Liverpool, defending league champions, lost 2–0 in front of a 92,000 crowd, with Bryan Robson scoring both of the goals for FA Cup winners Manchester United.

They travelled to Highfield Road for a First Division clash with a Coventry City side who were emerging as surprise title challengers under young manager Bobby Gould, and found themselves on the receiving end of a 4–0 defeat.

However, they pulled together the following weekend to demolish Notts County 5–0 at Anfield, and entered 1984 still in pole position and three points ahead of their nearest rivals Manchester United.

January The first Liverpool game of 1984 was a 1–1 home draw with Manchester United in the league, billed by many as a championship decider – the outcome of which left the top two unchanged.

The FA Cup quest began with a 4–0 home win over a Newcastle United led by former Liverpool striker Kevin Keegan, but ended later in the month with a shock 2–0 defeat at the hands of the previous season's losing finalists Brighton & Hove Albion.

They also achieved a League Cup quarter-final replay win over Sheffield Wednesday, like Keegan's Newcastle on the way to promotion to the First Division.

A goalless draw at relegation threatened Birmingham City (who soon went down thanks to a late escape act by Stoke City) could have been enough for Liverpool to lose their lead to Manchester United on goal difference, but Ron Atkinson's side also managed only a draw that weekend, and there was still a mathematical chance of either QPR or Southampton winning the title.

Any talk of a repeat of the December humiliation at Highfield Road was quickly silenced as the Reds crushed the Sky Blues 5-0 (with Ian Rush scoring four goals and pushing them to the edge of the relegation zone just five months after they had been pushing for the title) and opened up a five-point lead to a Manchester United side who were beaten by Nottingham Forest on the same day.

[16][17] The championship trophy was presented to the club on 15 May 1984 after the final league game of the season – a 1–1 draw with Norwich City at Anfield.

Veteran defender Phil Neal put the Reds ahead against AS Roma at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, but the Italians later equalised to force a 1–1 draw which remained the score as full-time and then extra time loomed.