Liverpool 2-2 Manchester United, FA Cup S/F 1979 

I can’t watch today’s corporate football love these clips when football meant more than money

I'm a Luton fan in the championship play offs ...I enjoyed the conference years better going to barrow on a wet ties night or Dartford real football

..and mistakes follow mistakes!

When blokes complained about the way footballers hugged each other when they scored, not like the men of the old days!

And stadiums weren’t just featureless all-seater bowls

I did watch Arsenal in the final.

Yep yep and yep! Remember being in the Scoreboard Paddock at OT - absolutely packed, United scored, we all jumped up, guy next to me caught his little finger in the arm of my glasses and off they whipped; I just started pushing people (I was about 18) out of the way, tyhey asked what was the matter, I explained and like you say, a circle appeared and we found them - in one piece! Can't agree more with your view - "less sophisticated....(but) how it used to be on the terraces".

I can't see how football is more sophisticated now. There have been changes but they haven't made the game more sophisticated.

Oh it really bothered us. We pretended it didn't, because we kept winning the league; but loads of my childhood memories of the FA Cup are me being upset by Greenhoff, then Brian Talbot, then Brighton at Anfield, Mark Hughes, the list seemed to go on an on. Then we got a bit lucky in '86.

Cup was one off games that suited some good sides that were inconsistent in the league but good on there day whereas Liverpool were caught up in title race an two legged euro ties in which they had mastered

​@@redflag8970 They won the League Cup four years in succession though.

@@basylpeterjones yes they did an they had good success in fa to in honesty

@@redflag8970 Bob Paisley suffered an FA Cup curse.

JIMMY GREENHOFFFFFF! ...still, we lost the final, albeit one of the greatest in FA Cup history (was on ITV recently; they been showing ext highlights of various cup finals every saturday, this w/e was 1979)

@Diego Diaz Not as bad as that one, United in their hey day really didn't get pens.... Just scored really late goals

@@salfordnick5336 hahahahahahahahahahahaha...i presume you do stand up?

@@stel3209 Christ are you about 12 you fucking tool.... I lived through it, you clearly didn't you fucking moron

Bit like Utd these days eh

@@michaelbennett6925 Yeah, like the martial one was dodgy on Sunday 🤦 united didn't get penalties under fergie.... They just scored late goals, name me a famous late penalty in the good old days eh??

FFS...i'd hand that pen back....as long as you hand back the THOUSANDS of incorrect decisions that won you 13 PLs.

Terrible decision. But in fairness, it was the only penalty Liverpool were awarded in 1979.

@@johnholmes8178 Really? Wow. To be fair, they didn't need penalties that year - they were almost unbeatable.

@@stel3209 OK! I'll arrange for that to happen.

It really is. And that’s from a United fan.

Nothing new there..we always took it year after year😉😉🤣👹

As always

Panini are still going strong mate, my eldest boy collects them.

@@ramps2402 No way! Does he take his swaps to school to trade? Ah memories!

@@stephenowens3687 yea mate he does as well as swaps them with his mates where we live, the only difference is there not peel back ones that you stick in the book nowadays the book has see through pockets that he puts them into 🤣.

@ramps2402 That's progress I suppose? I quite liked peeling them and sticking them in the book.

@@stephenowens3687 🤣 yea mate same here, still it’s good to see panini are still going strong.

No Way was that that 31st of May ... it was early April

Can't see the passion exhibited from the now saturated foreign premiership players compared to the British players here. The modern game is shite.

Great idea for an important match at a neutral venue. When playing in red means so much to both teams it's a bit unfair to give one of them an advantage.

That's easy - the penalty decision! Nothing wrong with playing in a bit of mud. Well a lot of mud. Obviously it's great that players have good pitches all year round these days, but cabbage patches used to be part of our football culture - can't help missing them a bit.

They should bring back that convention for semis and finals where there is a colour clash. Actually this was Liverpool's third kit!

@@MrJonno85 Would have been fun and games if they'd both turned out in white shirts and black shorts. :-D

Was same situation in cup final 1980​@@MrJonno85

@@rajnirvan3336 And 1982.

@@jonathancole833 ah yes that as well

For some reason FA Cup semi final replay rules dictated that both wore away kits> No idea why. This was frost time Liverpool had ever worn the all yellow kit. Up until that point (and beyond) their away kit was black and white like United's

Obviously both can't wear red so in theory it made sense to wear away colours provided they don't clash

@@tdonovan4735 You could be right since then but there was going to be a toss for strips for this particular game. Liverpool having lost the toss before the 1977 final decided they didn’t want to risk that again so it was agreed that both teams would change

it was....

