Liverpool 4-0 Aberdeen (and Alex Ferguson), 1980 

Klopp has brought that intensity back to Anfield. They were marauders then and they are marauders now. Defending against them must have been a nightmare when you had a centre half running through like Hansen... You can't defend against a team where everyone except the goalie is pushing on and running in diagonals into the box... must have felt like they were playing against 14 men

@@TheComputec and also one touch passing the ball all could triple

Valid point Fella

The '70s and '80s had many smaller clubs reaching European finals like Mechelen, Malmö, IFK Gothenburg, Aberdeen, Dundee United, Brugge, St Etienne, Nottingham Forest, Steau Bucharest and Panathinaikos. So many of these sort of teams are so far behind the biggest teams now.

Yep. Monchengladbach won 5 Bundesligas and reached 5 European finals. All in 1 decade.

Absolutely! Gladbach were a superb team. Liverpool always had the edge over them, but had to be at their best to beat BMG. At that time, the Bundesliga and our 1st Division were the strongest leagues in Europe.

Yeah...what he learnt is "No chance of dealing with these on a level playing field - i'll join a club who are officiated favourably week in week out"!

Roberto Firmino has a cracking portfolio of backheels and flicks. You're right about it being coached out of the game though. Shame.

Errr, no. Liverpool still backheel and produce goals. Was it Ferminio last time?

Kenny was a move or 2 ahead back then, great reader of the game and his team mates, KNEW they would get on the end of things like that, great team work

I have this argument with many a man u fan

Ronaldo and best; better than any Liverpool players ever.

@@moviedramascenes335 whats that got to do with it?

@@moviedramascenes335 Brazilian Ronaldo was good but not near as good as Rushy, and as for Best he never won half of what most of that team won let alone King Kenny, ya bitter Manc

Ronaldo only dived and cheated dude,a fake.13>1.Amen.

+bareknuckles2u Well said.

United will always be more successful though

No United will never get another manager like Fergie

United the Biggest in England with their records; * English Premier League * Maximum Comuntity Shield Winner * Tied with Arsenal as the highest FA Cup winner * Tied Maximum League Cup Winner * Single English Team with "Triplet" * Single English team with 2 Three-Time While the Shitpool celebrates finals, United celebrates Titles !! They shut their mouth today Jajajajajajaja They will always be the Bitches !! Enjoy your 4 Titles in 15 years hahahahahaha until the Arsenal takes more #GGM #LoserpoolFC PS: Loserpool 1 title in 12 years hahahajajajaja united 2 years = 3 titles jajajaja POOR Shitpool Cry cry cry Liverpoop jajaja

@@Tcatp But are you six time European Champions? No, you're 6th place bottle jobs. Enjoy Ole at wheel of a car with no tires

Israeli

@@paulsaunders6075 Of course he was an Israeli, but he was born in Egypt in 1956. His family moved when he was a child and he grew up in Ramat Gan.

Aviation Cohen a jew

​@@paulsaunders6075israeli. Bastard

@@alishour5519Jews can be born in any country. FFS

Israeli King ♔.

nah, hes where we all are, on the big boy YT channels that get millions of visits a day, while you languish on the corner of the internet on mickey mouse vids haha

+FMTCH so true, also makes me laugh at the comments about how liverpool had more money than aberdeen, true but then also look at fergusons money and resources even taking into account inflation, paisley never had anywhere near fergusons amount to throw around and buy success, paisley earned his success as a true manager, just like sir matt busby did.

Yep, he only won so many leagues as he had no opposition, fortune favoured him like no other. overrated.

@@martygough Klopp has 1 league title in 7 years. The only overrated manager here is him

'very useful' Ipswich... I suppose. They were only the UEFA Cup holders and just missed out on the old First Division title.

What type of 12 trophies they won 😅😅😅😅😅

Scottish cup league cup league super cup cup winners cup and that was with very little money to spend

Give Alexander Arnold another 8-10 years and we might be revising that. Neal has an incredible medal collection too, testament to his quality and durability. Mr Penalty himself !

Standard was high .They were fast and played at pace. Souness was the guy.If he didn't get the ball he certainly got the man

Ferguson joined Aberdeen as manager in June 1978,

Ahhh ok... thnx!

Very tough draw there for Liverpool. Crusaders, Trabzonspor and Grasshoppers. Their legendary players just roll of the tongue!!

HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA those teams you had to play! ahhhh back in the day when the European Cup was full of semi pro nobodies. I mean, WOW, how on Earth did you manage to win european titles against opposition of such an elite standard???

