As some of you will recall, 20 years ago it was late drama at Anfield in a game between Liverpool and Arsenal that ended the Reds title hopes.
Back then it couldn't have been more dramatic. With the title destined for Kenny Dalglish's side yet again, Michael Thomas raced through the Reds backline and with the very last kick of the Football League season scored the goal that gave Arsenal the title instead. It was a dark moment in the history of Liverpool Football Club coming just a matter of weeks after the darkest of moments at Hillsborough.
Fast forward almost 20 years later and to last night where Andrei Arshavin raced through on goal in the 90th minute to score his fourth of the game and put Arsenal in front, looking to have ended all hopes of Liverpool winning the league they have won just once since that fateful night in late May 1989.
At the end, it was by no means as dramatic as that night. Furthermore Yossi Benayoun's 93 minute close range finish earned a point that put us back on top and could prove crucial as our captain sagely observed.
But if we're being honest it wasn't enough when we had said beforehand that six wins from the last six was a must. Assuming Manchester United win their two games in hand they go six points clear at the summit and with five games left there may not be enough time for us to claw it back and end the title famine.
But then who could have predicted two 4-4 draws in our last two games, or a 4-1 win at Old Trafford or any of the remarkable late comebacks or wins we have witnessed at Anfield and on the road throughout this season?
It's been an unpredictable campaign, full of ups and downs and late drama. Whose to say that with five games left that there can't be a bit more?
It's not over yet, not till it's mathematically impossible.
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