Football's Greatest Teams .. Liverpool

They lifted their first European Cup in 1977 and just seven years later, Liverpool Football Club won the famous trophy for the fourth time during that period. They won major honors each season and in the process established themselves as the dominant force in European

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for an English club. It was an unprecedented level of consistent success, something that can rank among the

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history. I look back now and look forward to how great they were, but at the time it seemed like you took it for granted because Liverpool at the time were the cops they played because they were the dominant team and the best players and it was an absolute disaster at the end of the season. only had one trophy No, that was what you were expected to win May 10, 1984 at the Olympic Stadium in Rome Graham Souness lifted the Liverpool Cup's fourth European championship, but the seeds of such success had been planted more than a decade earlier In 1974, Bob Paisley was promoted from assistant following the surprising resignation of one of football's most famous coaches, Bill Shankly.

He's gone and none of us wanted that, I certainly didn't want it, but he doesn't have someone who has to face this club and he said I'm the one who's going to do it, but he said what I'm going to do is I'm not going to change anything. He always felt that continuity was the right thing to do at the Football Club. Shank had been there long enough to lay the foundation and I don't just mean the foundation, you know, Football Club. We changed, you know, the training complex and they put me there. Bill Shankly made Liverpool a club that was universally known and respected and a power, but Bob Paisley turned them into a great European power, the kings of the continent, but Paisley didn't work alone on the club's commitment.

Continuity. it also applied to his backroom staff Joe Fagan Ronnie Moran and Roy Evans would end more than 100 years of service between them in two years. Paisley led the team to the UEFA Cup and League title, but the following season proved to be even more. Significant Liverpool captured the league championship again, there was still a bigger prize ahead, the European Cup final in 1977, you knew everyone was so excited, this was the culmination of everything that shakes, what Bob, what that Joe, Ronnie and the board of directors worked for it showed you. how far they developed from the team that shanks had left behind in 74 three years later there was this fantastic team much more sophisticated than what shanks had left behind, bobert moved it to that European level where he obviously needed thousands of um for the watches for the first time.

European Cup final my way Chubby Smith's car passing was polite West German champions Borussia Mönchengladbach were beaten 3-1 to win the European Court was a special event, a special event, especially for Everyone, it was a fantastic performance from Liverpool, it was one of those perfect chances. The weather was good, the families were impeccable, the rival was quite challenging but the brilliant merchants of the Blanca team had once again achieved a national and European double, only this time Liverpool will be European champions now the club team before the individual spirit was well established even the departure of talisman Kevin Keegan caused minimal fuss Kenny Dalglish arrived from Celtic for a British record transfer fee in the summer of 1977 and was joined at Anfield by two more Scots, all three would have an impact historic, great players will replace them, they came and went, but the spill in that dressing room I told no one it really was it was phenomenal my first game since Liverpool I got up the courage to train for a week no one told me what you want me to do and a big booming voice I can't tell you the first two words he said, but the second one was bad and we paid all this money for you and you were asking me to play football and I left and at that moment all the boys were looking at me laughing. so I was never a smoker the first day he came to train, the rides are hungry for success five years, well it must have been the year before so that's what they need.

Liverpool reached the European Cup final again in 1978 and against FC Brugge at Wembley. bidding to become the first British team to retain the Kenny Dalglish trophy was proving to be a bargain. I'm about to do it on my own. The golden side, I don't know, is telling my chapter and something I notice is what my chest and then I review. my head distantly Boston one of the Oh like Heather wrote when they cleared me up a bit about the angry room and just pushed it through MSP people can run away from another angle but quickly from Isabella stopped talking I didn't gain anything when the mentor heroes are welcome back Massey sighing, it was becoming familiar.

The manager obviously tricks him and manages who the players had the most interaction with each day. They kept it very simple. There was no magic formula. Great players sacrificed anything individually for the team. I never like to run a little too much, but I really enjoyed the trail and you know, the laughter and the togetherness that's not very nice, are you really when I see you in a boy that you never used to stand here? I cried, enjoy your hard work and team. The spirit was not enough on its own. Trevor Francis regularly faced the Reds.

Any good team is built from the back and I think people like you know Clemens, a great goalkeeper. Alan Kennedy was an attacking left back, he was a fantastic guy and he was a great player, the goals he scored and, obviously, the great Cup finals, a great life, a good defender and great pace, and that's what a fullback wants, there was Neil, what a sign and he was people don't realize that he's 23 years old, he's played all these games and all these medals of mine, it was absolutely wonderful . Phil Thompson from Kentucky, I think the best partnership was Luke Tom when I thought he was telepathic, I mean, we played like the team did and for Julie the game was missed by 16 goals and it was just using some alleles as a clue.

My strengths were definitely we were positioning and reading and with the ball and he was the same. Terry McDermott, from central midfield, we had a bet at the start of each season that in central midfield the food would drop at more schools, in short you would get six here, you get 26 and by Christmas we would be extending their hand. not very clear, you know, sit in the front, no lights, couldn't turn down a bet every preseason, every Christmas, I paid off the McDermott case as soon as Sri Candy they had everything there and then they went in there so that the force that was brewing there Rick will finish.

