40 years, 1977, European Cup, Bob Paisley

[dorgie]

Great read about great days involving great men

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/liverpool-bob-paisley-british-footballs-greatest-manager-a7715951.html

 

 

[Murphman]

The best team we ever had. Not on paper maybe but on grass definitely.

[dorgie]

The best team we ever had. Not on paper maybe but on grass definitely.

 

Were you at the final or any of the European games in that campaign ? (serious question)

[Murphman]

Were you at the final or any of the European games in that campaign ? (serious question)

 

I was newly wed and saving up for a deposit on a house, absolutely potless so didn't get to many matches that year. i did make the cup final though.

[dorgie]

I was newly wed and saving up for a deposit on a house, absolutely potless so didn't get to many matches that year. i did make the cup final though.

 

that'll explain the jammy ManU goals then - Jonah

[Murphman]

that'll explain the jammy ManU goals then - Jonah

 

Don't .... I was however absolutely smack behind the goal when Case hit THAT volley, Memories of the day, the banner was the best ever 'here we go gathering cups in May'

 

 

...plus all around the Ground 'Italy! Italy! We're the greatest team in Europe and we're going to Italy!' That side was 11 telepathics all switched on,

[New York Red]

I remember that night extremely well. As much as I wasn't a Keegan fan, he ran Berti Vogts into the ground. Bonhof was scary as hell but he got completely neutralized by the second half. And Tommy Smith scored the only goal that I could ever remember for us.

 

The next year I was at Wembley. I saw Kenny get the winner against Bruges. Right in front of me.

 

How can you not just adore our club? There is no choice.

Edited May 5, 2017 by New York Red

[JRC]

Vogts was by some distance the best man-marking defender in the world at that time - Keegan destroyed him that night, not sure he was ever the same player again.

[Case]

Nowhere close to Murph's post above, but in '77 I underwent an emergency appendectomy the day before the FA Cup final. I woke up about midday to find my Mum and Dad in the Hospo. My Da kept telling me jokes which made me laugh and then immediately cry with the pain. Saw the match in the hospital ward with a few Utd fans. Cried for real when those jammy b*****ds won. Cally was sub that day too, wasn't he?

 

Days later, in Rome (the club, not me), was the best day of my life. We battered them. My main memory was of Phil Neal setting up for the pen and being worried because their tracks-legged keeper was literally 12 feet tall.

 

Loved it.

[Metro]

Vogts was by some distance the best man-marking defender in the world at that time - Keegan destroyed him that night, not sure he was ever the same player again.

My son drove down to Rome in his VW Beetle for the game. The Germans started surrounding his car and admiring it when he parked. Then they saw the picture of Winston Churchill learing at them in the back window and giving them the V for Victory sign...! We still have a chortle over that scene.

[muleskinner]

My son drove down to Rome in his VW Beetle for the game. The Germans started surrounding his car and admiring it when he parked. Then they saw the picture of Winston Churchill learing at them in the back window and giving them the V for Victory sign...! We still have a chortle over that scene.

Gravy?

 

Did you go sniffer? I've still got the programme my old man got me. Its a cracking cover.

[Falconhoof]

My son drove down to Rome in his VW Beetle for the game. The Germans started surrounding his car and admiring it when he parked. Then they saw the picture of Winston Churchill learing at them in the back window and giving them the V for Victory sign...! We still have a chortle over that scene.

Picture of Churchill?

kinell

[Metro]

Gravy?

 

Did you go sniffer? I've still got the programme my old man got me. Its a cracking cover.

No, it was my eldest. Afraid I couldn't go - working. Saw it on the box though. he now lives in Felixstowe and he has converted his cellar into a miniature LFC club shop,painted red and white with signed photos, banners, etc etc

[kop205]

 he now lives in Felixstowe and he has converted his cellar into a miniature LFC club shop,painted red and white with signed photos, banners, etc etc

 

[Crazy Horse]

I might buy that book. Do we have any clue who the people within the club who didn't like Bob were? The whole 'The Rat' thing is new to me? Was that a hangover from Shankly's departure?

[dorgie]

I might buy that book. Do we have any clue who the people within the club who didn't like Bob were? The whole 'The Rat' thing is new to me? Was that a hangover from Shankly's departure?

 

I never heard that either. John Keith has written and spoken a lot on Paisley and I don't ever recall him saying anything like that. He would've ditched the likes of Lindsay, Lawler, Boersma...others ?, pretty early in his reign, so maybe it's some of them ?

[Murphman]

 

Haha, the very second I read Sniffer's post this sprang to mind.