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22nd November 2009, 12:04
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Listen cockface: I'm a bit of a spastic
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As the sad patteren continues
for our comical friends on Merseyside...lets reflect on the last year they won the league...
I'm 39 in a couple of months...grey haired and with 2 kids... I was a teenager then....  1990 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
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22nd November 2009, 12:07
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22nd November 2009, 12:44
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I was 7 at the time, so I can't really remember the last time Liverpool won the league. Let's hope I never have to live through it, I can imagine it would be pretty much unbearable.
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22nd November 2009, 12:47
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22nd November 2009, 14:09
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I was getting more and more disappointed. Not even so much that Liverpool were winning, but that we rarely looked like we could or would. When I was a kid in 1970, I worked out that four teams; Arsenal, Liverpool, Manchester United and Everton, had all the won the title seven times each. 20 years later and Liverpool had pushed on to 18, Arsenal had even moved on to 10 and Everton 9. Even Villa had caught us up on 7.
I really started to wonder if we would ever win one again and Liverpool seemed unstoppable. It never looked as though we would get close to their total even if we did finally win it. It was awful! But thank G-d for Dalglish and Hansen's putting a stop to it, but of course even more for Sir Alex. |
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22nd November 2009, 15:09
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I spent my young years in school watching them rack up title after title. I can tell you now liverpool fans were the worst winners you could expect to meet. Everytime there was another triumph for them me and the only 2 other united fans in my class were subjected to the worst abuse. I remember gettin in fights whenever they broke into the munich song. and this was in ireland. Its bred a hatred in me for all things liverpool that will go with me to my grave. long may their pain continue
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22nd November 2009, 15:28
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22nd November 2009, 15:50
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They were on the decline by that last title win as well.
For me they lost the fear factor and the team to beat after Arsenal won the league at Anfield in 89 when Dalglish played for the 0-0. That was the last Liverpool side which truly scared and they were at their best in the first season of Beardsley, Barnes, and Alridge when they won the league by a mile and were undefeated for most of the league season before they lost late in the season to Everton. Funny to think that if Rafa gets the bullet, Dalglish often touted to make a return. He has done feck all in football since leaving Blackburn. |
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22nd November 2009, 16:23
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They last won the league in May 1990. I was born 3 months later.
So I've never seen Liverpool win the league. 
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22nd November 2009, 17:49
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If it makes you feel any better, they only picked on you from sheer bitterness because they never received that media attention or were ever held in that same awe as United. It must have really stuck in their gut that for all the medals United were always the bigger and more glamorous club. I think they seen that as unfair, because they had won so much more. Winning isn't always everything though. It ain't what you do it's the way that you do it 
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22nd November 2009, 18:40
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22nd November 2009, 18:58
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May, 1990. Margaret Thatcher was still Prime Minister, South Africa was still under apartheid and Michael Jackson was still black.
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22nd November 2009, 20:23
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The two things which gave a real idea of just how long ago that was for me:
Windows 3.0 was released. Driving Miss Daisy won the best picture oscar. Also, an industry standard for what could be called a 'multimedia PC' was reached - a 286/12MHz. I bet half the people on here have never even heard of a 286
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22nd November 2009, 20:46
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22nd November 2009, 23:19
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23rd November 2009, 01:26
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I was 14 living in Texas and didn't know much about football except the football played in the States. I remember 1990 for being the Detroit Pistons repeat title, the Cincinnati Reds knocking off the favored Athletics in the World Series, and my young Cowboys turning from a 1-15 laughing stock in 1989 to a modest 7-9 team with great potential (actually they were 7-7 and looking at a playoff spot until Aikman got his shoulder knocked out and Babe Laughing-berg subbed in - quite possibly the worst QB performances ever).
The only footy I can recall from those days was some WC highlights and the odd Italian league match. I wasn't a huge fan then, that came four years later when the WC came to the US. The only thing I knew about Liverpool was The Beatles came from there. |
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23rd November 2009, 05:47
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Man Utd went 25 years without winning a title even dropping down to the 2nd division. SAF took 6 years to win it. Liverpool will be back and you will see a change in fortunes at some point, as Arse will too.
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23rd November 2009, 05:48
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23rd November 2009, 06:50
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The nature of things dictate that what goes down will ultimately goes up. The same can be said about Liverpool's fortunes. However, from the looks of things, by the time they win the league on a consistent basis, most of us here would have died of old age, and this conversation would be meaningless. Unless..... 1) A rich middle-east investor pumps money into the club, like Man City and Chelsea. 2) There is a shake up in the management, and they starts rebuilding the squad from scratch, keeping a core of Reina, Torres, Gerrard, Johnsen and Agger. The rest are simply not good enough to win the league. This will take at least 6-7 years minimum, provided that every single buy has been successful. 
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