Following Man Utd becoming the first English team to win it, only Forest and Villa outwith of Liverpool were able to win that trophy. Tougher contest, and a more fairer one, back then than you might think. Even the likes of Juventus & Barcalona etc struggled to win it prior to the Champions League revamp

Neat!

Clemence, neal, Thompson, Kennedy, Lee, to name but 5. So... HARDLY!

I dont think so.

Good one!

Hansen, Dalglish, and Souness were the only Scottish (and the fucking best Scottish players!) in that Liverpool team on the day

tribute act Was McDermott’s foul before or after his beautiful 5th minute chipped goal over Leighton?

Absolute bollox! For a start it wasn't McDermot's tackle on McMaster it was Ray Kennedy, and it wasn't even a foul, nor was it given as one by the ref. The ball was there to be won and Ray Kennedy won it fairly under the rules that applied at the time. He would have got sent off today but it was a different game back then. There was no ill intent in that tackle, he just won the ball and McMaster was unfortunately injured. That kind of thing happened in those days and still does as a matter of fact. But that's one of the reasons why the rules have changed so much and why football is now a game of pufters. And if you think the match which Liverpool won 5-0 on aggregate, and in which they were already 1-0 up, hinged on that one unfortunate incident then you are deluding yourself.

I can. They're owned by the second largest food producer in Europe. :) Clubs give priority to their sponsors now; that's possibly the difference.

scherben in 1980 man utd bought Garry birtles for 1 m liverpool bought ian rush for 300,000

who was a better buy

I fail to see the relevance of peanuts to United's transfer failures.

Won the league 3 times, won 6 domestic cups, won the same amount of European trophies as rangers and Celtic combined and got Aberdeen to many European cup quarter finals. 7 seasons and managed all that, he’s the goat

gordon wallace dalglish played in a tougher era so he was better

gordon wallace ..Dalglish and Souness didnt break much sweat for bein "sweaties" ..

Mazy74 Gerrard didn't play with world class players fact the team in the ,80 was all world class

yep and even then his poxy team didn,t deserve to be there since they didn,t win the championship the previous season.

+daztot If am not mistaken, the European cup was the only encounter between the master and Ferguson. Aberdeen 0 Liverpool 1, Liverpool 4 Aberdeen 0. I was there, the kop sang "Why are we so good" Good was pronounced in a Scottish accent.

+daztot 2005 again. Did you sit still, not celebrating?

+scherben yes, i stopped following the game when it became a business and not a sport, i don,t recognise the 2005 win as they shouldn,t have been there, didn,t win the previous league.

+daztot You don't recognise the 2005 win? Blame the greed of the so called top 16 clubs in Europe who threatened to form their own league, hence this set up. Man Utd weren't champions when they last won it either, and I bet there's been other teams too. It is a business and fans are getting fleeced.

well said my friend..i remember this game well as I do at their ground,,fergie done the biz..lets not hide from it but now its our turn...again...ynwa..

It's not like Man United were paperweights before Alex Ferguson took the reins. Prior to his arrival, they had 7 League Titles, 6 FA Cup titles, and 1 European Cup to their credit. Sustained success isn't exactly an easy thing to maintain in professional sports. It's not like Liverpool has exactly been lighting up the football world since King Kenny's departure in 1990. Heck, Kenny couldn't even replicate that success in his brief return.

+jydaflyest exactly, always makes me laugh how the mancs say they were so hard done by when atkinson left??? they had just won the fa cup against a very good everton side who were to be champions the very next season and the mancs had a team full of internationals! so my question is why did it take whisky nose so long to win a trophy?

+daztot oh and how long did it take sir bob to win his first trophy? and under the enourmous pressure of shanklys shadow, add to that sir bob had had no previous managerial experience unlike whisky nose taggart.

+daztot The wheels had come off completely at United when Fergie took over; the team was second bottom after a slew of inadequate buys coupled with ageing, demotivated players. That said, many United fans were hugely unhappy with him for his first four/five years in charge, regarding him as an excuse maker who was hopelessly out of his depth at Old Trafford; we just seemed to be going nowhere, till it suddenly gelled. As for Bob Paisley, well, the man was a master tactician who knew exactly who to get to for the Anfield system. As Gordon McQueen has said, your recruitment was the best.

The 2000-2010 liverpool team was a very powerful team and he defeated them.

Ali Moghaddass But not the same team as the team in the 80’s

Hard to tell. The epl moved on in terms of quality due to foreign players. Teams of the 60s 70s and 80s probably would have struggled in the modern game.

Dundee were Scottish representatives 3 years later. They got to the semi, while Liverpool went on to win it vs Roma in the final.

Giving someone the hairdryer in the dressing room

Wolfgang Von Poserkila For now...

