Arsenal 3-0 Liverpool 1990-91 

Alan Smith’s contribution to the history of Arsenal football club should never be forgotten or underestimated - from scoring the goal that kept us hoping at Anfield in ‘89, to scoring the winner against Parma to win the Cup Winners’ Cup. A great striker and link man.

I miss Highbury. Any time that it was this fixture I really enjoyed as it was like the beginning for me starting to properly become a Arsenal fan even from the time in 1987 cup final, loved this season only lost once. The Adidas kits were awesome.

my favourite Arsenal team of all time....when football had a soul....

Im a Liverpool fan watching all these old clips back. I loved this Liverpool team and quite liked this arsenal team too. A day when it wasn't impossible to get tickets to watch top tier football live. I get a mixture of sadness and joy when I watch this stuff back. But I always watch so joy must triumph.

Brian Moore really was the best commentator

So nostalgic - Arsenal dominated turn of the 90s and the 00s, first overpowering Liverpool and then Man U. Not quite happened this decade! So many legends in this team: one of the best back 5s in history, Davis & Thomas dynamic in the middle, Limpar, Merson and Smith powerful up front. The like of Ian Wright, Kevin Campbell and Stefan Schwarz further strengthened this amazingly consistent and powerful team. Love the kits back then as well. Ah the late 80s and 90s. Life was good before football was bought out like everything else!

im a everton fan but i always enjoyed how george graham set up his team to be rock solid at the back and they still did have good attackers,arsene wenger could do with learning that

This was when the great Liverpool team of the 1980s was now very sadly coming towards the end of their golden era...

The Arsenal side of 90/91 only lost 1 league game and conceded ONLY 10 HOME GOALS AND ONLY 8 AWAY GOALS! ONLY EIGHT AWAY GOALS! THAT IS RIDICULOUS!

I’d only got into football during the World Cup that year. This was the first time I’d ever watched Arsenal play and I’ve been a Gooner ever since! Despite the boring Arsenal tag under George Graham we were capable of playing good football. I remember us scoring a lot of goals in that season.

Arsenal was great to go to back then. A top team, good crowd, no tourists. And cheap tickets

I still have the whole of this game recorded on VHS from the TV. When football was for everyone.

Let's face it. Life is better now. But football was much much much better then. Not that fashionable, cheap entertainment for men to stand with their mates and sing on terraces, the average player relied on a testimonial to set him up for life, loyalty to sides, never worried about agents getting inside your best players head to move on, the lure of a little European football as an adventure, and you got your Sunday match on ITV = simpler, more innocent days, when local, or at least British Isles based players really did represent the club/area

December holidays. Sunday Evening. Highbury. Packed Terraces. Brian Moore!!

Brian Moore and Jimmy Greaves... a commentating dream team. Great to see the old North Bank too.

different crowd back then to the spectators and tourists that populate the emirates.

I was there stood at the back of the north bank ! Miss these days, miss the terraces

Good old days. What a player Merson was

Brian moore,jimmy greaves,and proper footie nuff sed

Fantastic atmosphere, must be gutting to have to play at the emirates now?

This was the beginning of Liverpool's decline. It's kind of sad to watch, even as a non-Liverpool fan, that the board so royally screwed up the club by not investing in good players. You could see they were still a good team but they needed proper reinforcements

Good professional and unbiased commentary

Backs when English teams had mostly English players in their teams. 👍

8 england capped players in arsenals team...

Wow look at the intensity and pressing never mind the skills !! love Merson even loose the feet shows hunger and willingness now starting to know what today Arsenal means by that

George graham side is exciting to watch in spite of budgeted resources.He helps to create a defensive era which lay foundation to arsene wenger

Never had story of Anfield 89 or any of Wengers great teams but only lost 1 game

I was there as 12 year old !! I was Lfc fan , my youth worker called will took me and my mate . He was arsenal fan we we’re Lfc fan , I remember paying at the gates , ( think it was £3 ) on the day . We sat with the arsenal fan , I can just about remember seeing John barnes flying past us a few times The memories Thanks will

Fantastic days. Great commentators. When football waz good

RIP Kevin Campbell

VAR cancels first goal not over the line. Var cancels 2nd goal no penalty diving.

