05 May 2019 09:11:18
Lads.

On this day, 29 years ago, we won the league away at Coventry City

Barnes scores a hatrick and we win 6-1.

1.) 05 May 2019
05 May 2019 09:20:11
the good ole days
barnes would have made this cyrrent team even better.

2.) 05 May 2019
05 May 2019 09:44:08
I remember going to this game, there was some trouble on the train coming home from the Coventry fans. can't believe its been so long ago, when you say 29 yrs it really hits home. I remember that they actually took the lead when stevie nicol was chasing shadows and got caught out of position by Kevin Gallagher. rushie scored one from outside the box. Ronnie rosenthal scored a brace too if memory serves. Molby was running things from his customary position of centre circle. What a player digger was. Imagine him playing in today's team.

3.) 05 May 2019
05 May 2019 09:58:22
Not even Salah and Mane can compete with Barnes, and that's not having a knock at them. The man was the best player in England by a long way for the 1st few years he was with us. Brilliant to watch, loved watching him and Gazza back then.

4.) 05 May 2019
05 May 2019 10:02:57
Ohyoubeauty, no Nicol that day, mate.
Starting line up
Grobbelaar
Hysen
Venison
Ablett
Gillespie
Staunton
Molby
Rosenthal
Rush
Barnes
McMahon
Subs were Tanner and Marsh (and people say we haven't any strength in depth now! )

5.) 05 May 2019
05 May 2019 10:12:51
Nicky Tanner, couldn't trap a bag of cement.

6.) 05 May 2019
05 May 2019 10:37:06
In my opinion, only Rush and Barnes (maybe Molby as an occasional ‘luxury’ player) from that team would get into our current team. How times have changed!

{Ed001's Note - Staunton at his best would get in.}

7.) 05 May 2019
05 May 2019 10:49:14
Stephen Staunton had a fantastic left foot lad's and a class defender.

8.) 05 May 2019
05 May 2019 10:52:24
Steve McMahon was a winner, he would get in our midfield.

9.) 05 May 2019
05 May 2019 10:59:19
Steve Nicol Steve Staunton Gary Gillespie Steve McMahon Jan Molby Ian Rush John Barnes are all as good if not better in the positions they played as the players in our team now. just my opinion.

10.) 05 May 2019
05 May 2019 11:10:42
Steve McMahon would 100% get in our midfield now too.
Great player, very underrated for some reason.
I’d have Brucie over Alisson, and Hysen and Gillespie were better players than Matip and Lovren.
So that’s basically the entire 1990 side then, lol.

11.) 05 May 2019
05 May 2019 11:15:09
Ed001, would you have him as a left back or as a midfield player? Personally I prefer Robbo at left back but we could perhaps do with a left footed midfield player in the current team.
Other posters, good shouts for the likes of McMahon, Gillespie, Nicol, etc and they were all proven winners which the current crop are not - yet. I just think that before long the current team, collectively and individually, will prove how very special they are. It is an interesting debate which makes for a bit of fun on a lazy Sunday morning and we are all, of course, absolutely right in our preferences.

{Ed001's Note - doesn't matter, Stan was excellent in either position. Nicol would walk into almost any team in history, he was an exceptional player.}

12.) 05 May 2019
05 May 2019 11:26:53
Molby wouldn't get in? Maybe because he was a big barrelled, but on passing and technical ability? An absolute shoe in for me.

13.) 05 May 2019
05 May 2019 11:35:33
The Juicer, when we signed Hysen from under Utd's noses, I thought we were getting a world beater, I soon found out we weren't. No way would he get anywhere near our starting 11. I remember him getting sent off against Norwich after being given the run around. His legs had gone when he joined us. I'd have both Lovren and Matip over him. He was an exceptionally good looking bloke though!

14.) 05 May 2019
05 May 2019 11:53:53
The Juicer, each to his own mate but Bruce over Alisson? Even though the former is a self-confessed match fixer (although he later retracted the confession)? And while he made some unbelievable saves, have you forgotten all those Brucie blunders that cost us goals? I wouldn’t have him near my team but that’s the beauty of this kind of debate, nobody can be wrong.