Man City had the last laugh knocked him off his perch

agreed, and his team's (had the last laugh) ....too

6 ! he who laughs last laughs longer Haha

Fergus attended the 7-0 "Anfield Massacre," so no, he did not.

Northern Lights But in the early 2000s we had a much smaller Budget than Man United.

Northern Lights nope, how many ucl's have United got?

George Graham knocked Liverpool off their perch. Ferguson was the one who emerged from the ensuing vaccum - contested between him, Arsenal, Leeds, Blackburn and Villa - left behind from Liverpool's fall.

Man Utd didn't have to knock Liverpool off their perch. Liverpool just fell off after their 80's team became too old and football evolved beyond them. (With new training methods, eating plans, increased discipline)

Over 42 games.....

And only 16 goals conceded after 42 games in 1978.

Won again in 2020 so what are you saying now?

Eloquent? You can't even write your fucking native language properly.

you sound disturbed dude,a tad freaked maybe?13>1.Amen.

C.U. Farley Yes, that was amusing! Incidentally, the referee was the East German Adolf Prokop, whose high levels of fitness and competence were remarked upon by Bob Paisley at the time.

@@andymacfaul2852 Thanks for the info mate. Much appreciated. East German? I'll look him up. This Aussie is married to an 'Ossie'

The judge family name was Prokop. Adolf Prokop from East Germany. It's a joke about Lee's accent.

​@@andymacfaul2852Actually, let's stop and think about that for a second. The Berlin Wall fell on 9 Nov, 1980. For Herr Prokop to referee over the Iron Curtain, he must have either defected OR what is more likely (and unusual) he had special permission from 'Eric & Co' to do so. 😮 If you look up his wiki profile, several tournaments are mentioned before 1989 where he officiated. Interesting...

Taggert hated us with a passion

What ignorance.

He was beaten in 2 champions league finals by arguably the greatest team of all time in Modern barca whilst Liverpool had Bruges and Moenchengladbach in 2 of their finals LOL. There is of course the fact that he won 13 league titles in his time which is the greatest prize you can win but I'm sure you'll rubbish it like you wouldn't have rubbished it in 1990. You're just another bitter scouse revisionist. Pop in 80's vhs of your lot winning league titles and shut the fuck up.

Who would win in a fight dude, a panther or a hyena?11>1,keep looking up dude.Amen.

And here is Klopp crumbing after winning 1 league title in 7 years during covid 😂😂

@@conner1260 Be honest lad Liverpool had the league wrapped up before late March.

@@pablojablo6371It’s true yet that’s the only league he’s won, yet everyone is comparing him with Sir Alex who won 13 prems, 3 European trophies at Man U and kept getting better. Klopp is already doing downhill. Still a great manager though

+daztot I presume you've deleted 2005 from your honours list then?

+daztot Mind you United had to beat Bayern Munich and modern day Chelsea to get their european cups. Not quite as daunting as the might of Bruges and Moenchengladbach.... Also when you throw in that Liverpool had less matches to win to win the cup and they also didn't have the backpass rule your argument is quite the strawman.

scherben yes i certainly have, they never should have been there as they didn,t win the previous league, or even finish in the top 4 from memory?

Wolfgang Von Poserkila true but they had to qualify to even enter by winning their league, so technically it was over 42 games not the joke that it is now.

end of the day paisley 4 euro trophies in 5 years, ferguson 2 in 27 years? end of

is he fuck....

United the Biggest in England with their records; * English Premier League * Maximum Comuntity Shield Winner * Tied with Arsenal as the highest FA Cup winner * Tied Maximum League Cup Winner * Single English Team with "Triplet" * Single English team with 2 Three-Time While the Shitpool celebrates finals, United celebrates Titles !! They shut their mouth today Jajajajajajaja They will always be the Bitches !! Enjoy your 4 Titles in 15 years hahahahahaha until the Arsenal takes more #GGM #LoserpoolFC Liverpoop 12 years = 1 titles United 2 years = 3 Titles jajajajajajajajhajajaja Cry cry cry Liverpoop jajaja

Cool Dude Cry Cry baby! jajajaja #GGMU

Northern_Lights Clough

It took him nearly 30 years and has ONLY just managed to surpass LFC before he threw the towel in and retired...old bacon face put in one hell of a shift over that time😂😂😂😂

@@SAMax2268 Klopp only has 1 league title in 7 years at Liverpool 💀

Maybe but there was loads of great national teams in the late 70s and 80s. Holland argentina Italy brazil france all had good teams during this period.