LFC set up with about 6 defenders - a tactic which worked well the season before for King Kenny Dalglish, but not on this occasion. I'm pretty sure LFC had won every game up until this game. Arsenal were fantastic, and coming only a few days after the 2-6 against Man Utd in the Rumbelows Cup 1991. It affected Liverpool, and as a Liverpool fan, I remember going into school the next day and getting ribbed about it - despite still being top of the league, I think! Follow me on Twitter @RetroFootballTV

Remember us getting a bit of a hammering here as a kid. Watching it back now, Liverpool have a few chances, especially in the first half. Was a great Arsenal side, this, though.

Arguably the best all time Arsenal team with the meanest defence I’ve ever seen plus the magnificent attacking of Limpar, Merson & Thomas to compliment Smith. Back in the days when you barely had a clear chance in front of goal. Such a contrast with the Premier league now where the art of defending is non existent. Also, Limpar’s first season in English football is never fully appreciated outside north London with double figure assists plus 13 goals too and a bloody good shout for goal of the season with the solo goal FA Cup against Leeds.

Hey, we were beaten by Manchester United in the league cup, but us Gooners never die.

You know I watched just before this one the Liverpool 0 Arsenal 2 89 title decider game. There must've been about 20 back passes in that game! I think the second goal actually came directly from a back pass to the keeper. (With the addition of Limpar & Seaman Arsenal were streets ahead in 1991 however.) So although yes the crowds I think contributed to a much better atmosphere. But let's not look at the past with rose tinted glasses too much. Remember this was the year of Hillsborough... Terraces were removed for a reason.( Although they could've kept them safely, they are looking into ways of doing this in Europe now, they do it in GAA(Irish) Football ). The football from around the beginning of the twentieth century to 2010 was IMO miles ahead of late eighties top flight English football WAY more goals per game

PAUL MERSON!!!!!!

What a beautiful third goal...

A bit awkward on the Paul Davis and Michael Thomas thing there.

Best lineup of Arsenal in my opinion.

Michael Thomas was a very good player for Arsenal. He was one of them unsung type professionals which every team needs..

No way would we have won the league championship in 91 if VAR was about 🤣🤣

Both teams were unbeaten going into this game if I remember rightly?

When most of the players were British

FA need to allow 'safe standing " sections at the grounds in the UK. With proper barriers and a good safety audit in place -----people standing , shouting and singing --enjoying them selves??

David Burrows played for Liverpool? Only ever saw him in a Coventry shirt.

back to when most of english society were arsenal fans, now they don`t but the world does.

over the line??...not even close

Limpar wouldn’t have won any penalties with VAR 🤣

I'm no Liverpool fan but that Limpar belongs with dennis wise in that irritating little rat category.....

Great back heel by Merson. And super finish by Alan smith

You know I watched just before this one the Liverpool 0 Arsenal 2 89 title decider game. There must've been about 20 back passes in that game! I think the second goal actually came directly from a back pass to the keeper. (With the addition of Limpar & Seaman Arsenal were streets ahead in 1991 however.) So although yes the crowds I think contributed to a much better atmosphere. But let's not look at the past with rose tinted glasses too much. Remember this was the year of Hillsborough... Terraces were removed for a reason.( Although they could've kept them safely, they are looking into ways of doing this in Europe now, they do it in GAA(Irish) Football ). The football from around the beginning of the twentieth century to 2010 was IMO miles ahead of late eighties top flight English football WAY more goals per game

R.I.P. Gary Ablett and those not with us.

I have the whole match on VHS somewhere. Arsenal were in complete control. This was the first time Liverpool looked very beatable.

Grobbelaar definitely had a fiver on Arsenal

To any Gooners watching this in 2022. Keep your faith, the good old days are on their way back 🔴🔴🔴

First goal was not over the line 🤪

I was there as a 12 year old! Support Lfc .

Lovely diving from Limpar, before they made it a booking you could make a career out of it. I’d have given him a second penalty for comedy value alone.

George ditches the Burberry for the 2nd half!

Two proper football clubs. Class the both of them.

05.25 is a stonewall penalty in any era 😂

Liverpool were still a brilliant attacking force that season but shaky at the back . Hansen was gone , Hysen was slow and shaky, Gillespie was just slow and the full backs only average. Kenny departed shortly afterward .

Terrible dive by Limpar at 5:05, embarrassing. Good to see it again

Thanks for the upload!!