Liverpool will be hoping that once Premier League football is back up and running that League Championship number 19 will soon be wrapped up.
Completing our series of how the Reds previous titles were won, we look at numbers 16, 17 and 18.
Title number 16: 1985/86
P42 W26 D10 L6 F89 A37 GD +52 Pts 88
After the success of Joe Fagan's first season, Liverpool's Scouse manager's second campaign ended in tears – literally – as overcome by emotion the Reds boss cried on the runway after the aeroplane carrying his team back from the 1985 European Cup final touched down at Liverpool Airport.
Just as they had done to neighbours Everton in the league, Liverpool were runners-up to Juventus having lost 1-0 but that result seemed immaterial among the human tragedy that was Heysel with 39 spectators dead.
All English clubs received a ban from UEFA competitions and with Fagan, who was 64, retiring, the Reds looked to appoint from within again but this time their appointment came from outside the old guard of 'The Boot Room'.
The man handed the reins was Kenny Dalglish, some 30 years Fagan's junior, with the Scottish striker taking up the role of player-manager.
Liverpool's gamble of going for the unproven rookie worked though with Dalglish steering them to their only League Championship and FA Cup double to date.
With neighbours Everton reigning champions and boasting their best-ever side in this era under Howard Kendall, it was an all-Merseyside battle for top spot.
For long periods of the campaign the Reds were there or thereabouts, but it was the Blues who set the pace and looked like retaining their crown.
A 2-0 win for Everton at Anfield on left Liverpool eight points adrift of their local rivals but Dalglish's side finished strongly, winning 11 of their final 12 games.
The title race went to the wire but a goal from Dalglish himself on 23 minutes against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on May 3 ensured Everton's efforts in thrashing Southampton 6-1 at Goodison Park at the same time were in vain as despite the Blues having another game left, the Reds could not be caught.
Everton's 3-1 home victory over West Ham 48 hours later saw them leapfrog the east London side into second place but they were still two points shy of Liverpool who clinched the double by beating them 3-1 in the FA Cup final the following Saturday.
Title number 17: 1987/88
P40 W26 D12 L2 F87 A24 GD +63 Pts 90
The mid-1980s League Championship back-and-forth across Stanley Park continued – Liverpool (1984), Everton (1985), Liverpool (1986), Everton (1987) and when the pass the parcel music stopped in 1988 the title was back in the Reds hands.
Kendall had quit the Blues for Athletic Bilbao in the summer of 1987 but while Everton were copying their neighbours and appointing from within in the shape of Colin Harvey, Dalglish was busy reshaping his squad.
Although goal machine Ian Rush departed for Juventus, a quartet of new recruits bolstered the ranks in the shape of England internationals John Barnes and Peter Beardsley plus Oxford United pair Ray Houghton and lifelong Kopite John Aldridge who 'came home.'
The new-look team were utterly dominant and are fondly remembered by Liverpool fans as one of the club's best-ever sides.
The First Division was in the process of reducing the number of clubs from 22 to 20 but it was a scheme that ran over two seasons so the 1987/88 campaign bizarrely had an odd number of teams competing (21) ensuring that at least one outfit always had a blank weekend.
Dalglish's side finished unbeaten at Anfield though and only lost two games overall, their fewest ever in a top-flight season until Jurgen Klopp's Premier League runners-up of 2018/19.
A 4-0 thrashing at home to Queens Park Rangers on October 17 (their third consecutive such scoreline in a row in the First Division) put Liverpool top of the table for the first time.
Other than a period in late November when the Reds drew three straight matches and Arsenal leapfrogged them, they would be leading the way for the remainder of the season, eventually finishing nine points clear of closest challengers Manchester United.
Indeed Liverpool were unbeaten in the league all the way up to March 20 when in their 30th fixture they lost 1-0 to Everton at Goodison Park as Wayne Clarke's 14th minute goal proved the difference.
Temporarily rocked, they'd also go down 2-1 in their next away match at Nottingham Forest but from then on there would be no other blips.
The title was secured with two games to spare courtesy of a 1-1 draw against Southampton on Monday May 2 in front of 37,610 at Anfield.
Aldridge fired the Reds in front on 41 minutes and despite Rod Wallace's 68th minute equaliser, they were champions for the 17th time.
Title number 18: 1989/90
P38 W23 D10 L5 F78 A37 GD +41 Pts 79
Liverpool were rocked on and off the pitch in the space of a few weeks in 1989.
There was the sporting disappointment of losing out in the title race by the tightest of margins in the history of the top flight game in English football as they finished level on points and goal difference with Arsenal but missed out on 'goals scored' after Michael Thomas' last-gasp goal at Anfield gave the visitors the 2-0 win they needed to pip the Reds.
However, this paled into insignificance when compared to the events of the previous month with the Hillsborough disaster ultimately leading to the deaths of 96 Liverpool fans who were attending the FA Cup semi-final against Nottingham Forest at Sheffield Wednesday's home ground.
The Reds would lift the trophy after an emotionally-charged final against neighbours Everton which they won 3-2 after extra time but the off-the-field events of April 15 1989 must have course continued to have loomed large in the minds of everyone connected with the club as they went into the following season.
Liverpool, who had brought back Rush in 1988 after a single season in Serie A, started brightly though and the Welsh marksman was inevitably on the scoresheet in an incredible 9-0 demolition job of Crystal Palace on Tuesday September 12 that took the side to the top of the table for the first time.
The night also saw Aldridge bow out with a goal, coming off the bench to score a penalty in front of the Kop with his first touch of the game on 67 minutes ahead of his move to Real Sociedad.
As the nights drew in the Reds hit a sticky patch, losing three out of four league games, going down to Southampton 4-1 at the Dell, Coventry City 1-0 at Anfield and Queens Park Rangers 3-2 at Loftus Road.
A crucial 2-1 home win over defending champions Arsenal on November 26 saw Liverpool leapfrog the Gunners at the summit although they were one of four clubs all on 27 points at the time, including eventual runners-up Aston Villa and Chelsea.
From that date onwards the Reds were never outside the top two and following a 3-2 comeback victory over Southampton at Anfield on March 31, when trailing 2-1 with 17 minutes to go they eventually triumphed 3-2 to move into first place on goal difference, they remained at the summit throughout the run-in.
Liverpool's last League Championship – for now – was secured on Saturday April 28 in front of 37,758 at Anfield as they recovered from falling behind to Roy Wegerle's 14th minute strike for QPR to win 2-1 with goals from Rush on 40 minutes and a 63rd minute penalty by John Barnes.
Coupled with Villa's 3-3 draw at home to Norwich City, the Reds, who had two fixtures remaining opposed to the Midlanders' one, could not be caught and subsequent victories over Derby County (1-0) and Coventry City (6-1) would ensure they would end up finishing nine points clear.
Back then, nobody could have envisaged they'd be waiting another three decades to add to their tally.