During the 2008 – 09 season Liverpool achieved 86 points, its highest Premier League points total, and finished as runners up to Manchester United.

They quickly established themselves in the highest division of English football and achieved a surprise FA Cup triumph in 1988 at the expense of Liverpool, English football's dominant side at the time.

Liverpool themselves achieved their best league finish since 1991, as they finished fourth in the Premier League.

On 27 September 2011, Lewis addressed the Labour Party conference in Liverpool outlining a proposal for " a new system of independent regulation " of the press and of journalists that " as other professions the industry should consider whether people guilty of gross malpractice should be struck off ", though without specifying in any detail how this might be achieved.

Mentioned in the Domesday Book, West Derby achieved significance far earlier than Liverpool itself.

He took 7 wickets for 25 against Lancashire at Liverpool on 21 June 1997, which included a hat-trick achieved after narrowly missing a hat-trick earlier in the innings.

Liverpool won nothing in 1975, but achieved another League Championship and UEFA Cup double in 1976.

It was the third time in Alonso's career that he helped his team set a new club record in terms of points gathered, while finishing in second position ( he achieved the same feat with Real Sociedad in 2002 – 03 and with Liverpool in 2008 – 09 ).

The " double " of League championship and FA Cup, achieved by Liverpool in 1986 but denied to them by Wimbledon in 1988, was again possible, with a decider against Arsenal to come at Anfield.

With virtually the last kick of the season Michael Thomas broke through the centre of the Reds defense to score thus stopping Liverpool gaining a second league and FA Cup double – something which no English club had yet achieved.

Ince's second season with Liverpool was again trophyless ( seventh place in the league meant they wouldn't even be competing in the UEFA Cup the following season ) but he achieved a personal high point when he scored a late equalizer against Manchester United at Anfield and celebrated with some ferocity in front of the Spion Kop, though it wasn't enough to deprive United of the Premier League title that formed part of their treble success.

While playing alongside Aleksandr Mostovoi, Valery Karpin, Haim Revivo, and Michel Salgado, Celta Vigo achieved historic victories such as 4 – 1 against Liverpool and 4 – 0 against Juventus in the UEFA Cup.

The status of a fully accredited institution of the University of Liverpool had been achieved in 1994.

In total, he scored 139 goals in 232 appearances for Arsenal, making him the Gunners ' joint-fifth top scorer of all time, and he was the first player ever to score 100 goals for the club, a feat he achieved in a 6-3 win over Liverpool on 7 March 1928.

Bolton were FA Cup quarter-finalists in the 1993-94 season and achieved a comfortable position in Division One, but it was the 1994-95 season which proved most memorable, as Bolton reached the final of the Football League Cup ( their first appearance in a major cup final for 37 years ), but lost 2-1 to Liverpool.

The highlight of this spell at Coventry came on 10 December 1983 when his unfancied Coventry side achieved a 4 – 0 win over Liverpool, the top English club side of the time who went on to win the league title, League Cup and European Cup that season.

Once the electrification of the line is complete, the journey time between Liverpool and Manchester will be reduced from around 45 minutes today, to 30 minutes due to the greater acceleration achieved by electric trains and the raising of the speed limit along the line from 75 to 90 mph.

Robbins achieved a Bachelor of Arts ( BA ) degree in English and Drama from Liverpool University.

Ireland had achieved quasi-independence in 1922 as the Irish Free State, the Irish Nationalist Party was effectively defunct in Ireland, yet O ' Connor continued to be elected unopposed under this label in Liverpool.

This was achieved by extending the existing Blackpool to Liverpool service.

A notable example of this was the discussion of Christian unity by the Catholic Archbishop of Liverpool, Dr. Heenan, and the Anglican Archbishop of York, Dr. Ramsey, recently appointed Archbishop of Canterbury.

The factory grounds were bordered by the Bridgewater Canal and the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.

The Reform Act 1867 extended the franchise by 938, 427 – an increase of 88 % – by giving the vote to male householders and male lodgers paying at least 10 pounds for rooms and eliminating rotten boroughs with fewer than 10, 000 inhabitants, and granting constituencies to fifteen unrepresented towns, and extra representation in parliament to larger towns such as Liverpool and Manchester, which had previously been under-represented in Parliament.

The Boston Red Sox are owned by Fenway Sports Group, who also own Liverpool Football Club of the Premier League in England.

The Honourable East India Company presented Nelson with £ 10, 000 (£ as of ) in recognition of the benefit his action had on their holdings and similar awards were made by the cities of London, Liverpool and other municipal and corporate bodies.

29. 4-5 in Liber de Caesaribus of Sextus Aurelius Victor, critical edition by H. W. Bird, Liverpool University Press, 1994, ISBN 0-85323-218-0

The opening of the Sankey Canal in 1757, followed by the Bridgewater Canal in 1761, which halved the price of coal in Liverpool and Manchester England, respectively, triggered a period of " canal mania " in Britain so that between 1760 and 1820 over one hundred canals were built.

On 25 September 1883 a test of a cable car system was held by Liverpool United Tramways and Omnibus Company in Kirkdale, Liverpool.

Gary Desmond's Candy's Room, coming from Liverpool, was the first in 1980, quickly followed by Dan French's Point Blank, Dave Percival's The Fever, Jeff Matthews ' Rendezvous, and Paul Limbrick's Jackson Cage.

The day was marred by the death of William Huskisson, the Member of Parliament for Liverpool, who was struck and killed by Rocket.

