Man Utd 3 v Liverpool 1 - New Years Day 1989

(Full Match)

Some players in that team!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVw7LMM5zU4

One of the best games I've ever been at. Pure drama and joy. Also had some tremendous pre and post match violent scenes with some Scouse @#%&!s.

the game 24 hours later was like the polar opposite

Russell Beardsmore
Never been able to hear his name without thinking of a really hairy fanny

Originally Posted by doudou

Russell Beardsmore
Never been able to hear his name without thinking of a really hairy fanny

I’m like that with Jesse lingard, but it’s an alternative word to hairy fanny

Originally Posted by thatsfuctit

(Full Match)

Some players in that team!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVw7LMM5zU4

proper football. imagine that team against some of the teams in the prem now?

it'd be carnage.

Ah, 1989. The Year of the Bedsheet.

Originally Posted by elhombre

proper football. imagine that team against some of the teams in the prem now?

it'd be carnage.

if you put mcgrath, robson and hughes into our current team, we would sweep the board.

Originally Posted by jem

if you put mcgrath, robson and hughes into our current team, we would sweep the board.

Even at their current ages, it would add some steel. In their prime they were immense.

Originally Posted by jem

if you put mcgrath, robson and hughes into our current team, we would sweep the board.

seriously?

i remember robbo in the early years of the prem and the ECWC final and hughes a bit later on

never saw McGrath play...

United road was absolute bedlam. Munich and Shankly for 90 minutes. Inflatable planes in the away end, skeletons dotted around elsewhere.

Fair to say the game has changed somewhat.

Originally Posted by Cream

United road was absolute bedlam. Munich and Shankly for 90 minutes. Inflatable planes in the away end, skeletons dotted around elsewhere.

Fair to say the game has changed somewhat.

Yeah they got all holier than thou after April 89. Any idea why?

Originally Posted by elhombre

never saw McGrath play...

Immense, quite literally a Rolls Royce Geoff.

Originally Posted by elhombre

seriously?

i remember robbo in the early years of the prem and the ECWC final and hughes a bit later on

never saw McGrath play...

Robson and McGrath genuine world class players and would stand in any era. Robson a combination of all of Scholes and Keane's best traits, McGrath a combination of all of Rio and Vidic's best traits.

Hughes was not at their level but was strong as an ox, a real big game player, a scored some absolute beauty's.

Originally Posted by elhombre

seriously?

er... yeah. mcgrath is the best defender I've seen play (and, yes, that's including baresi and maldini). not only that, but he could play defensive midfield, too. what's not to like.

robson was the best player in the world in his prime. by the time the premier league came around, he was more like el cid.

hughes could play with his back to goal, didn't take any shit from bullies and didn't £#%&! around when shooting (although he was capable of the spectacular).

they are exactly what our team is missing.

United road reds

Was involved in a huge crush in united road that was funny rather than scary at the time but was strangely prescient of events some 3 months later. Scenes in there.

Possibly my favourite period following the reds - that 86-93 period. Went down hill steadily with increasingly shitter home fans after we won stuff.

Originally Posted by puressence

the game 24 hours later was like the polar opposite

I went to that too. Middlesbrough away. Awful town, awful ground, awful game. If memory serves Peter hopeless @#%&! Davenport scored the winner for them.

Probably as good a place as any for this and could answer a few questions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmJDXkyKCKs

Was a kid on the Stretford End fence.
Had it on betamax for years. Always fast forwarded to 71 mins. Loved Sharpie

Originally Posted by 92ToBury

Probably as good a place as any for this and could answer a few questions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmJDXkyKCKs

imagine a manager talking like that now?