This was my 1st ever game at Anfield. Still remember the ovation we gave the Lodz players at the end. Their captain afterwards said they were moved by it.
I was on the Kop with my dad that night and everybody was saturated from torrential rain. So much so that in a packed crowd, steam came off the Kop that night and the hissing was deafening. Despite losing the tie, this match goes down as one of my greatest memories. The spontaneous applause that erupted from the Liverpool fans - recognised by the Polish players - marked an extremely emotional moment of humility. The result became totally irrelevant and the real winner here was humanity. A very proud night to be a Liverpool fan
@distantvoices you are right to mention the Brighton game. I remember it was a chorus of boos and applause. Without making excuses, I believe the negative element came from the sheer disappointment of crashing out of the fa cup, when we were desperate to win it for Bob Paisley in his final year.
and I was sitting in Poland in front of TV-set filling that something historical happened for polish football. Those years everything that took place in the west was for us like on different, better planet. Reaction from Liverpool's fans after the game still is my biggest memory from this game. Respect :-) The week after - a photo of Włodzimierz Smolarek wearing an english police cap was on a front page of the only football weekly magazine in the country
finally i could watch Liverpool's fans clapping after the game to recognised Widzew players victory over own club. i only heard and red about this. huge respect! that's why so many people from my generation in Lodz support FC Liverpool.
yes mate that is how it used to be , I was on the Kop clapping Lodz myself, I was one of them doing it, I had forgotten how sporting and fair we were, different fans now, they are still sporting , but not as much as this I don't think, would love to see this lot of Liverpool fans prove me wrong .. brilliant to see though isn't it how fair they were , they were special mate a breed apart.
Nie jestem z Łodzi, ale jako nastolatek przeżywałem niesamowicie mecze Widzewa z MC, MU, Juve a potem z Liverpoolem. Zresztą wtedy mecze Widzewa oglądało się jak mecze reprezentacji, chyba cała Polska im kibicowała. A fani Liverpoolu zachowali się z klasą.
A JA jestem kibicem LEGII WARSZAWA !!!!! I powiem tak ten mecz to była esencja piłki nożnej niesamowite emocje gra do kaca nawałnica liverpoolu i swietne kontrataki widzewa !! i nie dali rady widzewowi wielki liverpool takie mecze chce sie oglądać!!!! brawo widzew hhehehe
@@RumakMaricnekfart? Nie wygrywa się z Juventusem czy Liverpoolem na farcie. Farta można mieć jeden mecz. Pisze ci to kibic ŁKSu, to Widzew wyprawiał na początku 80tych jest nie do powtórzenia.
What we did vs Liverpool in 1983 can only be compared to kicking Real or Barcelona out of the Champions League quarters today... OK, we were not so much of a nobody back then, we had beaten MU, MC or Juventus before then, but LFC was definitely the best European club those days. This was the greatest achievement of the Polish club football ever.
As one of the Polish writers said: you can divorce your wife, but you will never divorce your favourite football team. this is especially true, if you are the fan of one of the two teams presented in this video. Greetings from Poland.
Liverpool was obviously a much better team, but they had their 'secret weapon', Grobbelaar! Thank you, Bruce. Esp for the two goals in the first game.... ;) That kinda 'set the tone"... And they had Ray Clemence...
European cup , say it how it is , or was, no such thing as the Champions league back then, which is an irony as you had to be a champion back then to be in it not 4th lol.
@@heighwaysonthewing true, now we're gonna have 3 different european cups (cl, el and the conference) + extended european championship + league of nations
@@heighwaysonthewing I know perfectly well. However, the most prestigious competition at that time was the European Cup. (The Cup Winners' Cup had a lesser reputation). That's why I wrote about the Champions League, because now it is this league that enjoys the greatest prestige. I don't think people born in this millennium would know what I'm talking about if I wrote about the European Cup...
nie jestem jakos bardzo za Widzewem, ale jednak to na pojedynki z takimi wielkimi firmami się ekscytuję zawsze, Derby Łodzi to cos co sledzę odkąd interesuje się piłką...wracajcie, Łeczne i te inne do 1-2 ligi, dawać tu Widzew, ŁKS, czy slaskie kluby, bo niedługo będzie 16 piknik aren i nic więcej...ponad podziałami, Teraz Polonia B. może upasc...no niestety, jedyna szansa to jesli z łodzkimi ekipami będzie tak jak w Krakowie...jeden biznemen bierze jeden klub, drugi przeciwny...Cupiał i Filipiak równo tym zbudowali co zbudowali choć temu 1. nie wyszło to pod koniec...ale tak czy siak, nawet takie cos jest potrzebne, inaczej będzie się kopać po czole w II czy 3 lidze
to sie nazywa prawdziwy kapitalizm gdzie kibice angielscy musza ogladac cale spotkanie na stojaco te glowy kibicow ktore sa skomasowane praktycznie glowa do glowy to wielotysieczne sektory dla kibicow stojacych ktore znajdowaly sie za bramkami co dla kibicow polskich bylo i jest nie do pomyslenia bo kazdy polski kibic ogladal i chce ogladac mecz siedziac.Wielu kibicow angielskich w latach 80-ch nie bylo stac by kupic miejsce siedzace stad musieli w potwornym scisku ogladac mecz na stojaco wspolczuje.
Za bramkami miejsca tylko stojące, kibice falowali ściśnięci jak ryby w konserwie, wystarczyło zrobić panikę i tragedia gotowa (było pare takich tragedii w historii futbolu angielskiego)
Great Liverpool supporters the ovation they gave to Widzew was superb, Man Utd supporters were bahaving like scum when Widzew was in hotel in Manchester
BACK WHEN FOOTBALL HAD A CLASS AND A CHARACTER NOT JUST ARABS OR AMERICANS BUING TEAMS AND SPENDING MONEY. WHEN A TEAM FROM POLAND WAS BEATING LIVERPOOL!! NOW EVERYTING IS BORING AS THERE ARE ONLY 10 TEAMS WHICH ARE ALWAYS CELEBRATING
