For Mike Wilson and Liverpool, this season may be the most special in the club’s illustrious history.
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But not just on the field.
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Hillsborough Disaster, when 96 Liverpool fans went to a football match and never came home.
Wilson, a life-long Liverpool fan, still remembers where he was on April 15, 1989.
Then eight years old, Wilson was on his way home from a junior cricket match when he turned on the radio in his mother’s car to listen to his beloved Reds in their F.A. Cup semi-final against Nottingham Forest at Sheffield Wednesday’s Hillsborough ground.
It wasn’t until he arrived home that a family friend explained what had happened.
“I’ll never forget it, where I was and the whole emotion of it all that day,” he said.
“At the time I think I was a bit too young to fully understand it all, I was only eight and I knew something bad had happened obviously.
“It wasn’t until my late teens that I started really researching it and following it more closely when I started following Liverpool home and away.”
Wilson, originally from The Lake District in north-west England, now lives at Gillieston Heights and said the disaster brought the city of Liverpool together.
“I didn’t know anyone personally who was there but I knew friends of friends who were,” he said.
“With Liverpool being such a close knit city just about everyone could say they knew of someone who was there or someone who was affected by it.
“But for the people who were there and the stories they tell ... it was just horrific.”
Police had originally blamed Liverpool supporters for causing the crush but the Hillsborough Independent Panel concluded in September 2012 that no fans were at fault.
The panel also reported that police had attempted to conceal what happened by altering statements relating to the tragedy.
This is why, according to Mr Wilson, the disaster has caused so much heartache in following years.
“I think it’s the sense of injustice surrounding it all,” he said.
“That’s why it has resonated for so long.”
It is also why this season, in the 25th year of the disaster, is proving to be so special for the club.
Liverpool have not won the league title since 1990 and, after finishing seventh last season, are top of the pile heading into the final three games.
Mr Wilson said winning the title in this of all years, when it had seemed so unexpected, would mean everything to those connected with the club and the tragedy.
“I think it would be very poignant to win it this year,” he said.
“It looks like being the year that the families of the 96 will finally get closure for what happened with the Hillsborough inquests to wrap up later this year.
“If we win it (the title), it would be unbelievable for everyone, the emotion, how unexpected it is, everything.”
Mr Wilson will watch his Reds take on Chelsea on Sunday night in a game that could go a long way towards deciding the title.
And if Liverpool is to lift the trophy for the first time in 24 years on May 12 Australian time, it will mean so much more to people than simply football.
It is much, much more important than that.