In all my 40yrs of watching the Reds this was probably one of the greatest games i ever saw them play,god knows why it was only 1-0 we absolutely battered them for the whole 90+mins and the pace of the game was unbelievable.
My goodness, John Barnes, what a player and what a privilege to watch during his heyday. He was a diamond in an era when British football had no equal. I tell my kids about him.
This Liverpool team were arguably one of the best of all time - I remember them completely destroying Nottingham Forest playing unbelievable stuff Such a shame they never got to test themselves in Europe - them against the AC MIlan of that epoc would have been something special The only dodgy player they had was Grobelaar in goal
You saw the save against Viv Anderson in this match. Grobelaar was a great keeper. You don't make 600 plus appearances if you are not a great keeper. People remember the dodgy moments but there were far more great moments than dodgy moments.
Their own moronic fans' fault that they didn't get to test themselves in Europe - the same fault of the same morons that denied Tottenham three UEFA Cup entries, Everton and Arsenal European Cup attempts and other clubs, particularly smaller ones like Coventry, Wimbledon and Oxford a crack at Europe.
I was at this game. Never seen a tempo like it! Fast & furious throughout! Although the crowd was a very hostile one. Most intimidating coming out of Anfield.
This was my first Liverpool match on the Kop. Liverpool were dominant and should’ve had more. I remember people saying on the kop how lucky United were to keep more goals out. Viv Anderson was just fouling all game. Should’ve been sent off. Dalglish and Ferguson had a barny after the game. Dalglish had his recently born son with him and told the press they may as well talk to his son, because they’d get more sense out of him!
what an intense game, at 5:33 you hardly see this today that the ref restrained an agitated player with his own hands and the ref was totally right to do it
John Barnes was an absolute joy to watch on his day.would pay to watch.he destroyed the scum that day.and what a side Liverpool had in the late 80s.would most def won a European trophy.for sure
I remember when he came to Elland Road in the 90/91 season and for 45 minutes utterly destroyed Leeds ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LnvCg6jS2vM.html
Better fitness training and diet plans. Players have more stamina. During this period (according to John Barnes), players would eat at KFC before matches.
@@stephen-truthseeker Nostalgia is very powerful. People always think that the past is better. I watched a Bill Shankly interview from the 70's and he complained that the players from his playing days (the 1930's) were superior. Also it does not make sense. Advancements in sports science and meticulous attention to detail (when it comes to training and diet) has to mean that modern football players are faster, stronger and have higher stamina. John Barnes even admitted that before Graemme Souness became manager, it wasn't uncommon for players to be eating crap like KFC before a match.
7m10s - Viv Anderson would have got a straight red card for that today. He then pulls back Barnes about 45 seconds later (video time), which would probably be the same.
***** Paul McGrath has never been accused of rape. Blackmore had been accused in Bermuda the previous December; and yes, this was just after the tabloid story of Robbo being so drunk, he accidently went in the women's toilets, came out.
***** Only Blackmore was accused. The only time in the 80s I can remember two players being accused together of rape, was Steve Moran and Mark Wright of Southampton in 1982. All the accusations were without foundation, of course.
***** I'd expect the Kop to take advantage of that sort of publicity; the same way I'd have expected the Stretty and United Road to if it had happened to Liverpool. :)
I was in the kop... as a young Man U fan! - my Danish relation had come to visit and got tickets without knowing what was what. He was happy and waved a danish flag when Molby scored the pen anyway. I couldn't wait for the final whistle, but have to say Liverpool were a different class, they were much fitter. Barnes was awesome as an individual but the whole Liverpool team were on top of their game.
Watching Viv Anderson in the match is like watching James Millner against Manchester City. Klopp with one of his trusted "lieutenants". Millner lost his legs since 2019 and literally blocks off everyone who tries to get past him. Time for Millner to drop a level.
Nither did, Beardsley, Linerker, Waddle or any other England Player........England left Euro 88 without scoring a goal, Barnes gave the only bit of magic the team showed at that Euro vs Holland so making it sound like John Barnes under performed is a injustice to him and a big let off to the other equally poor players
@@josssmith Indeed, and if anything it was Robson who gave the team their high point of Euro 88 with a typical barnstorming goal against the Netherlands. That gave us hope, for about half an hour....