15.) 05 May 2019
05 May 2019 12:09:41
Agree with you about Bruce, Wirral.
Alisson all day long.
Didn't miss too many games in 89/ 90 and to be honest, I honestly think that there is only Barnesy and Nicol who would be guaranteed a starting place today.
But, this is all about opinion, which is what this site is all about.

16.) 05 May 2019
05 May 2019 12:11:09
Hysen was 30 when we bought him as an experienced replacement for the aging Alan Hansen. Hansen and Gillespie were in and out of the team through injuries. I think he was a good short term buy and we did win our last title with him in the side.
He looked a lot better when he had Hansen next to him, but who didn't. Hansen and Lawrenson, now that partnership was made in heavenVan Dyke would be sitting on the bench, if we had them 2.

17.) 05 May 2019
05 May 2019 13:08:18
I know he wasnt here long, but what a signing Ronnie Rosenthal was for us that year.

18.) 05 May 2019
05 May 2019 13:38:02
I'd take Gillespie, Staunton, Molby, McMahon, Barnes and Rush from that team.
Barnes may have to play deeper to accommodate Salah, Mane and Rush but there's goals in that team.

19.) 05 May 2019
05 May 2019 14:15:51
Tylerano, VVD on the bench? Not for me, I’d have Big Virgil alongside either Hansen or Lawrenson - unless all three played in a back 3.

20.) 05 May 2019
05 May 2019 14:26:02
That season above we finished Top with 79 points, if we beat Wolves next Sunday we finish with 79 Reversed which is 97 Points!

Going back to last night Sturridge was on loan at West Brom at Season End, Shaqiri was Playing for Stoke at Season End (Subsequently Relegated), and Divock Origi was on a Season Long Loan at Wolfsburg?

21.) 05 May 2019
05 May 2019 15:24:16
Rome I stand corrected, memory clearly not as good as I'd hoped haha. Little baby totally agree with you about Ronnie rosenthal, what an impact he had. Remember his hatrick against Charlton. Left foot right foot and a header. But let's forget about a certain game against a Midlands club where he got his boots mixed up.
Another name from then that I believe would be ideal for today's team is Ronnie whelan, he never got the credit I thought he deserved. Macca and Jan amongst others were great but I think klopp would have loved whelan as a player.

22.) 05 May 2019
05 May 2019 16:17:26
Ohyoubeauty, I’m with you on Ronnie Whelan. He got some ridiculous stick from some fans at Anfield and in the letters page of the Football Echo (thankfully there was no social media in those days) but I think you are right that Klopp would love him. Worked hard, great positional sense, good passer, weighed in with a few goals - what’s not to like about Ronnie Whelan?

{Ed025's Note - very much like milner now for liverpool, i liked ronnie..

23.) 05 May 2019
05 May 2019 16:40:02
Even better about Whelan he use to run a pub as well called the "Sportsman" it was in Kirkdale.

P. S. Great Day Today man utd NO European Champions League next year, where is Whelans Pub?

24.) 05 May 2019
05 May 2019 16:42:29
Oh, and Ronnie Whelan was dead hard, too.

{Ed025's Note - not as hard as the time he got off some so called supporters mate..

25.) 05 May 2019
05 May 2019 16:40:30
Venison. the man with the most appalling dress sense in the entire world.

I once saw him wearing a suit jacket, which had big white feathers emblazoned on it.

Completely bizarre.


What a first eleven though.

26.) 05 May 2019
05 May 2019 16:42:33
WW, Bruce had eliminated most of those errors by that stage of his career.
He wasn’t as tall as Alisson but more athletic and, dare I say it, better with the ball at his feet.
We got very vulnerable to high balls around that time but with Van Dijk in front of him, Grobelaar would be class in today’s game.
It might be looking back with rose-tinted spectacles, but that side was 20 years ahead of its time.

Arsenal were long ball merchants (who remembers being in the Kop whistling at Lukic taking the ball well out of his area and punting it up to Smith? ), Man Utd dirty baskets, Wimbledon say no more. Liverpool kept the ball on the deck. Always, and I mean always, played short corners. Happy days. We were blessed then.