He was the best, but there are few players, Percy, but above all, they were all totally comfortable on the ball and I don't think there's ever been a better man to feel Cortana and up front, they had a vanguard that you already know. dog lead and rush, I mean, those two will go down, they are two of the all-time greats at Anfield, so we are talking, but an integral part of the success story, the Vitam staff were totally partners, everything What do you know, we're in this together, it's not. It's just not that the players are there, I mean there's a lot of things if you'd known it was them and us, but when it came to the martyrs on the field it was like everyone together, the bike room staff, everyone was there. involved in it, like you.

I know Joe Vega brought it to Roy Evans, they were absolutely fantastic behind the scenes, just the reminders reminding you what your job is, the badge and you're playing for nothing, it's complicated for them, we just go out and try to do the simple things we try approve. this to each player individually and they integrate it into a team effort and then they go out and do it on and off the field the players knew what was required of the new one even if the new pre-match

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were sometimes quite unorthodox the 20 Liverpool Look at the two o'clock race, the 215 went up to 230 Aires and if it was five furlongs it was the 235 and but the thing is like four players went into the bathroom and then the mines that you are looking for because Bob would be watching the races too They reach 35, so no one I know usually touches my toes.

Go and play, always have a little sense towards, I mean, with reason, what is right for you, then it's okay, that moment in the local we give it to you. a responsibility that I think is missing in the modern game, the only thing they told us before with it when it sounded, was three o'clock, be together and we always work when you are under pressure, you are under pressure as neither as a team nor as an individual, it is League titles followed in 1979 and 80, as Liverpool struggled to maintain dominance. Brian Clough, the hungry Nottingham Forest team, was putting strong pressure on them to win the biggest titles.

The rivalry flourished, but there was also a mutual respect that the Liverpool team never gets credit for. be one of the best

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not only at the national level but also in European football, where they have had to come and play a national program as intense as any other and still achieve a great performance in the European games, but he really is a player really good, really, really. good players and some really great players, they could have gone anywhere in the world and gotten any team anywhere in the world at that time and that, along with honesty and hard work, made them a formidable force.

Hey Osgood aside and they have held that European trophy high and were as good as any during this period of relentless dominance, the Football League Cup had remained elusive. Alan Hansen's winner in the 1981 replay final against West Ham put an end to that particular drug; The same season also saw Liverpool advance to the quarter-finals of the Football League Cup. European Cup, where no sooner had a hat-trick helped them to a 6-1 aggregate win against CSKA Sofia, the resulting semi-final was an epic struggle against West German champions Bayern Munich. I'm on the field Paul Breitner said some derogatory comments after the game We cross here those leaflets and no one has seen the stadium, so we come to a couple of Liverpool fans who are a leak, they claim what was in a leaflet and, of course, it is the road to Paris at the end.

Well I've never seen a Liverpool dressing room more excited than me, like unbelievable, two substitutes had been used and then Dave Johnson suffered a hamstring problem and there was Luqman on the right wing, so ten men Kenny they were gone and we scored and River Lakes Corden in the last minute, but it was the best dressing room ever seen in that room, but Bayern Munich's door was made and everyone went crazy to be a part of it, it was very special, no like a Munich, there was one of the most adorable. sister 113 eye and ear cooked Europeans we all had some great ones, the wrong one in particular was magnificent, but tonight I thought it was our best performance and even better was to come as once again Liverpool supporters traveled in large numbers to coasts foreigners.

Alan Kennedy's Lake The goal and Paris was enough to beat the Spanish giants, Real Madrid. Remember Alan Kennedy's passing. Remember to see it. Remember: the good thing after what I was for the most part, he always had a very good sale, at least the sad part was bikini. remember Bob Paisley said in 77 in the room they say they never had a drink, see, they want you to drink in the atmosphere and enjoy the moment and remember, I never hear the porpoises running in Liverpool at that time they really believed in us and then we believed in them and I think we showed it because there were too many of them and I flew and there was never that feeling coming from the crowd anywhere in the stadium when maybe we scored a goal behind our word we lost, we didn't play well, we weren't playing well. that that was the negativity that was coming onto the field, it was a great place to play, I mean the same thing, for example, when you walk through the tunnel, I mean, I still play the same way, as always, on the side, on the edge.

I just can't stop playing that same thing with both hands. It was a period during which Anfield had become something of a fortress. During the nine seasons, from 1975 to 1984, the club played 263 competitive home games and lost only 15. This included an 85-match unbeaten run between 1978 and 1981. The trophies continued to arrive. 1982 brought another league title as Liverpool claimed their 13th championship at home to Tottenham and the same opponents were on the receiving end as Liverpool lifted their second consecutive League Cup at Wembley. The same season, a31's success was achieved with two overtimes, now one of football's deadliest double axes was in full swing.

