I'm Brazilian, n' was born in 1980. This is fantastic hearing about this commentator. I remember him by the world cup 1998 for BBC, a legend so called Barry Davies. In the 70's, western used to be stronger also...
Achei engraçado o cara perguntando nos comentários, o quê era aquilo ( avalanche que a torcida do Liverpool fazia ) algo tão comum no futebol brasileiro.
Great days. The 2 biggest clubs in Britain going to to toe. As a United fan I loved travelling up the East Lancs to Anfield. It was THE fixture we all looked forward to. We had a decent record there too, despite Liverpool's dominance, both domestically and in Europe. Today's football pales into insignificance compared to those days.
When the football was good, the fans and atmosphere was fantastic and even the commentators were better. Shame so many of these lads have since passed. Great times
As a 16 year old I just discovered football, watching it on Danish TV, as my initials imply there can be only one team for me. I remember the name of the players. Wow what a style of fast paced football, oh wait that is like watching Mr. Klopp's team in 2020. There can only be one club. LFC :) Then and now. I am Danish - red and white and more red :)
I was 17 and in the main stand for the very first time. It was a new experience having spent so many years standing on the Kop and in the paddock. Great performance by the Reds. This was the game that made me believe we would win the League that season. I went to every home match that season but in fairness United could easily have won it but we matched them for effort and the Keegan -Toshack partnership was at its peak that season. In the end we won the League in that fantastic ladt match at Wolves with three goals in the ladt 14 minutes on May 4th 1976. I still cannot remember how I got home that night !!
What a game and a perfect birthday gift, I was born on the 8th November 1975, and I am a diehard LFC fan, wow LFC beating the eternal enemy on the day I was born that is simply amazing
They won the league that yea too - unfortunately I was born in 1995 and scum won the year. I'm yet to see us win the title, but the night of 2005 is still in my blood. Our time will come.
Our time will come, thought that we might have won it in 2014, but that unfortunate slip and then they sell their best player, which was a no no, home they have a good 2016 season
I remember that night in 1984 when we own it, and that night in 1985 in my country of Trinidad in the caribbean at the time we had only 1 tv station, and as a child I followed LFC, and I am close to 40 and I still do
seanc1975 I was born on the day Liverpool played United at old trafford but we got beat 1-0 Frank Stapleton scored the winner :( but great fixture to be born on...
When people who lived around the grounds mostly in terrace houses went. To the game when it was a proper working class game fantastic days. Never to seen again. Sadly
Great game. Paisley's superb champions elect against dochertys swaggering young united team, both going at it full pelt, great atmosphere too, brilliant.
Nothing swaggering about that Man Utd team. Liverpool had a young team as well and full of experienced world class players and that's why they won trophies and Man Utd won next to nothing
@@fifalegend6298 they won the FA Cup the following season, at Liverpool’s expense. And “swaggering” are exactly how Dochertys united team are remembered. All out attack.
@@lordsummerisle3139 Yes and they didn't attack anywhere near as good as paisley's or dalglishs teams or even Klopps teams. Stop overating a loser 1 cup team please
@@lordsummerisle3139 Yes while Liverpool took home the league title and European Cup. Ur point?. 1 Cup is all they had. Hardly swaggering and Liverpool had a young team as well difference is we don't boast about it like the manc weirdos. Bit creepy tbh
@@sib1930 my point, as I said in the original post was that this was a great match. Only scouse weirdos could take exception to that and get all defensive because I gave a little bit of credit to united too. “Superb champions elect” is how I described Liverpool. Get a fuckin life you dick
This shows me that English football has always been fast. Too bad the national team never had that rythm to play against powerful countries like Brazil, Argentina, Italy, Germany or even Netherlands except for '66.
it must have been post-season fatigue first and foremost, Division 1 was bigger than the other league, so more games, plus the FA Cup with its replays... and in the PL era a lot of European competition games, so the players have always looked knackered ever since I started watching the national team in the early 80's
Ah yes when football was actually about the fans, the teams were made up of players that actually loved their club unlike today where players have an average life of two years with a club before moving on or been dumped, just look at the fans in those days passion and genuine atmosphere. Terracing despite the Hillsborough tradgy in my opinion was better , sadly all has change , sterile atmosphere where money is king and tradition no longer of any relevance. Great game this also.
Yes when players generally, genuinely cared about their clubs but still didn't kiss their badges when they scored. Many also frequented the same pubs as the fans (even before games!) and not many earned THAT much more than the average fan.
