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Red Kent

Red Kent

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Reina

 

Kelly - Agger - Wilson - GloJo

 

Raul

 

Pacheco - Suso - Derek - Maxi

 

Torres

 

 

I reckon

 

I reckon you've been on illegal stuff.

Stew F

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Reckon Pacheco will get a start / sub appearance. Kenny spoke well of him after the Derby, maybe at the expense of Maxi.

Hopefully Agger is back.

 

This is a "must win" apart from anything else, i've just had £20 with some gobby Brummie t*** :unsure:

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Bailo

Bailo

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Really nervous about this. Need a win for points anyway, then there'll be the usual gobschites moaning if Kenny doesn't deliver a win soon.

Cheesecake

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---------------Reina-----------------

--Kelly Agger Wilson Aurelio---

----------Lucas Spearing---------

---Suarez----Raul-------Maxi

--------------Torres-------------------

 

Spearing - reckon Wolves is an ideal game for JS and did well against the yarddogs of everton last time out

DJS

DJS

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Apparantly, we haven't won there since '79! We're due one.

 

Should've kept Roy then - he spent the whole half season he was here breaking decade-old records....

Case

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Phil Thompson (Liverpool player 1971-85): It was a memorable occasion. We were going there (to Wolves) needing two draws to win two trophies; the League Championship and the UEFA Cup. We were going to Wolves, obviously with QPR already sitting pretty ahead of us, to get a draw that would give it to us on goal difference I think it was, but we wanted to win it in style.

 

This do-or-die battle took place on the night of Tuesday May 4, three days after Southampton had defeated Manchester United to lift the FA Cup. It had originally been scheduled for the final Saturday of the season but with Joey Jones and John Toshack called up by Wales for a European Championship qualifier in Yugoslavia Liverpool's request for a postponement was granted.

 

Such was the importance of the game 20,000 Liverpudlians invaded Wolverhampton by rail and road. Demand for tickets was phenomenal. Molineux's capacity was only 48,000 and at least 7,000 fans were reported to have been locked out.

 

 

Peter Hooton (Liverpool fan):The scenes at Molineux were amazing. It wasn't tickets in those days, it was just pay on the gate at the time and I remember getting there early. About half five there was a lot of crushing outside and because of this the gates had to be opened and all of a sudden we were in the ground!

 

 

Eric Doig (Liverpool fan): I had a ticket and was there. I think the ground capacity was supposed to be about 46,000, but various reports would say that there were at least 60,000 in the ground that night. The excitement of going down there was unprecedented and there were hundreds of cars and coaches going down. It was such a magnificent game.

 

 

Peter Hooton: Well the crowd just had the sense that we're gonna win the league and we're gonna win it and we're gonna win it at an away ground. It was just a fantastic occasion.

 

When the Liverpool players ran out they could have been forgiven for thinking they were back at Anfield. The travelling Kop had taken over the majority of Molineux and they gave the Reds a fantastic welcome.

 

 

Phil Thompson: I remember the scene and looking around it was a very, very tense night. But looking around the whole of the stadium, three sides of the stadium were red and white, not the gold and black of Wolves. It was an incredible situation and you could feel it pounding.

 

Despite the backing of such fanatical support Liverpool began the game nervously. They were unable to find their normal rhythm and it came as no surprise when Wolves took a deserved lead on 14 minutes through Steve Kindon. The title pendulum was swinging heavily in QPR's favour.

 

 

Tommy Smith (Liverpool player 1962-78): They had big Steve Kindon up front. Steve would go through a brick wall and he was whacking us. They went one up but I wasn't particularly worried, because we had plenty of time. It was just a matter of getting a goal. Once we scored that there was never going to be any doubt.

 

 

Phil Neal (Liverpool player 1974-85): A quarter-of-an-hour from the end we were still one-nil dow

n so we were still unsure. We'd hit the post, we'd done everything and it looked like being one of those nights where we weren't going to win the championship, but we finally did and went on to greater things from then on in.

 

 

Phil Thompson: They scored a great goal with a run through the middle, but we went on to score three in the last 15 minutes, it was absolutely incredible.

 

 

Tommy Smith: We turned on the pressure in the second half and really, we deserved to win the game, and we did it was as simple as that.

 

Inspired by the experience of players like Smith, Hughes, Kennedy and Keegan Liverpool gradually got back into the game, although it wasn't until the 76th minute that they managed to breach the resolute Wolverhampton rearguard. From a Smith cross Toshack nodded the ball into the path of Keegan and from close range he made no mistake firing past Pierce in the Wolves goal.

