Liverpool needed one thing to achieve immortality, and only 440 words can sum it up – Liverpool.com

One. More. Thing.

Liverpool needed that one more thing to end their 30-year wait, to start the moment you have dreamed of for so long.

The one thing which sees us all come together, in a time when we have been forced apart, and behold the kings of England. Bootle to Bangkok. Mossley Hill to Melbourne. Old Swan to New York City. Anfield is everywhere. In our living rooms and gardens, on laptops and public parks, in our hearts and minds.

It is the thing which pops open the champagne bottles, sinks a thousand beers, and finally allows us to open the bottle of whisky, untouched since 1990, to hold the sweetest toast.

The one thing we all thought about when playing in the park. When talking on Twitter. When walking up Walton Breck Road on match day. Thinking about how it looks, how it smells, how it tastes. How it feels.

This is how it feels.

One more thing. The thing which was the topic of conversation for 30 years 30 years! at weddings, christenings, and birthday parties. Which has been the remembrance, and the solemn vow, at funerals. The one thing sees us call those loved and long-lost, and think of those no longer with us with a tearful smile. To say thank you to fathers, grandfathers and brothers. To mothers, grandmothers and sisters. This is all for them. This is all for you.

That one thing which seemed so close for so long, but sometimes seemed so far. The thing we touched before having it taken away. The thing we used to keep going, even when it was out of reach. The reason we are what we are, and we do what we do. The thing which makes Jurgen Klopp and Jordan Henderson break down on live television, makes flares glow at Anfield, and sends fireworks into the Merseyside sky.

And now youre going to believe us.

You have to believe us.

Those who revelled in the misfortune, in Steven Gerrards slip, the 3-3 with Crystal Palace, the 97-point season without the prize. Now youre going to believe us.

Those who wrote off Mohamed Salah from day one, said Virgil van Dijk was all hype, and that Jurgen Klopp wasnt the man to make it so.

Now youre going to believe us.

Those who have cried for null and void, to cancel this season, that this will have an asterisk against it forever.

Now you really are going to believe us.

One more thing. Liverpool got it, and the time for believing is through. It is now time to live it.

Stop believing. Start living.

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