Of course Liverpool spent in the 70's and 80's, but so did United. Dalglish was signed for £440,000 in August 77, six months later in Feb 78, United signed Gordon McQueen from Leeds for £495,000. Then in Aug 79 they paid Chelsea £800,000 for Ray Wilkins (more than Liverpool paid for Aldridge in *Jan 87*) Then of course there were others like Garry Birtles (£1.25m in 1980, *seven years* before Liverpool broke the £1m barrier for Beardsley) Frank Stapleton (£900,000 in *81*) Remi Moses (£650,000 in 81) and of course Bryan Robson, also in 81, for £1.5m from WBA. They also paid big fees for the likes of Alan Brazil and Gordon Strachan.

No-one said United didn't spend-(all self generated though mind). The point is the hypocrisy of Liverpool fans saying nonsense like Fergie "bought success" when during Liverpool's most successful era they were known for always buying at least 2 big names during the close season. And as I stated in my earlier post it wasn't unknown for Liverpool to smash the British transfer record in doing so!!! Compare that to Fergie's first successful spell where he bought class like Schmeichel in 1991 £500k, Cantona in 1992 £1.2, Irwin £625k 1990, Bruce £800k 1987, McClair £850k 1987. Fergie was never given the money to just splash out when he felt like it unlike for example Dalglish when he was @ Blackburn with Jack Walker's chequebook!!! In addition Fergie brought through loads of homegrown young talent from the academy. I'm sure I don't need to remind you of who!

I fail to see what Blackburn have got to do with this? When they won the title in 94-95, United's first choice XI cost more than Blackburn's did that season. Andy Cole cost United almost twice as much as Shearer had cost Blackburn. You claim that Liverpool 'we're known for buying at least 2 big names during the close season' during the clubs most successful era. Liverpool's most successful era lasted nigh on 20 years and you've come up with Dalglish in 1977 and Barnes, Beardsley & Aldridge from around 87-88. What about the other 17-18 years? During that era, Liverpool didn't sign 'big names' they bought players and turned them into 'big names' I refer primarily to players like Ian Rush & Graeme Souness. As for 'smashing' the british transfer record, United also broke the record a couple of times during that era and were more than capable of competing in the transfer market. In your list of players signed by Fergie in the late 80's you missed out, Mark Hughes £1.8m from Barcelona 1988, Mike Phelan £750k 1989, Paul Ince £1m 1989, Neil Webb £1.5m 1989, Danny Wallace £1.2m 1989, Gary Pallister £2.3m 1989. I'm not sure what you mean by United's spending being 'self-generated'? During Liverpool's period of success they didn't have super-rich owners. Just for the record, I'm not saying that Fergie bought success in the way that the likes of Chelsea & Man City have. Without the investment they have received, those 2 clubs would be finishing in the bottom half of the Premier League like they used to.

1. When United are accused ( as they are on this page) of buying the league I think it's very relevant to highlight the difference between clubs who actually DID buy the league ala Blackburn Rovers under Dalglish. NO-ONE could compete with Jack Walker's millions at that time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Transfer fees are not the only contributory factor NickyD. He attracted players on huge wages that no other club could match. 2. The Liverpool way ie-buy 2 new stars during the summer was and still is well known. It's often held up in the media as being the sensible way of doing things. ie- Don't rock the boat too much but just enough to keep the established 1st teamers on their metal. This isn't my opinion Nicky, this is fact. And why is it relevant? Because some posters have said that United spent big. I'm just highlighting that in their successful time Liverpool did EXACTLY the same thing! 3. Self generated- again highlights how United made their money compared to Blackburn Rovers, Chelsea, City etc. Personally I give more credit to teams who have made their own money rather than have it handed to them. If you feel that the success that Chelsea, City, PSG get is the same as Arsenal or United then I'm afraid we will just have to disagree!!

Jack Walker may have been able to pay big wages to some of his players like Shearer & Sutton but, I'm sure the likes of Keane, Ince, Hughes & Cole weren't being paid a pittance in comparison. Again you're saying that Liverpool signed 'stars' every year during the 70's and 80's.Just look at the Liverpool team in this video, apart from Dalglish, how many of that team were 'stars' *before* they joined Liverpool? I've already mentioned Rush (signed from Chester) & Souness (signed from Middlesbrough) but lets look at some of the others. Ray Clemence was signed from Scunthorpe, Phil Neal from Northampton, Alan Hansen from Partick Thistle, Sammy Lee & Phil Thompson came through the ranks at Liverpool. Add the likes of Ronnie Whelan signed from Home Farm and Steve Nicol from Ayr United and it's obvious that Liverpool did not sign *stars* every season. The money for those and other signings was also self-generated. I'm not saying that every player that Fergie signed was already an established 'star' player, although over the past 35 years, United have paid a British transfer fee record amount for a player more often than any other English club, e.g Robson, Keane, Cole, Veron, Ferdinand, Pogba. I have no idea why you're saying "If you feel that the success that Chelsea, City, PSG get is the same as Arsenal or United then I'm afraid we will just have to disagree!!" when I have already addressed that point at the end of my previous comment but I'll reiterate. The success achieved by Liverpool then United & Arsenal was not down to having super-wealthy owners, the success achieved by Chelsea & City blatantly was.