 

It was the cue for hundreds of delirious Reds to invade the pitch in joyous celebration. The relief swept through the Liverpool team. One all would be enough to take the title but Liverpool continued to sweep forward in search of the goals that would bring victory. Wolves were dead and buried and Ray Clemence did not have a single save to make during the second period.

 

With five minutes remaining John Toshack put the outcome beyond doubt. Liverpool's football at this stage was a joy to watch and from a Heighway cross, Kennedy's header found Toshack with his back to goal. The towering Welshman had time to turn before drilling his shot past keeper Pierce.

 

Another pitch invasion ensued. Victory and the title was now ensured but Liverpool had still not finished. In the final minute Ray Kennedy added the icing to the championship cake, controlling an inch perfect pass from Keegan and hammering home an equally perfect shot.

 

 

Phil Thompson: I think that everybody remembers when we got theequaliser, thenwe got the second one and the crowd kept coming on the pitch and you witness scenes when the third one goes in, the crowd are all lined up along the touchline and you were thinking that you didn't want the game to be abandoned or postponed. You were trying to get everybody off the pitch so that we could restart.

 

 

Ronnie Moran (Liverpool coach 1969-99): The main worry for us at this stage was that after every goal we scored our fans were jumping over the wall. When the third one went in - which was only with about 6 or 7 minutes to go - they were jumping on the crossbar and the crossbar was going up and down. We were thinking 'oh my god, if they break the crossbar, the game will be finished and they might say they haven't got another goal to put up and we'd have to play it again'. I think one of ours, I think it might have been Joe or Bob, went around the back of the goal and told them not to come over. That was great that night.

 

 

Seconds later the final whistle sounded and ecstatic Liverpool supporters engulfed the Molineux pitch for a fourth time. This time they were here to stay and refused to leave until manager Bob Paisley made an appearance in the director's box. It was confirmation that the fans had finally taken Paisley to their hearts.

 

 

 

 

Peter Hooton: Paisley's first title was special because there was always this feeling that some fans doubted him. My dad, who had season ticket in the Kemlyn Road since they built it, in the 60's, was one of them and I remember him saying, when Shankly resigned, "He'll do no good" meaning Bob Paisley. I said, "What do you mean?" He said, "He hasn't got the same thing that Shankly had." I always remind him of it when he's criticising people or commenting on matches, I say, "You're the person who said Paisley wouldn't win anything and he's the most successful English manager ever!

 

Twenty-nine years earlier Bob Paisley was part of the Liverpool team that virtually clinched the first post-war championship at Molineux and he told the press afterwards: "This is the greatest night of my football life."

 

 

Kevin Keegan (Liverpool player 1971-77): When you win the championship the feelings are always the same, you just want to jump up and down and kiss everybody. But that one was for the boss. He just worked quietly and effectively and got on with the job.

 

 

Phil Thompson: That was a fantastic achievement and we absolutely loved it. Coming home along the M6 and it was just choc-a-block on the motorway I don't know how many times we had to stop because of the traffic.

 

 

Ronnie Moran: Down the M6 it was 'chocca', you couldn't move and what was happening was that other buses were going back, and when they cam by there were all jumping off the buses and the cars and that and knocking on the window! But it was only inching along the traffic.

 

 

Peter Hooton: I was on the train that night, but all the way home I believe on the motorway, there was traffic jams and people were getting out of the cars and the horns were going and it was just a fantastic occasion. But the fact that it went to the last game, it can't be any more exciting, you need to score to win and Liverpool did it.

Flasher

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Notable that Cole and Wilson played the first 45 mins for the reserves yesterday. Lining them up for Wolves I reckon. Cole played 'in the hole'.

Flight

Flight

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Notable that Cole and Wilson played the first 45 mins for the reserves yesterday. Lining them up for Wolves I reckon. Cole played 'in the hole'.

 

 

Good shout. Been expecting them both to get a game some time - Kenny will keep his word about everyone getting a chance. Hopefully, we'll be back to Lucas and Raul in front of the back four.

 

 

 

 

Kelly Wilson Agger Johnson

 

 

Kuyt Lucas Cole Meireles Maxi

 

............ ...Nando

 

 

 

If only Raul would start putting his foot in that would look a decent side.

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