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“In his first season at Liverpool, he won a treble of league, League Cup, and Champions League?”

Liverpool’s third generation boot room manager, Fagan took over lead duties after the legendary Bob Paisley followed Bill Shankly into retirement, and led the Reds to an historic treble in 1983/84 in his maiden campaign.

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Slot is on track to emulate such an achievement, with Liverpool currently 13 points clear at the top of the Premier League, leading PSG 1-0 on aggregate in the Champions League round-of-16, and preparing for a League Cup final clash with Newcastle United later this month.

But the Reds head coach, inevitably, did not play up to the ‘history repeating itself’ narrative.

They are a very good team.”

Yet should Liverpool progress past PSG and beat Newcastle at Wembley, Slot will surely hear more about Fagan’s side in the weeks and months ahead.

It is perhaps somewhat ironic then that the Reds’ smash-and-grab victory over the Ligue 1 giants could be seen as something of a throwback to some of their great European displays of yesteryear.

Liverpool had to rely on Alisson Becker to beat PSG on Wednesday, with the Brazilian called upon to make a record nine saves to preserve his clean sheet.

But as Luis Enrique’s side remained unable to find a way past Alisson, it soon became clear in Paris that a shaky Reds defensive display was teetering on transforming into a great European away result.

And the deeper you got into a continental campaign, the more common such games proved to be.

In front of their own fans, Liverpool can beat anyone.

The Reds beat Inter Milan 3-1 at home in the semi-final first leg in the first great Anfield European night.

Held 0-0 at Anfield, a Howard Gayle-inspired 1-1 draw was enough to set up a final showdown with Real Madrid as the Reds went on to be crowned Champions of Europe for the third time.

Meanwhile, in the historic Fagan-led 1983/84 campaign alone, Athletic Bilbao and Dinamo Bucharest were downed in such a manner before Liverpool beat AS Roma on penalties in their own backyard after a 1-1 draw in the final.

When the Reds first conquered all of Europe, results came before free-flowing, dominant performances.

Gerard Houllier and Rafa Benitez would provide throwbacks to such efforts themselves, with the former overcoming Roma 2-1 on aggregate in the UEFA Cup fourth round courtesy of a 2-0 win at Stadio Olimpico on his way to winning the treble.

Benitez’s own back-catalogue is more vast with Juventus and Chelsea in 2005 and Barcelona and Chelsea in 2007 as his side famously won the Champions League in Istanbul before reaching the final again two years later
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