Ian Rush had joined the club from Chester City in May 1980, his partnership with Kenny Dalglish has peaked since then, he just runs into that space, I didn't think anything of it, I thought there was no way the ball could get was in that space, so I didn't go when the ball was in that space and he got a little mad at me fornot be there. I figured instead of getting another roll from him the next time he comes, you know I'm going to run into that space, not many people can plant the bombs, that space becomes one of them and he wasn't even looking outside of time. , ought. probably plays less a particle and associates a Liverpool football club because his movement was brilliant, this piece is very sharp and could end up to the right or to the left even here because you can get a stone eagle stance here and soft, just you could have gotten 25 and on a regular basis and more, but I think I could have scored like those when I called.

I don't think there's been anything like it before or since. The 1982-83 campaign found the Dalgleish and Rush partnership at their most prolific as a pair. They contributed 42 league goals between them. Rush produced the first Merseyside derby hat-trick in almost 50 years, when he scored four in a five million demolition of Everton. Another goal from the Welshman this time in the 3-1 victory against eventual runners-up Watford, perfectly illustrated. the intuitive relationship between the Liverpool leader, simply, the last intermediate line returned the warning, he was making fun of me, but in um, he demands a free lane and just plays the ball and behind, I think it was the boy's name, your son, your shoes, that's all, I can't share it without chocolate.

As I say, if his name was difficult, quite simple because he has a pump of movement. Paisley's final season in charge ended in typically glorious style with two more trophies secured. Liverpool won another league title at Wembley. An excellent drone of equal efforts sealed a 2-1 victory against Manchester United and another League Cup before paying a well-deserved tribute to the outgoing manager. Captain Graeme Souness assured the Paisley striker that he would lift the trophy. Bob Paisley retired after leading Liverpool to 20 trophies in just nine seasons. His 44 years of service embodied the values ​​of continuity and giving back and it was natural that tradition dictated the identity of his successor.

We like continuity and if there is one word in our language that describes Liverpool FC it is stability. We don't like change for change's sake, of course, when Bob finally decided to call it a day in 1983 and they decided right away that Joe Fagin was the man and he was you were a great football player, great common sense of evil taste, you are not a problem, see, he was a great coach, again he remained a simple man. In a few words, give us the responsibility, without a doubt, he passed everything on to the veteran players. You know he would do well with very young guys alone and you know it's up to us to make sure they are taken care of and in a very, very intelligent way. football person maybe I'm doing an injustice here a very intelligent man Fagin's first season saw Notts County's 15th championship made official in early May the league cup had already been won in March Graham played in the first ever final of cup side completely messed up in the European Cup Liverpool made steady progress Ian Russia's first leg winner was crucial in helping them overcome Portugal and fika ahead of a tough semi-final against Romanian champions Dinamo Bucharest on a nan pitch was obtained the victory by one and nothing, but it was not the only thing that spoke At the point I involved one of their players in the first game, they had been a man marking me, they took my shirt, I was just going to pass, then I lost my temper and I did something I should have done and I ended up having to leave.

I'm sure about 15 or 20 miles ago a hostile atmosphere was waiting for them in the second leg in Bucharest in the warm-up, every time we were on the wall in a positive way, the crows were like punishing them, they hit you and give a great performance , and I mean, obviously. She was the captain that night and it was a great display of leadership, 2-1, she, wow, and we got away with it, but it was good, it was great, it was exciting, the reward was a Cup final match. Europe against AS Roma. The odds were stacked against Liverpool as the venue for the game was the Italian champions' Olympic Stadium, big man Craig Johnson remained unfazed.

I've been a believer and the great singer was Chris Rhea and he had this song and he did it wisely but we I love it and you know we'll start in the tunnel and we were looking at the players and he just started singing it so I really start this and they look at us and say well, I think it affected them. I think it affected their more than relaxed because they look good, this is a European Cup final, we have more doubts that we will win now, who else thought we had no chance for me?

Everyone knows we won this, it was just that we didn't talk. but I know that's how I saw it and I know that's how everyone sees it, so that lets you know that we're going to win on the other side and Rush almost got there, but if I cut the film, Phil Neal's early goal was disallowed just before the break. There were no further goals, which meant that this was the first European Cup final to be decided on penalties. Allen Kennedy was a hero again. Joël Fagin's first season and chance saw him make a historic trip to the European Cup League Championship and The League Cup was the culmination of an eight-year period in which Liverpool Football Club confirmed its status as two giants of European football, although Slayer had new triumphs between 1976 and 1980 to remain a golden era for Liverpool Football Club throughout.

It was just too fast for me. I loved. I remember loving it, but what I would give if I came back in about a year is a 27 or a game playing for Liverpool. It was those lights, you know, who had them. good players good habits good camaraderie everything was fantastic the laughter the laughter low and the aggression was just that was the best part it was really the work so much the one of them was the changer it will be a big heartbreak it was a team and as you will see my team will get more success and then I will individualize you.