By the summer of 1997 it had been seven years since Liverpool had won the league title. Imagine that? Seven years. That’s a lot isn’t it?
Surely that wouldn’t last much longer. And twenty-three-and-a-half years ago the answer to ending that seven-year wait lay in recruiting a bit of bite.
More steel. A dominating force in midfield. It lay in Paul Ince. The self-styled ‘Guv’nor’ had had an impressive couple of seasons at Inter Milan, but the lure of being Liverpool’s missing piece of the jigsaw proved too difficult to resist, and eyebrows were raised when then former Manchester United midfielder moved to Anfield in a £4m deal to play under Roy Evans, a skilled manager but one whose teams were often accused of being too nice.
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