Liverpool 1989/90.

[Trumo]

The entire 1989/90 league season on video. We were creaking alarmingly at times, but still had the fortitude to see it through and win the title back off Arsenal. And this is the first time I've seen Ronnie Whelan's own goal since then. At the end of this season I hope to see Kenny celebrating like that again.

 

The links don't embed properly so I've added the URLs here.

 

LFC 1989-90_part1.mp4 - YouTube

 

LFC 1989-90_part2.mp4 - YouTube

 

LFC 1989-90_part3.mp4 - YouTube

 

LFC 1989-90_part4.mp4 - YouTube

 

LFC 1989-90_part5.mp4 - YouTube

 

LFC 1989-90_part6.mp4 - YouTube

 

LFC 1989-90_part7.mp4 - YouTube

[Lee909]

Repped.

I'll watch this Friday night at work.

[Cliff T. Beast]

if i could rep, i would. top find

[Cliff T. Beast]

quality theme tune as well!

[Dan]

nice one trumo,few beers tonight..the match and now this.Made my night.

 

plus the theme sounds like either an old video game or porn

[Cliff T. Beast]

1987/88 is on there as well.

[VladimirIlyich]

1987/88 is on there as well.

 

Now that's worth watching.

[FannyBurps]

i was shitting green then, watch these after the match!

[gumps]

Happy days indeed.

 

Watching that 9-0 v Palace and the subsequent travesty of the cup semi final always makes me wonder if we could've got to the final we could maybe have stopped the Ferguson era at birth.

 

How different things might have been then?

[Block109'er]

Was that the only penalty Molby ever missed for us?

[Thants]

Suarez is the best Beardsley-esque player LFC have had since, well, Beardsley.

[zigackly]

Suarez is the best Beardsley-esque player LFC have had since, well, Beardsley.

 

First player to deserve the number seven since Beardsley.

[Thants]

Rosario. Forgot about him.

[Hermes]

 

Was that the only penalty Molby ever missed

 

No. He missed a 12 month ban when he drove home one night after only two pints.

[Ian Sea]

My first game was the Sheffield Wednesday home game that season. Great to see the goals again, pretty much as I remember them.

[Kevin D]

I think we won the title in spite of Dalglish.

[zigackly]

I think we won the title in spite of Dalglish.

 

If this isn't a wind up then fuck off and die.

[zigackly]

I suppose I should qualify that outburst by saying that although Kenny wasn't at his best as a manager that season, it turned out later that he was almost certainly suffering from depression after dealing with the aftermath of Hillsborough, so when I see people criticising him for not adequately refreshing a team which was going into decline, I go completely fucking nuclear.

 

Having thought about it a bit more, I'm sure you were on the windup though Kevin?

[silverlining]

Happy days indeed.

 

Watching that 9-0 v Palace and the subsequent travesty of the cup semi final always makes me wonder if we could've got to the final we could maybe have stopped the Ferguson era at birth.

 

How different things might have been then?

 

I had a season ticket for that period, and I do recall that Palace game vividly. Especially at half-time, when my cousin jokingly said:

 

"Are you going to buy the video? Liverpool 10 - Crytal Palace 0"

 

Which was quite prescient given it was only 3-0 at that point.

 

As for your general point, we ground that title out and it was obvious that squad was on its last legs, and the 4-4 was the clearest signal of that.

[Kevin D]

I suppose I should qualify that outburst by saying that although Kenny wasn't at his best as a manager that season, it turned out later that he was almost certainly suffering from depression after dealing with the aftermath of Hillsborough, so when I see people criticising him for not adequately refreshing a team which was going into decline, I go completely fucking nuclear.

 

Having thought about it a bit more, I'm sure you were on the windup though Kevin?

 

Yes, although I failed to quote Cliff's post it was the 87/88 season I meant, but as you point out it was probably ill advised.

 

Should make it clear that Kenny is a great hero of mine and any jokes I make("we won in spite of..." has been a popular remark to make whenever we've won for the past three years) should be seen with that context. I'm qualifying all this because if someone said that and they weren't joking, then I would have lost it, too.

[zigackly]

Yes, although I failed to quote Cliff's post it was the 87/88 season I meant, but as you point out it was probably ill advised.

 

Should make it clear that Kenny is a great hero of mine and any jokes I make("we won in spite of..." has been a popular remark to make whenever we've won for the past three years) should be seen with that context. I'm qualifying all this because if someone said that and they weren't joking, then I would have lost it, too.

 

Cheers for the clarification. I suspected that somewhat as I wrote my initial response but I still blew my top.

 

As an aside by the way, I'm not a great believer in having heroes but that's what Kenny is to me. I absolutely love the bones of him. He ranks in my affection somewhere just below my immediate family. I find it very difficult to countenance any criticism of him at all, which is probably going to get me into some arguments in the coming years!

[silverlining]

Cheers for the clarification. I suspected that somewhat as I wrote my initial response but I still blew my top.

 

As an aside by the way, I'm not a great believer in having heroes but that's what Kenny is to me. I absolutely love the bones of him. He ranks in my affection somewhere just below my immediate family. I find it very difficult to countenance any criticism of him at all, which is probably going to get me into some arguments in the coming years!

 

Same here. Fucking pathetic really, but I can't help it. I sometimes watch his interviews on LFCTV and get a lump in my throat.

[zigackly]

Same here. Fucking pathetic really, but I can't help it. I sometimes watch his interviews on LFCTV and get a lump in my throat.

 

Aye, I know that feeling. Makes it very hard to be entirely objective.

[Guest davelfc]

Cheers for the clarification. I suspected that somewhat as I wrote my initial response but I still blew my top.

 

As an aside by the way, I'm not a great believer in having heroes but that's what Kenny is to me. I absolutely love the bones of him. He ranks in my affection somewhere just below my immediate family. I find it very difficult to countenance any criticism of him at all, which is probably going to get me into some arguments in the coming years!

 

You're certainly not alone, I'm exactly the same. I could have written that word for word.

[Block109'er]

Could you even put a price on John Barnes (88-90) in today's money?