth of feeling under the fan base.
It was explained that it was not just a dream. It had been 22 years of torment at that time. Again competition champions were the only thing that mattered. If there was one thing that FSG had to deliver, it was this price.
But did anyone ever really believe that they would do that? Henry was an advocate of Financial Fair Play, he wondered how other clubs could invest in Fortuinen almost without care. Liverpool, he was adamant, would do things after the blueprint that had been successful in Boston.
Such an attitude has put him at Loggerheads over the years with parts of the fan base.
Even last January there was anger that the club's refusal to enter the transfer market would very much cost them, but the decisions they have made, demanded the most spectacular dividends.
The most important of them was of course hired Jurgen Klopp in October 2015. Liverpool needed a manager to look ahead and stop Hanking for those days in the 1970s and 1980s who started an anchor. A club that keeps an eye on the past is wise; A club that keeps both eyes on the past blind itself.
Liverpool has been broken down slowly. Brilliant signing sessions – never forget that Manchester United asked for the figures needed to land Virgil van Dijk on the day he had his medical in Anfield – thrown away with sensible decisions and not from the path of waste.
Now they are here, restored to the top of English football. The most successful club, the mission complete.
“It's a sobering day,” said Gary Neville solemnly. “It's a huge deal. The painful thing to say is that the debate is over for a period until United becomes successful again. It should cause heartache, because it took a lot to walk for Liverpool. '
And it took a lot for Liverpool to come back. But there they are again. Restored, as Ferguson would say, to that 'F *** ING Perch'.