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    Quote Originally Posted by Letters View Post
    Fair enough
    But yeah, I remember it was 2-1 at half time and it felt like it was all going to slip away. Very important win to get us back on trap and that goal was obviously the pick of the bunch.
    Friday lunchtime game on Good Friday (three days after the Champions League exit)

    I don’t think the league was in doubt by that point (pretty much as secure as Liverpool are now) but I think the unbeaten record was something commentators had started to take as a serious possibility and of course for the media the fact that we’d lost two games back to back (in a season where we lost only six in all competitions) it was a sign of our impending collapse.

    Apart from the fact Liverpool have lost albeit only once in the league, actually the parallels between us in 2004 and them now in terms of hype and being brought back to earth are noticeable

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    I still remember United fans claiming that they would have won the league if not for Rio Ferdinand “forgetting” to provide a sample of piss.

    4 of the six games they lost in the league after his suspension were games that they lost 1-0 (Portsmouth, Blackburn, Liverpool, Wolves) so I’m struggling to see how their best centre back being unavailable caused that

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    Quote Originally Posted by HCZ_Reborn View Post
    I don’t think the league was in doubt by that point (pretty much as secure as Liverpool are now)
    Nothing like Liverpool now. I had a check and we were 4 points ahead of Chelsea. We did have a game in hand, the Liverpool game was the game in hand - or we certainly played before them. Had we lost. 4 points with 7 games to go. Certainly fuckupable. After the week we'd had we needed a result to calm nerves and get us back on track.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Letters View Post
    Nothing like Liverpool now. I had a check and we were 4 points ahead of Chelsea. We did have a game in hand, the Liverpool game was the game in hand - or we certainly played before them. Had we lost. 4 points with 7 games to go. Certainly fuckupable. After the week we'd had we needed a result to calm nerves and get us back on track.
    Huh

    For some reason I thought we were much further ahead than we were (we finished 11 points ahead of Chelsea by end of season) then again they lost on Easter Monday I think it was against Villa three days after this game

    And then they ballsed up the semi finals of the champions league against Monaco

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    Utterly insane than Henry never won the Ballon D'or in that period. I guess because of our failings in Europe, but still. I maintain he was the best player on the planet at the time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Letters View Post
    I guess Anfield '89 is the most significant for me in that it kinda changed my interests and therefore life. I was an Arsenal fan before that but at arms length (like now, I guess).
    But that was the moment when I thought "holy shit, football is incredible!". I remember daydreaming about that goal for years afterwards - it still gives me chills.
    And looking back, it wasn't a great game. But that moment... Only sport can produce things like that.
    Inspired by that, the season after I started going to games and in 90-91 dad and me had season tickets and we saw all the Wenger glory years. It was a big part of our father/son relationship so I guess that was quite an important moment personally.
    I think I quite clearly said Anfield 89 doesn't count

    Funnily enough though, and no doubt a reason I am on here now, I grew up idolising the Arsenal team of the late 90s/early 2000s. So obviously separate to Liverpool, it was Henry's flick goal against United, Bergkamp vs.. everyone, Henry's goal against us when he drifted past Carragher after beating half our team, but then equally when we rarely got one over on you so say the 2001 FA Cup which was an utter robbery, or Mellor's winner in 2004. As much as that I think partly you were the only rivals to beating United. And that made you ok in my book.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shaqiri Is Boss View Post
    I think I quite clearly said Anfield 89 doesn't count
    You did.
    But it was a significant moment in my life - not because of the game itself, but that moment and the effect it had on me. One of those effects being that I was that the final in 2001
    It was robbery, but if you don't put the ball in the net enough times...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Letters View Post
    You did.
    But it was a significant moment in my life - not because of the game itself, but that moment and the effect it had on me. One of those effects being that I was that the final in 2001
    It was robbery, but if you don't put the ball in the net enough times...
    Still doesn't count
    Tbh as I wasn't born in 89 it doesn't really have much of an impact on me. Still never seen the goal though. Actually I feel like that isn't true, wouldn't be able to picture it in my mind though.
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    This doc is thoroughly recommended for anyone who hasn't seen it... (maybe not SIB )


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    Quote Originally Posted by Mac76 View Post
    This doc is thoroughly recommended for anyone who hasn't seen it... (maybe not SIB )

    I watched this just before Xmas I think and it was interesting to get the players perspective, the only other time I’ve read about the players feelings about the game was Tony Adams’ “Addicted” book. Which from what I can remember, George Graham had done his best to play down the significance of the game to the players (in order presumably to take the weight off their shoulders) but yet apparently told the players in the dressing room at Anfield that he thought that they would win 3-0.
    This was despite the fact that we hadn’t won at Anfield at all since 1974.

    Would have been interesting how things might have gone down if Hillsborough hadn’t happened, it caused the pause of the league season for two weeks. I’m not even sure if it was meant to be the last fixture of the season to be honest or whether it had been re-scheduled.

    Had we beaten Wimbledon and Derby we would have gone there only needing a draw. But you wonder how much the Liverpool players were affected by Hillsborough, the expectation to win the title for the dead fans.

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