Chelsea, Liverpool’s main rivals for this year’s Premier League crown, travel to Anfield on April 27 for their 36th game of the season.
The same happened in April 1990.
And Liverpool thrashed them 4-1.
A similar result this year would make Brendan Rodgers’ Liverpool unstoppable.
In 1990, goals from Ian Rush, Ronnie Rosenthal and two from Steve Nicol were too much for the club from Stamford Bridge whose star players that year included Kerry Dixon and Craig Burley.
Chelsea finished the First Division season in fifth place, 19 points behind Liverpool who were nine points clear of Aston Villa in second.
Manchester United finished in 13th place, another echo of the dismal season they are having this year.
Kenny Dalglish was player/manager in 1989/90 and led the victory parade through his cherished adopted city a day later, having guided a star-studded squad including the likes of John Barnes, Peter Beardsley, Alan Hansen, Ray Houghton, Steve McMahon, Ronnie Whelan, Bruce Grobbelar, Jan Molby and to a lesser extent Glenn Hysen.
The year in general was a tumultuous one in British history.
Petrol cost about 42p per litre, beer was £1.06 a pint, while a loaf of bread was just 46p and a pint of milk would set shoppers back 31p.
Inflation ran at 9.4 per cent and interest rates were peaking at a whopping 15 per cent: Britain was hurtling towards an economic crash.
In politics, Margaret Thatcher was in the last phase of her premiership, with the poll tax riots in Trafalgar Square in March of that year sounding the alarm bells for Tory MPs.
She exited Downing Street in November 1990.
Elsewhere, the BSE crisis for Britain’s beef industry was taking hold, but that did not prevent minister John Gummer from publicly feeding a burger to his unsuspecting five-year-old daughter.
Other headlines in the world of sport included Stephen Hendry becoming the youngest ever world snooker champion, while later that year, Arsenal captain Tony Adams was sent to jail for drink driving.
Millwall finished bottom of the First Division and were relegated alongside Charlton Athletic and Ron Atkinson’s Sheffield Wednesday.