Here are your Liverpool morning headlines for Sunday, May 24.
Five years on from Stoke thrashing
It’s five years to the day since Liverpool suffered one of their worst ever Premier League results.
The Reds concluded the 2014/15 campaign with a 6-1 demolition by Stoke in Steven Gerrard’s final game for the club.
It wasn’t Brendan Rodgers last match in charge, but it marked the beginning of the end of his tenure.
The Northern Irishman made changes to his backroom staff in the summer but that was a mere window dressing.
Within five months Rodgers had been sacked and replaced by Jurgen Klopp, who hasn’t done too badly since…
Remembering Liverpool 1-0 Chelsea, 2005
Fifteen years have now passed since Liverpool’s fifth European Cup triumph in Istanbul.
Before that miraculous comeback against Milan in the final, Rafa Benitez’s side had to make their way past Chelsea in the semis.
The tie was settled by Luis Garcia’s ‘ghost goal’, and some of the players involved that night have shared their memories in an exclusive piece with the ECHO.
Djimi Traore remembers there being a “big rivalry” between the two clubs, while Jerzy Dudek believes the fans were essential to Liverpool’s triumph.
Indeed, Dietmar Hamann says the atmosphere at Anfield that night was the “most electric” he had ever experienced.
"That instant where I saw the ball go in was enough to push me towards all of the fans,” Garcia added on his winner. “I think they were the ones that pushed the ball in."
Liverpool join forces with Nike
Liverpool will begin an exciting collaboration with Nike at the start of the 2020/21 season.
That means the Reds will still lift the Premier League title - presuming they collect the required six points - in their New Balance jersey.
The 2019/20 campaign is set to resume next month and should be concluded by the end of July.
And Liverpool will defend the championship while wearing kits made by Nike next term.
It took a court deal for Nike to complete the deal, with New Balance insisting that they had first refusal if they could match the American giants’ offer.
But that issue has now been resolved and Nike will begin their partnership with Liverpool in 2020/21.
