John Barnes, Peter Beardsley Liverpool FC 1987-88 season: Highlights and news clips
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- It's rated by many Reds as the best ever season for sheer quality of football. In 1987-88, Kenny Dalglish’s side won the First Division title with a string of breathtaking performances, led by the brilliance of John Barnes and Peter Beardsley.
The Reds amassed 90 points, scored 87 goals and lifted the championship trophy with four games to spare.
In nine league matches they scored four times, twice they hit five and the Reds only failed to score in four First Division games that season.
Here, in a series of clips from videos and news bulletins from that season, are some of the highlights.
And if you enjoy this, check out our series of What We Call History podcasts discussing the season game by game with Reds who went home and away.
The Anfield Wrap’s What We Call History show - 1987/88 - visit here for more information: www.theanfieldw...
One of the best teams in the history of football
Jim Bob very stylish and creative, a shame they didn’t have the opportunity to perform on the European stage.
wow what a team. .....John Barnes is the reason I became a Liverpool fan, such an important signing for Liverpool and Barnes himself respectively
Kenny pulled a masterstroke in the summer of 87' didn't he?Barnes.Beardsley.Aldridge.Houghton.
@@smashdalde9713 Kenny assembled his best ever team that summer 87
@@jonblazeinc Same here was a big fan of Barnsey at Watford, then with the Reds, where to date I have yet to see a more gifted and electrifying team at LFC. His second goal against QPR that year is my personal favourite.
Arsenal littlewoods Cup
Everton league title
Cov FA CUP.
Liverpool wer going down hill if Barnes Beardsley and Houghton hadn't arrived and wen they did that was the best Liverpool performance ever August 87 to early 1991
This was a fantastic football team. A massive shame that English teams were banned from playing in Europe, as I feel Liverpool would have possibly added to their tally of European Cup trophies, and they would have also have had the chance to test themselves against the great AC Milan team of that time
Barnes , Aldridge & Beardsley.. What a front 3 that was ... Absolutely deadly.. Always pains me that we couldn't test ourselves against Europe's elite but...
I'm 45 now . This was the best Liverpool team I've had the pleasure of seeing. I'd pay £1.60 to stand in the Kop as a kid and some great memories. Some of the best free flowing attacking footy you could wish to see.. YNWA
and a trophy to show for it
Until now, this team is just as good or even better. It's certainly the best since them anyway only we've far better defence now.
Im sure they had a european cup in them. They were better than the likes of porto and eindhoven.
These were some of the best days of my life :)
I had become a Liverpool fan in 1986 after watching Rush and Kenny win the double.
But 1987-88 was just breathtaking.
Dare I say that Klopp has brought back a little bit of that in the last 2 years.
Up the REDS !!
John Barnes was simply unplayable that season. What a season he had. Beardo, Aldo, Stevie Nicol, Steve McMahon and Ray Houghton were different class. One of the most exciting teams ever built.
I can't remember the times my kids were born but every detail of every goal in this video is so clear to me; the build up, the finish and the commentary. Great memories for someone who clearly doesn't have a great memory.
Me too,man!No other season is burnt quite so indelibly in mind as this one.Halcyon days indeed!
Hahaha, that's a good one. Yes this season was the most beautiful one.
My favourite Liverpool team ever.I was 13 going on 14 that season,just starting the best years of my life.Being a southern red,tickets were hard to come by but the old man came up trumps and got tickets for the Charlton game early in 88'(selhurst was sold out and noisy as fuck)Steve McMahon and Digger were giants that day.Few teams could touch us that season and we went unbeaten until spring of 88' when Everton(current champions) ended our run with a narrow win at Goodison.Forest were our nearest rivals that season and beat us at the city ground the week before we beat them in the FA cup semi and then absolutely
TONKED them at Anfield 5-0 in the league return at Anfield just days later..Still fills me with rage thinking about the defeat to those fucking cloggers in the FA cup final of that year, Beardsley scored a perfectly good goal after 5 mins only to have it ruled out.Shame really,as I thought that the 87-88 side was perhaps more deserving of a league/FA cup double than the 85-86 side.
Yes I agree I was 9 in 1987 And this was the best Liverpool side I saw ..
1987 to 1991 they were brilliant
Nicol was such an underrated player and Barnes was pure class( my idol growing up)
I agree with u mate about nicol
Aldridge was indispensable to this front three combination working so well. People say Rush offered more because of the defensive work he did in the opposition 's half , but Aldridge's departure inexplicably coincided with Beardsley's dip in form and him constantly being left out of the starting 11.
