No internet & cellphone, Madonna was hot: the last time Liverpool won the league

1990. A world without Facebook and Twitter where mobile phones were not very mobile because they were so big they couldn't fit in your pocket. A world in which the internet was still just an idea. And a world when Liverpool were champions of England.

It is 30 years this week since the opening game of the 1989-90 campaign. That is how long Liverpool supporters will have had to wait for the Reds to win the league title - if they finally manage to do it this season.

Many fans of Jurgen Klopp's side today were not alive to see Alan Hansen and Co lift the trophy. In fact, in Liverpool's current squad only James Milner, Dejan Lovren and Adam Lallana were born.

You would have to wait another eight years for Trent Alexander-Arnold to enter the world.

Klopp had only managed to earn a professional contract as a player the year prior and he was playing in front of just 5,000 people for German second-division side Rot-Weiss Frankfurt.

Ruud Gullit was the most expensive player at the time with a world-record fee of £6million, until Roberto Baggio was snapped up by Juventus from Fiorentina for £8m that summer.

You would have to times that figure by 25 to afford the current world's most expensive player, Neymar, who Paris Saint-Germain signed for £200m.

In the 1989-90 season, the margin between Liverpool and the present-day Premier League champions was 31 points as City finished 14th, five points above the relegation zone.

Aston Villa were Liverpool's closest rivals in second that year. Luton Town, Wimbledon and Coventry City were all in the top flight.

Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker was top scorer that season with 24 goals for Tottenham.

Also in 1990, Margaret Thatcher resigned as Prime Minister due to issues such as the unpopularity of the poll tax and the divisions over Europe.

Sound familiar?

Nelson Mandela walked free after 27 years in prison, Yugoslavia's communist regime collapsed, and the break-up of the Soviet Union started.

The World Wide Web was proposed a year prior and eventually came to fruition as the internet in the early 1990s.

Madonna's song Vogue was No 1 in the UK singles charts at the time. 'Look around, everywhere you turn is heartache' could not sum up better the wait that Liverpool supporters have had to endure.

Winning league titles for Liverpool was a regular occurrence in that era - they had won 11 of the 18 league championships between 1972-73 and 1989-90.

Now winning the league is a distant memory for some Reds fans, but in three decades' time we might be unearthing Theresa May's history, Lewis Capaldi's lyrics and chuckling at Neymar's minimal transfer fee.