I was at this game. Liverpool were a really good side under Roy Evans with the likes of Fowler, McManaman & Collymore. McAteer & Stig were great full backs going forward. Liverpool should have won the league this season. As good an all round striker as Fowler was, he played a lot of this season upfront on his own, 18 Premier League goals compared with 28 the season before, Collymore seemed less interested this season and not to mention that Liverpool were very edgy at the back and James made a number of high profile mistakes.
I was at this game. I wouldnt say that McAteer and Stig were great full backs(in fact Roy used them as wing backs, with three centre backs). Yes, we were good going forward, but it was the spine of the team which lets us down. When you read what Souness says in the book, Men in White Suits, such as the revelation that Eric Cantona was recommended to him and that a certain Peter Shemicheal wrote to the culb asking for a trial, makes me wonder how thing would have possibly turned out if Roy had been offered the job after Kenny quit in 1991.
@@DavidSmith-fs5qj I think wing backs is what I really mean. McAteer and Stig created a lot of chances and goals. I think the problem with Liverpool is Souness tried to change too much, too quickly and all the injuries didn't help. I was at uni in 2000 and a personal trainer did a talk and told us that he advised Souness against the way the players were training. Serious injuries to the likes of Whelan, McMahon, Barnes, Rush etc. Liverpool were a great team in 1990 and had Kenny stayed, I think Liverpool would have remained a top team. In 1990-1991 season, Liverpool were missing McMahon and Whelan for so much of the season and that was so costly. Selling Beardsley and later Houghton were bad moves. Should have been kept on for at least 2 or 3 seasons.
Inconsistent though they were, the Liverpool passing game under Roy Evans was great to watch. I would love to have seen Roy play Berger, Fowler and Collymore together in a three pronged attack! Steve McManaman in midfield with Michael Thomas (or maybe even Jason McAteer?) playing the 'holding role' and either Barnes or Redknapp being the other creative midfielder.
I cant believe Thomas was still at us in 96. I can remember in great detail his winner against Villa in the quarter Final, him bursting from the midfield taking on the entire Utd team to set up Walters on the last day of the season and his cup final wonder goal all in his first season But can't recall anything from him after that
He was actually one of Liverpool's better players but I personally think Roy Evans held a grudge from 1989. I saw him live many times between 1995 and 1997. His intelligence in midfield, engine, passing, tackling complimented John Barnes much better than Jamie Rednapp. The 1990s was a lost decade for Liverpool Football Club due to bad decisions made by board and managers.
@@BurnsTennis Michael Thomas was a very underrated player for Liverpool at that time. His skill and athleticism in the 'holding role' wouldn't be out of place in today's game.
It was my 15th birthday on this day, couldn't get tickets so went bowling and bought Formula 1 racing on the PlayStation. I remember going into a Dixon's and checking teletext for the score.
Not exactly. They only finished two places behind Liverpool in the league plus beat the reds twice during that season. They went on to win the FA Cup in that campaign.
@@CoolDude-jp1kj That literally makes no sense whatsoever. That is Coventry's only major honour in 138 years. Chelsea would go on to win their second European Cup Winners Cup as well as the League Cup the following season. 'You're'.
celtic tiger see his free kick v Arsenal 89 90 season, maybe 90 91. It’s on you tube. Left foot curler from left side of area. Absolute genius. Even when his legs went he was outstanding. What a guy too (see his Liam neeson comments). Love 💕 to digger barnes.
@@keithskegwin It was the 89-90 season. Also from that season there was a spectacular free-kick in the 9-0 against Crystal Palace, where it flew perfectly into the top corner with no run-up.
4 defender JK's Army most like them (Roy Evans Army). 1. TAA = Jason Mc Ateer 2. Robbo = Stig Inge Bjornbye 3. Matip = Michael Thomas 4. VVD = Sami Hyypia. Only player like Fowler that lost in LFC JK's army now.
This was Chelsea emerging from their Wimbledon obsession era where they tried hard to be the crazy gang version 2.0. Decent side but very inconsistent. As for Liverpool ... They SHOULD have won the league this season or the year before ... They were the best team in the league for two years, but didn't have the discipline to do it.
Not quite sure what you mean by 'crazy gang version 2.0'. Yeah, Dennis Wise was as feisty as ever but any resemblance to Wimbledon's uncompromising style had gone years before when Mick Harford or Tony Cascarino were leading the attack. The club had been playing much more so-called 'cultured' football from when Glenn Hoddle took over in 1993. The 1994 Cup Final line-up was like we'd recruited a load of diddy-men, with Stein, Peacock and John Spencer in attack joining Wise. So no route one football then. But Yes, talented though inconsistent. This season, 96-97, under Ruud Gullit, they started to get their act together with the odd aberration like this game, becoming rarer. They did beat Liverpool twice at Stamford Bridge during this campaign, including a famous comeback in the FA Cup, which they would go on to win.
Another season where Liverpool choked it. Poor season overall. Utd win title with 75 points!!!! Roy Evans should have been fired after this season ended,but typical lfc too loyal and stupid.
Lee Akers Chelsea had good players back then, you just needed a world class manager but back then i dont think much was out there on the manager front.
Tayeeb Hussain Chelsea we’re awful they were a yo-yo club up and down in div 1 and div 2 they were one of the worst teams in the league throughout the 80’s and early 90’’s it is only since the premier league started and the influx of investment . Liverpool are a great club with history , Chelsea are there because of a Rich owner like Man City who were exactly the same a rich owner that is wrecking football .
fa cup winners 97/2000 league cup winners 98 european cup winners cup winners 98 super cup winners beating real madrid in the final 98 all before roman..and qualified for champs league too before roman...check history first before making yourself look like an ass
Lee Akers I’m not Chelsea fan but they were pretty successful around this period. Won 2 FA cups in 4 finals between 1996-2002, the Cup winners cup, the super cup against Madrid, finished 4 points off of the title in 98/99 and got to the QFs in their first appearance in the CL losing in extra time against Barcelona. They also beat the statistically the best PL team of all time up to that point (1999/00 United) 5-1
what a bunch of cretins CFC are ... fielding a calamity defence of petrescu, clarke, lebeouf, myers, playing the opponents onside and then berating the linesman for no reason