Ronnie Whelan wasnt known for an aggressive or Dirty could look after himself and he couldve sorted out Robson make no mistake about it.Robson who i respect yet was wrong here.ok.
Aye it was ridiculous! He was dangerously late at times and cynically dragged Barnes down @7:57, when the usually placid Liverpool man gesticulated in frustration and disbelief at the referee's bizarre failure to adequately punish Anderson in this game. He didn't even give him a free kick!!!
I don't think I saw this at the time. How the hell Liverpool only won that 1-0 should have been six or more with at least two reds for Utd. Utd were under siege for 90 minutes Barnes their tormentor in chief. As this game reminds us, Utd's "great record" against Liverpool in the '80s was based purely on turning the game into a physical slugfest. In playing terms, they were leagues apart. You can see Robson was well off the pace in that match, probably been on the booze the night before but Fergie played him anyway. In that form, he was more of a liability to everyone on the pitch not least to his own team.
CthulhuRules absolute bollocks we played some good stuff against your lot, just watch the corresponding match this season 3-1, you hardly got a kick except a deflected goal.
100% mate! I remember the year before this game we battered them & led 3-1 & then they got a jammy deflection (Robson I think) & then scored another against the run of play to get an underserved draw. That fat overrated Irish cunt Whiteside came on & as you correctly said turned the game into a physical slugfest. They couldn't live with us on a footballing level & they knew it.
I was 10 years old in 1988 when we won this game against the bitter mancs... I can remember also taunting the shit out of my man utd fan uncle afterwards... 🤣
was at this game in the Kop and gave a sly fist pump when United scored, only to see an offside flag. Luckily only a small child noticed it This was the days of Liverpools tiny away section where United fans in the Kop trying to get transferred used to get hammered down the bottom right corner In truth it was a bad game but Barnes was the difference
Yeh bad game for your lot. Liverpool were unplayable on the day & one of the best teams in the world at the time, should of won this by 4 or 5 but you mancs were always jammy at Anfield, not these days though haha! Now it's always a bloodbath with you lot hanging on for grim death hoping to keep the score down..
think this was r first home game of the season, proper football, proper kits, proper atmosphere, 99% scousers and mancs not the diluted shit we have now. i remember some mancs being taken out of the kop and the plod walking them in front of the kop where they were accompanied by loads of loose change, mainly 1p's & 2p's, it was the 80's after all, so much better.
What do you base this assertion on as Liverpool didn't even win the league in 1988-9 finishing second with 78 points from 38 games (and this points total has been surpassed many times in 38 game Premier League seasons with Chelsea getting 95 points in 2004-5)? IMO the best Liverpool side ever was the one that won the League in 1978-9 (if three points for a win would have got 98 points from 42 games). (and statistically the Chelsea side of 2004-5 were the best team
Mick Shipton Liverpool did finish second in the 1988-89 season, but with 76 points. They had the same number of points as the champions,Arsenal, and exactly the same goal difference (+37). It was owing to Arsenal scoring more goals than Liverpool did, which cost Liverpool 1st place
JFT39!!! you can't leave it can you? Liverpool fans (rightly) did time for their involvement for Heysel (i was there....you probably weren't even born) - i don't know 1 Liverpudlian who doesn't believe we had some part in that awful night....so why the "JFT39"? they, correctly, got their justice - know go away little boy and don't bother me again
Mick Shipton I have a feeling that Liverpool only defeated Man.Utd.once in the league at Old Trafford in the 1980s. I think that it occurred in April 1982,with Craig Johnston scoring the winner
@@jeremyslaney5644 Yep. They also beat United in the League Cup in 1983 and 1985, but apart from that United's record against them in the 1980s was phenomenal.
They did win on Boxing Day of the 1979-80 season, and 4-0 in September 1990, and had 2-0 wins in April 1992 (to give the title to Leeds), March 1995 (helping to give the title to Blackburn) and December 1995. Their record was better in the 90s when the game was their cup final. Most of the 80s games (home or away) were draws.
