“Everything changed in a second,” George Graham says as he remembers the sweetest moment of his life bursting into life at Anfield on a Friday night in May 1989. Twenty-eight years later, on a November morning in a brasserie on Hampstead High Street, Graham’s bacon sandwich lies half-eaten on his plate amid flickering memories of the goal Michael Thomas scored for Arsenal in the last minute of the final match of the 1988-89 season. It was a season scarred forever by the tragedy of Hillsborough, when 96 Liverpool fans were crushed to death on 23 April 1989. Forty-one days later the title decider between Liverpool and Arsenal was played at Anfield. Liverpool had made their usual surge...
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