How Liverpool has turned nto EPL Title Contenders

HOW did it come to this?

How did the team with so much history, barely any of it recent, get to this stage?
Liverpool. Masters of their own destiny.
Win their remaining six matches, they win the Premier League for the first time, the league for the 19th time.
Actually – win its next five matches – Newcastle awaits on the final day of the season and seeing Newcastle spontaneously combusts against teams who pass well, mark it down as three points now.
Here are a few theories as to how the notion “Liverpool: Premier League champions” became a distinct possibility. 

PERSUADING SUAREZ
 He was gone, out the door, his time at Anfield finished.
As Luis Suarez trudged around the MCG after the pre-season friendly against Melbourne Victory, he looked like a man who was about to have his two front teeth ripped out without anaesthetic.
He set up a goal and reacted as if he’d been set up on a blind date with the three ugly step sisters.
Arsenal wanted him and bid one pound over his 40 million release clause. Or what they thought was a release clause.
IMPROVING THE ESTABLISHED
Who thought Jordan Henderson and Martin Skrtel would ever be crucial in a title race?
Me neither.
Henderson’s engine (who has the better gait, Sir Alex? Henderson, or anyone in Manchester United’s midfield?) and Skrtel’s big goals and relative reliability (the option: Kolo, anyone?) have been key.
BIG PLAYERS FIT
You can have all the fancy tactics and fan support you want. But if your best players aren’t playing, good luck.
To illustrate this point, a formula from nowhere in particular: every team that wins something needs at least three guns consistently. Some clubs have more depth, but your great ones decide matters.
So in this even renewal of the Premier League, what club has kept their “Big Three” on the park most.
Now compare...
Liverpool – Sturridge, Suarez, Gerrard – 79 games
Manchester City – Aguero, Yaya Toure, Vincent Kompany - 66 games
Chelsea – Eden Hazard, John Terry, Sammy Eto’o – 78 games
Arsenal – Mesut Ozil, Aaron Ramsay, Jack Wilshere – 63 games
Manchester Utd – Robin van Persie, Wayne Rooney, Nemanja Vidic – 66 games
Yeah, it’s subjective. Who is the big three, especially at Chelsea? (Eto’o the third for mine. Sorry, you can’t have two of your big three from the back four. Make your own rules…)
Manchester City could debunk this whole theory by getting Sergio Aguero back. He plays, they win.
But well done Liverpool backroom staff. Now, to keep them going for six more games
FEARLESS TO PEERLESS
Those next six games will be the sole adjudicator of this point, but everything we’ve seen in the past eight games suggests the prospect of a championship is not treated like anthrax in the dressing room.
Not that it would be fear of the unknown, mind you. Players have won English, Danish, Dutch, Russian and Uruguayan league championships. Big enough characters and impressive CVs are there.