If you've watched the team you support win the league so frequently (and be in the title race pretty much every single season for the last 20 years) you definitely get a better feel of what the big moments are and the turning points in a campaign. Even the ones we came up short in help add to the fans experience.
Liverpool were in pole position, everything was with them, that late penalty to beat Fulham was huge, it was only a matter of when, not if they'd win the league by the time a weak Chelsea team rolled into Anfield. Then he slipped.
Actually I think you're wrong. What has happened to the Scousers happened to us after 1968. In the 70s as they were reaching their peak, they made a big point of promoting how they got rid of the old dead wood. They meant Shankly but it was also a direct smirk at Matt and our board. They blamed our continual failings on Matt losing the plot and preventing the team from breaking with the past. It took Tommy Doc to break the squad but it took Fergie to finally manage Matt's legacy and mould it into a successful modern squad.
The Scouses suddenly plummeted from 1992. There are notions that it was in parallel with the 92 back pass rule, or suddenly losing the attraction for top players, or managers. They also collected an awful lot of cultural baggage like Heyzel and Hillsborough. Slippy came along and was believed to be the Phoenix from the ashes who would carry the club back to the dizzy heights once again. The comparison might be with how Robbo came to represent our club - both in many respects **** figures emerging when their clubs were mediocre.
The comparisons between the periods of failure are quite interesting. We regularly turned the Scousers over and beat them in 1977 cup final but they won the league time after time. While we've been on top they won a few games but we won the campaign. It is noticeable that the only time their squad looks anything like as capable of their old teams is when they play us. When they were top they had a system a spine of superior players.
In these last years they have been orientated toward the pivotal single player. It never works, as it didn't for us with Robbo. Just as Robbo failed mostly through injury, Slippy failed mostly with a burden he was no longer capable of shouldering. They smirked over Matt dominating OT but have allowed Slippy to become the symbol of the club. Rodgers has had to deal with that problem just as Tommy Doc had to deal with Best, Law and Charlton.
For all my dislike of the bin men I don't want them to end up like that shower in Yorkshire. If they get a reasonable couple of spine players and find a proper system they will kick on.