Liverpool had also pipped Everton to the title by just two points.

In 2005, Lineker was sued for defamation by Australian footballer Harry Kewell over comments Lineker had made writing in his column in the Sunday Telegraph about Kewell's transfer from Leeds United to Liverpool.

" Specialising in the import of hardwood, the company had been founded in the mid-18th century by Edmund Gardner ( b. 1721 ), an entrepreneur who would subsequently become a Freeman of Liverpool.

At some point in the next two years they moved back to England, by 1873 settling into The Glen, a large Victorian house in Blundellsands, a seaport in Lancashire, north-west England, which was developing into a wealthy suburb of Liverpool.

The cable was completed on 6 June 1929 and the first call between the Isle of Man and the outside world was made on 28 June 1929 by Lieutenant Governor Sir Claude Hill in Douglas to the Postmaster General in Liverpool.

Historically, the telephone system on the Isle of Man had been run as a monopoly by the British General Post Office, and later British Telecommunications, and operated as part of the Liverpool telephone district.

On 15 September 1830, the Liverpool and Manchester Railway was opened, the first inter-city railway in the world and was attended by Prime Minister, the Duke of Wellington.

The railway was engineered by Joseph Locke and George Stephenson, linked the rapidly-expanding industrial town of Manchester with the port town of Liverpool.

For these achievements and his style of play he was given the name King Kenny by Liverpool supporters.

On 10 August 1977, after making 320 appearances and scoring 167 goals for Celtic, Dalglish was signed by Liverpool manager Bob Paisley for a British transfer fee record of £ 440, 000.

In a career spanning 22 years, he played for Celtic and Liverpool, winning numerous honours with both.

Dalglish became player-manager of Liverpool in 1985 after the resignation of Joe Fagan, winning a further three First Divisions, two FA Cups and four FA Charity Shields, before resigning from Liverpool in 1991.

Despite winning the League Cup, Liverpool could only finish 8th in the Premier League, and Dalglish was dismissed in May 2012.

By the end of his first season with Liverpool, Dalglish had played 62 times and scored 31 goals, including the winning goal in the 1978 European Cup Final final at Wembley against Bruges.

Dalglish guided Liverpool to victory over Everton in the second all-Merseyside FA Cup final in 1989, winning the match 3 – 2 after extra time, but was deprived of a second Double in the final game of the season, when Arsenal secured a last-minute goal to steal the title from Liverpool.

* Liverpool FC were the most successful club side of the era, becoming English champions on six occasions ( 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986, and 1988 ) and winning two European Cups ( 1981, 1984 ).

Cisse, along with the on-form Hatem Ben Arfa, inspired Newcastle to a strong second half of the season, going on a 6-game winning run and recording memorable victories against Liverpool and Chelsea to put the Magpies in contention for European football.

Adams became a regular player in the 1985 – 86 season, winning his first major trophy in 1987 when playing in the Football League Cup Final win over Liverpool at Wembley.

Adams's strong discipline of the defence was considered a factor in Arsenal winning the League Cup in 1986 – 87 and then the First Division championship twice ; the first in 1988 – 89 after a win over Liverpool in the final game of the season ; the second in 1990 – 91, losing once all season.

From a small, long-established non-League team, Wimbledon Football Club had, from 1977, climbed quickly through the ranks of the Football League structure, reaching the highest national professional league in 1986 and winning the FA Cup against Liverpool in 1988.

The society and its members have been successful in winning a number of honours and awards and played an important role when Liverpool was the European Capital of Culture in 2008.

When accused by colleagues including Eric Heffer, left-wing MP for Liverpool Walton, of putting Labour's chances of winning the next election in jeopardy with his tax proposals, Healey said the party and the country must face the consequences of Labour's policy of the redistribution of income and wealth ; " That is what our policy is, the party must face the realities of it ".

* Liverpool dominate English and European football, winning both the European Cup and the Football League Championship, but they miss out on a " treble " by losing in the FA Cup final.

After the league's resumption, Sunderland came close to winning another championship in the 1922 – 23 season, when they were runners-up to Liverpool.

* European Super Cup – Liverpool beat Bayern Munich 3-2, winning the cup for the second time.

Perhaps the best result of the season came on 14 January 1984 when they won 1 – 0 at Liverpool – the dominant side of that era, who were in the process of winning their third successive league title ( and also the European Cup and Football League Cup ) that season.

After a poor run of form in Liverpool's away games in the autumn of 2006, Riise reacted to comments made by teammates Pepe Reina and Jamie Carragher that Liverpool could effectively write off their chances of winning the league, saying, " We never give up.

After beginning his career in his home country, he went on to have successful spells in Netherlands and England, winning the UEFA Champions League with Liverpool in 2005, appearing in 186 official games for the club over the course of six seasons.

They finished as runners-up over the following three seasons ( to Bury twice and Liverpool once ), before winning the championship themselves on their fourth attempt.

Łódź were an extremely powerful side, having played Liverpool, Juventus and Manchester United in earlier campaigns, and quite easily triumphed over Bangor City, winning 4 – 0 in Bangor and 1 – 0 in Łódź.

* Joe Fagan, the former Manchester City player and European Cup winning Liverpool F. C.

It was St John who scored the winning goal in May 1965 when Liverpool did win the FA Cup for the first time in the club's history with a 2 – 1 extra time victory over Leeds United at Wembley.