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No, that is not the point I am making.
They indeed won the league three more times after that and their 1988 side was indeed a thing of beauty but we also won it again in '87 and Arsenal started winning it again after a long absence.
The era of their domination had passed.
Without Kendall's Everton side to stop them they would have notched up up five or six titles on the trot going into the the Michael Thomas game.
Every time they weren't champions in that era they were runner up to either EFC or Arsenal.
So but for Kendall and Michael Thomas we would have been looking at a title winning sequence of Scottish proportions as they would have in all likelihood won the title every year between 1982 and 1990.....maybe even beyond that as the shadow they would have cast cowed the other teams into submission before a ball was kicked.
One of the reasons they had so much success in the decade from the mid seventies to 1985 was the fact that the three other traditional powerhouses of English football, Everton, Arsenal and United, had fallow periods and a long gap since their last championship trophy.
Ipswich Town and Forest were their closest challengers for much of that era.
Everton's reawakening under Howard in the mid 80s stopped a juggernaut in its tracks.
So in my view the day Everton won the league title in 1985 was the beginning of the end of a decade of Liverpool's domination of English football.
Fergie was late on the scene and they were already off their perch when he started collecting league titles in 1993.
Dalglish had walked after the 4-4 Derby, Arsenal again and a Cantona inspired Leeds were champions before Ferguson got in on the act.
By that time we were in the EPL era they were well knocked off their perch
Either way just thank God they were ! Souness definitely helped things along too. Just glad my lad hasn't had to go through what we went through 70's and early 80's!