Proper football...proper players....proper fans .....miss those halcyon golden days of football....when matches had a rawness and an edge,..played on heavy bobbly pitches,...when the games had real heart and soul and passion...inspired by raucous fans,,, making for wonderful atmospheres.........now it's an over hyped money obsessed business......
The atmosphere in those days was something else without all the day trippers souvenir hunters and tourists that pack out the stadiums today in the premiership
agree with you but i think todays society could not create this atmosphere even if you had terracing etc. they dont love or have the passion of this generation of fan
This society is too concerned with taking pictures of themselves and whatever they're watching, rather than drinking in the atmosphere of every part of their lives !
Millwall made two First Division appearances at OT, on Sat 14 Jan 1989 (3-0 win for United) and Sat 16 Sep 1989 (5-1 win for United). I went to both games but cannot remember anything outstanding about the size of the Millwall support.
Absolutely staggered by the amount of references to the crowd at 2.15 and wondering how they survived! LOL. Was like that at many other grounds it was just that you saw it more on TV at Anfield. It was just what happened - you'd be expectant and if they scored or missed you were perching forward and if you jumped up you sort of propelled forward! Honestly for the sanitised viewers of today it may seem dangerous and chaotic but it was what footy then was about. I loved it! Never made it to the Kop as a United supporter (!) but this always happened in what would be called the 'ultra's' sections of the grounds. At OT in the 60's and early 70's it was the Stretford End; when segregation came in, the away fans were in the Scoreboard End mostly on the right (as viewed from the tunnel) so it was in the Scoreboard Paddock (my FAVOURITE times); then they moved the away fans across to the left, so it became the United Road. Sorry to say LFC fans, but Hillsborough was another ground where it happened (Leppings Lane End) and that BEFORE the fences went up (yep disaster waiting to happen) and Villa (Trinity Road End) and even parts of the Kippax I recall. Sure other fans will recall it too, but these were my recollections as a member of the Red army!
It was more impressive at Anfield though because the steps were smaller and the crowd more packed. I stood on many other terraces but they all had bigger steps than the Kop. The Kop had no large gangways either.
i had a very lucky escape the first game i watch my uncle took to watch a pre/season friendly ...Blackburn Rovers v lfc but thank heavens above i became a Manchester United Fan thank fuck for that ...
When you could be shopping in town with the missus and have a bite at the café. Then jump on a 27 bus to Anfield and as you entered the turnstile, throw the guy 70 pence and shout 'one for the Kop'. Then disappear into a two-hour world of camaraderie, where you became part of a big family and the outside world was forgotten. Then after the game, you could wait to hear the scores from the other first division games - all of them 3 o'clock kickoffs - and a big roar would go up when it was announced that Everton had lost. Then as you walked across the half empty Kop, you had to meander up and down the steps - to avoid the huge pools of urine along the terrace. And with the sweet smell of Old Holborn tobacco smoke drifting over you, you could descend the steps and join the army of people walking along Walton Breck road. That was then.
The most away fans I've ever seen at OT (went to all home games 1975-1990) were Wolves fans for the 1976 FA Cup sixth round match (they had part Scoreboard End and also Scoreboard Paddock plus seats). I've been informed by someone who has been to all the games since then that Burton Albion took the most fans (for the 2006 FA Cup third round replay).
Ive said this numerous times about these games in this era.. Look at all the legends on both sides who you can name now 47 years later household names even now.... You wont be saying in even the next 10 years who the players of today are as basically there are hardly any who you would remember...
They were the only team barr Neverton of course.That came in numbers to Liverpool before the proper segregation went up.There was a sort of temporary segregation for the Mancs.When the new fences went up,they where given a smaller allocation. Great support they had tho,created great games and an edgy atmosphere.Before we started to attend matches.We used to go into town,when we were kids just to watch these hoardes come into lime st( yes lime st) and watch the chaos develope.Didnt happen with any other team for a few years.
The commentators back then(only one)far better than the bores that commentate these days,no analysis of this and that,just people whose enthusiasm to commentate added to the drama of the game.
The kop (and many other stands in English football) used to be all standing, so whenever there was a chance near the goal, the crowd would rush forward, as you can see here.
Back then every team wants to be number one in the league. Now they want to secure a comfort spot in qualifying champions league if they failed to secure a title.
@@fezziwig184 no it's not.i love the epl obviously but as a diehard foreign Liverpool fan(fully aware of our long drought domestically)the champions league is the pinnacle of football in any sense!!
my point is Utd fans on here make out they were the only club taking large numbers to away game pre-1980's....the clip i posted show that is bollocks (1968) - Utd, Liverpool, Everton and Leeds all travelled in large numbers in the 60s/70s. City never, Stoke, Birmingham etc never.....