Dave felmer: Now you just finish 5th haha. Finished.

how many trophies did you win last year? We qualified for the CL with 3 honours in the bag, you qualified for the last qualification round with no trophies. lol

in england which club is most decorated club its liverpool recognise by uefa so 20 league tittles is nothing compare to 5 european cups and lfc total 11 european honours and recently in england lfc are most dominanted team in european cup then any other club in england. Lfc recently has highest goalscoring winning games in champions league game in englad only club in europea. in premier man u has most cups but in europa liverpool has the most. lfc are good in europe. liverpool may not win premier league for long time but we won champions league in 2005 make it 5 times thats was master piece in english football dude. man u has only one majors above lfc in all tropies laden . Never underestimate britain finest club .

in england which club is most decorated club its liverpool recognise by uefa so 20 league tittles is nothing compare to 5 european cups and lfc total 11 european honours and recently in england lfc are most dominanted team in european cup then any other club in england. Lfc recently has highest goalscoring winning games in champions league game in englad only club in europea. in premier man u has most cups but in europa liverpool has the most. lfc are good in europe. liverpool may not win premier league for long time but we won champions league in 2005 make it 5 times thats was master piece in english football dude. man u has only one majors above lfc in all tropies laden . Never underestimate britain finest club .lfc has history but both clubs has traditional and cups for me both has to be respected. in europe man u has no match no even same breath as liverpool

in england which club is most decorated club its liverpool recognise by uefa so 20 league tittles is nothing compare to 5 european cups and lfc total 11 european honours and recently in england lfc are most dominanted team in european cup then any other club in england. Lfc recently has highest goalscoring winning games in champions league game in englad only club in europea. in premier man u has most cups but in europa liverpool has the most. lfc are good in europe. liverpool may not win premier league for long time but we won champions league in 2005 make it 5 times thats was master piece in english football dude. man u has only one majors above lfc in all tropies laden . Never underestimate britain finest club .lfc has history but both clubs has traditional and cups for me both has to be respected. in europe man u has no match no even same breath as liverpool thats facts even in present liverpool are better in europe .

Aberdeen had a great side back then, Big Hardy (dirty) defenders that knew how to defend, digging midfielders, silky fast wingers and deadly strikers, what wasn't to like? Fergie got the best out of everyone of them n they LOVED playing for Aberdeen. First game I was at Aberdeen handed out a 2-1 defeat, 84 Cup final, they just had that little bit extra and more class and self belief back then. They were a great fast clinical team whenever they turned it on but they won the chance to do that by winning their personal battles, they could lay the boot in and kick lumps out of anyone along the way if need be. Hardy basta*** and a deadly football team that feared nobody back then. This was probably the only lesson ever dished out to them n Fergie held grudges for Years after it towards Liverpool, Souness, Dalglish n Hansen. His bitterness about Liverpool n Those 3 Scottish players cost Scotland a place in next round of 86 World Cup. Bitter man.

@Caspean Sea Imminent. Now wipe your tears.

@Caspean Sea and that's why when we do win it you'll never hear the end of it. You think we're unbearable now.......

Caspean Sea SIX Decades since Man U had the same number of European cups as Liverpool!!! tic toc tic toc tic toc tic toc, James Callaghan was prime minister of Britain, tic toc tic toc, Phil Neville wasn't born, tic toc tic toc you have a problem? 🤔 8 years and counting since Man U won the league!!! tic toc tic toc tic toc tic toc Man U Thursday night football, tic toc tic toc tic toc. You have a problem? Your team are just my daytime laughing stock...you have a problem? Tic toc tic toc you have OLE at the wheel, my daytime laughing stock, tic toc tic toc tic toc tic toc tic toc😆😆

Caspean Sea Ohhh so no Thursday night European football? In fact no European football!!! Tic toc tic tic tic toc tic tic imagine BELIEVING you support a top team that doesn't play in the worlds greatest competition....for years to come!..You have a problem?🤔😂😂😆

Caspean Sea 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆Stevie 'G' x🏆Okazaki 0...😂😆😂😆