I wonder how this Liverpool team would have fared against that great Milan team of the same period. We’ll never know but it would have been tasty:)
The build up play, one two football. Vintage Liverpool
This is my favourite season of Liverpool. Wonderful football. Thanks for adding. I have not seen some of these highlights on any videos or dvds. So glad you captured this.
BETTER THAN BRAZILIAN's !
Probably going to be controversial to say this, but bringing Rush back from Turin & ousting Aldo was probably the turning point for this team and Kenny let sentiment cloud his judgement a little bit.
That triple threat of Beardsley, Barnes, Aldridge, but including Houghton & McMahon, you had one of the most fearsome forward lines & a midfielder who would flatten anything in their way.
That was a side who never got their chance to challenge Gullit, Van Basten, Rijkaard and the rest of Arrigo Sacchi's superb Milan dynasty. UEFA cut their nose off to spite their faces and made European competition the poorer for it.
BTW, yes I'm a Mag but my Geordie father has been a Liverpool fan since the days of their white shorts and when Paisley's career the club was on the pitch, not in the dugout.
I grew up knowing nothing but Liverpool's relentless dominance of the league (apart from 78 & 81).
Needed a good Toffees side to give them a challenge too....
Liverpool then we’re just absolutely beautiful… My granddad was Scottish, a HUGE Liverpool fan… So is my dad, and it’s the reason my sister and I became fans… if I ever have crappy days… I’ll watch Ian Rush, and the best of Beardsley, Barnes and Aldo… unplayable club this was
Its strange when we look back at our history 1977-78-79.......1987-88-89......2017-18-19 All our best years
I always wonder how many European cups this side would have got had they been allowed to play in Europe. Best football I have ever seen at Anfield
Was in the Kop as a 14 year old for my first time in the 3-3 draw v Man Utd that season.
My memory is shot due to damage ive done to myself over the years but i can still remember that day.
Thank you for this video! As a 90s kid, glad to be able to watch our former legends in action..
Probably the best Liverpool team i seen would of dominated Europe imagin Milan against this side
Liverpool played a warm up game against the Irish Olympic X1 at Lansdowne Road in Dublin in August of 1987. I was 9 at the time and my da brought me. There was a huge air of anticipation, Kenny had reshaped the team after coming up short in the league. Liverpool won 5-1 on the day or something. The result wasn’t really important. Peter Beardsley was magnificent. Steve Nicol was playing left back and was bombing up for the first 15 minutes giving Beardsley stick for hanging on to the ball, you could see Ronnie Moran frantically gesticulating on the other side too. Beardsley was getting stick from everyone, but then the whole ground slipped into a trance watching him. He could bend time. I think he scored two and set up another. The match was abandoned with ten minutes to go when Kenny stripped off to come on. Literally thousands of kids jumped the stanchions and charged in this big mob towards him. Up the Reds.
The boys. The Liverpool team I fell in love with as a child .magic
This takes me back to being at school and giving it on the playground 😊😍
What a great side!
what a team
This is the Greatest Team English Football has ever seen.
WOW, so many memories cramed into just 24 mins, liked the England high-lights and the pop tune West End World by the pet shop boys, if you're all wondering. And then just when you thought it couldn't get any better, you end it on some classic JB strikes. Liverpool's dream team. love it.
One of the finest teams English football has ever seen.
What a season and some amazing football and memories
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spot on mate!
That Kit .....wow ! ! !
Best Liverpool top ever...I wore mine to work when it was a couple of years old and ruined it.. fucking mug I was.Gutted now!
Liverpool is the best team I have always been a Liverpool fan and love all the lads Gillian
What a class of football team it was for liverpool....one of the best...great players
the best side in europe by a long way at the time
msec Ses Liverpool lost the league in 1978 and 1981 but still won European Cups. Liverpool of late 80s could’ve won or at least compete for the title imo (if we weren’t banned obviously). Still think that tragedy in Hillsborough could’ve affected us tho... However this particular Liverpool side of 87/88 played the most exciting and beautiful Football in English history and you can’t deny it. P.S. AC Milan only won the league title once under Sacchi during his 1987-1991 tenure. Some quality sides in Italy there were back in a day...
@@obarg281 Wouldve been some battle between liverpool n them italian sides back then
If only this team could have played in Europe.
John Barnes the best classic left wing...
Barnes was unplayable in 87/88
I loved that lineup
Steve nicol pure class
What a duo 🔥🔥
August 87 to early 1991 Liverpool were the best ever