And a nice one too 👍🏻

Actually they wore yellow in one-off cup games in the 1960s against Ajax and Arsenal (and possibly once in the 1950s against Accrington Stanley). This was their first "regular" yellow kit though. (I didn't know this - credit to one of my favourite websites: www.historicalkits.co.uk/)

@@robicenco1 From 1970 up to that time I never witnessed a yellow kit as the Away Strip was white top with red trimmings, black shorts, white socks ... So "In my life time" that was the first time they had that yellow kit on ... beyond then, they used a yellow kit every Know and again.

@@merseydave1 Sure - I'm not trying to pick a fight, just add a bit of information to the discussion.

This was their new 3rd kit. They didn't adopt all-yellow as their first-choice away strip until 1981-82.

Terry McDermott assumed penalty duties after Phil Neal missed one against Leeds Utd back in November of that season.

@@johnholmes8178 Thanks, good info.

I always wondered which team Coppell supported growing up - realistically, it had to have been either Everton or Liverpool...

@@robicenco1 he was a Liverpool fan an used to watch them he also said he laughed an enjoyed when Utd got relegated. Following yr he signed for Utd an fell in love with them.

@@redflag8970 Never knew that, thanks. He was a great player..

@@robicenco1 ye it was in his book touch an go I read it yrs ago prob early 80s

Optical illusion mate. I think the fact that zero players appeal for handball is proof enough that it’s his right foot that contacts the ball.

Apparently not! 1956 vs Accrington Stanley, it seems. www.historicalkits.co.uk/Liverpool/Liverpool-change-kits.html

@@robicenco1 great website - I should have said all yellow

@@lastschicker I think this was their first "regular" yellow kit rather than ones they wore in one-off emergencies. It is a fantastic site. So much football history there.

Don't worry - United went on to LOSE the Cup final against Arsenal whereas Liverpool went on to WIN the League. Who had the last laugh?

20 times? I'm guessing it was United who had the last laugh bit.ly/2JUBpJ1

I think the "Last Laugh" comment related to THAT specific season. If we continue to count trophy success some 29 years on from THAT specific season then it becomes an immeasurable commodity as the measure will never finish.

all these comments go nowhere just enjoy the greatness of this era an crowds at there best

@@bluespoon1969 66>63. Manchester United, putting England on the map and making England proud since 1878.

Your club was a mid table team in the 70's and 80's. You were shit then.

@@anfieldreds5027 Nearly as shit then, as they are now! And this clown thinks that Utd, with their leading the way with their rampant corporatisation of the sport; their leveraged buy out owners bleeding their club dry, while their ground falls into disrepair; and their team that cares more about social media than winning trophies, are somehow the "good" in his imaginary binary world - and Liverpool are then the "evil"? What a poor, deluded lunatic! And, not only that - but he actually thinks King Kenny, the three-time European Cup, and serial trophy winner; as player *AND* manager - couldn't perform under pressure, even when he scored such a great goal in this game itself? What a total fucking moron!

I think Dalglish scored one at Old Trafford in 83 or 84 but apart from that his record against United was Rush-like.

@@robicenco1701 He scored the equaliser in a 1-1 draw at OT in early 1983. My first ever United game. Average game but the biggest crowd of the season and a magic atmosphere. I was standing on a terrace in the corner looking down on the scouse end. God I wish football was still like that. I loved it. I don't love it now.

@@stephenflynn5214 I don't think anyone really loves it now tbh. We've got great memories though.

Nah.

@@robicenco1 Yeah, most definitely!

Scots DID NOT dominate English Football, BUT some of them were GREAT Players!.

Agreed mate. Never a penalty but was par for the course during the 70's and 80's. Many a ref from those days have secretly admitted being on the Anfield payroll!!!

@@KryptonitetoallBS what absolute and utter bullshit - "many a ref... *secretly* admitted to being on the Anfield payroll", my arse; give over, you total clown!

@@DaSkonk I know of 2 personally and they told me that it was well known throughout the refereeing fraternity that if you were lenient with Liverpool small packages would find there way to your home address. One was my old neighbour Bill Tenant and another was Jack Gillespie who himself had been an amateur footballer in his day. I couldn't give 2 F***s whether you believe me or not Skunky!!!

@@KryptonitetoallBS You do in your arse "know of two personally"; what absolute dribble - you're just another bitter manc twat with an anti-Liverpool axe to grind; as your sore-loser, childish comments all over this thread show to anyone who cares to look. And I couldn't care less what you "give a fuck" about, pal; your ridiculous "story" is still nothing more than the laughable, retrospective revisionist, self-serving *BULLSHIT* , of a deludedly entitled manc wanker - who still can't accept that his loser team were as crap then, as they are now. As I said already - get lost with your delusional ramblings, you absolute clown!

@@KryptonitetoallBS hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha....you are one knob!