This was the first season I started getting interested in football. I chose Manchester United mainly because I already had a replica kit from 1979 when I was very young. But yeah, Ron Atkinson's team played some of the best stuff ever. Shame he made all those blunders though. He let Peter Beardsley go, without even playing him. He also had the chance to sign Gary Lineker, but chose Terry Gibson & Peter Davenport instead and let Arnold Muhren go before he was past his best, he later won a European Championship medal 3 seasons after he was sold on. Then Alex Ferguson came in and had basically rebuild the entire team around Bryan Robson, who was the only player he kept. It was a long road to that night in Barcelona, but worth it.
I remember watching this game, haven't seen it since that day... 37 years ago(!). United were on fire, Liverpool just weren't in it. Should have been four or five.
The noise at Old Trafford when we scored was described by a scouser I know as being "like a bomb had gone off." Just listen to that noise when we score, come close and the final whistle blows. Mint. Despite being the best team in Europe for much of the 80s, Liverpool's arses fell out when they played United at OT and even Anfield.
Being Consistent was the key to liverpool winning the league in them days,we'd beat all the leading teams then go to God awful sides the next game and lose/draw....Notts county/Stoke/Manchester city spring to mind
Yep, three points is three points, and you can win the league without beating many of the other top teams, as United did a few times under Ferguson. But you can't win it without beating the other 15 regularly.
The only other standout game that I can remember Arthur Graham having as a United player was in December 1983 at home to Spurs when he scored twice in a 4-2 win
During that season, Man.Utd. did very well against the big teams, such as Liverpool, Arsenal, Spurs and Barcelona in the CWC. The problem with United was, was that they came horribly unstuck against lesser ranked teams such as Ipswich Town and Notts.County
@ Back in those days, Manchester United lacked a genuine predatory striker in the calibre of say Ian Rush who could guarantee your side 25-30 goals a season
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@@jeremyslaney5644 yep, I remember that for sure. I never understood why. Apart from McClair's first season, we didn't have that until Cole.
glapots That’s right. But I think Man United beat Liverpool in the charity shield, and both league games that season, so that’s why they were hopeful. But like you say, the cream always rises to the top lol....
@@Mozartboy55 during that particular season, Manchester United beat Liverpool 2-0 in the Charity Shield, 1-0 at Old Trafford, and the game at Anfield finished 1-1. So Manchester United might have won the battle, but Liverpool definitely won the war
24 seconds in, Liverpool fans singing "who's that dying on the runway". Might wan't to remember that when they're asking for their dead to be respected
Utd often had great games against Liverpool in the 80s, but it was Liverpool who always walked away with the trophies, although Utd turned the tables in the 90s and 2000s.
I liked Alan Hansen as a Pundit and a person, likeable guy. But I can't understand how he ever made it to the highest level. He always had sturdy Centre Backs partnering him to tidy up after his mistakes.
@@stel3209 Try watching a compilation of his howlers you 🔔🔚! Start by searching Russia v Scotland 1982 - perhaps the same match that ENDED his Scotland career. 🤣🤣🤡🤡💩💩
@@markreville6917 And you're a font of all knowledge about Footballers? 🤣🤣🤡🤡 Try watching Russia's equaliser against Scotland in World Cup 1982. He was good, but not great.
Liverpool supporter. I've been re-watching some of the league and FA Cup games between the two teams from the early and mid-1980's. I realise United were applying pressure and that pitches in those days cut up fairly easily (making footing and movement trickier), but Liverpool look weak in defense in these games. There's clumsiness in clearances, loose passing, poor positioning, etc. It's not just United being up for the games. Too many errors in Liverpool's play.
5:32 ...and the balance of power maybe shifting :). Manchester United could beat anyone back then, 3:0 against Barcelona comes to my mind for ex., but could not win the league. I waited for another ten years for it to happen. And I am prepared to do it all over again.
+eddie lasowsky Complete nonsense. United were in a supposed 2 horse race with Liverpool most seasons (where we eventually finished 3rd or 4th). It was only the late 80s when we were truly shit and in the bottom half.
Mi Ke Once in a 2 horse race out of 7 seasons is hardly 'most seasons', is it? Season 77/78: Liverpool second United 10th Season 78/79: Liverpool 1st United 9th Season 79/80:Liverpool 1st United 2nd Season 80/81: Liverpool 5th United 9th Season 81/82: Liverpool 1st United 3rd Season 82/83: Liverpool 1st United 3rd Season 83/83: Liverpool 1st United 4th
+eddie lasowsky Why are you including positions from the 70s? The issue is the 80s and you're talking shite again. United: 80/81: 8th. 81/82: 3rd. 82/83: 3rd. 83/84: 4th. 84/85: 4th. 85/86/4th. And then the low positions start from the late 80s: 86/87: 11th..
+eddie lasowsky Look, you scouse rat. The game is from the 80s and the OP's post refers to that time, but you're waffling on about bollox from the Bay City Rollers era. Are you a bit thick?
Big Ron was unlucky to have a team like Liverpool in the same league at the same time. If I could pick an ex Man U manager for Liverpool it would be him for the way he got wba and utd buzzing, how he publicly backed his teams, also not forgetting his amusing quotes...Ronacdotes. The 70s, 80s even 90s were the golden years imo before it got sanitised with progressive keep the ball and try walk it in the net shite we see today. Anyway that's the mini rant over, I'm off to give my rose tinted spectacles a wipe.
No one could expect that the end of that golden era of liverpool would be on the hand of this staduim players that will be known later as the dreams theatre !
United had the moral high ground until 1981, then they lost it, and neither club has been able to claim moral superiority since. It would be nice if the songs on both sides could stop (and to be fair they're less common than they used to be).
Frank Stapleton has scored some of the clubs most iconic winning goals, A Utd Legend. Old Trafford looked Majestic in them days ATT 56,121.....
i loved this utd team
This was the first season I started getting interested in football. I chose Manchester United mainly because I already had a replica kit from 1979 when I was very young. But yeah, Ron Atkinson's team played some of the best stuff ever. Shame he made all those blunders though. He let Peter Beardsley go, without even playing him. He also had the chance to sign Gary Lineker, but chose Terry Gibson & Peter Davenport instead and let Arnold Muhren go before he was past his best, he later won a European Championship medal 3 seasons after he was sold on. Then Alex Ferguson came in and had basically rebuild the entire team around Bryan Robson, who was the only player he kept. It was a long road to that night in Barcelona, but worth it.
Let David Platt get away too...
I remember watching this game, haven't seen it since that day... 37 years ago(!). United were on fire, Liverpool just weren't in it. Should have been four or five.
What is it about that United kit... so simple but absolutely beautiful.
the atmostphere at this would have been electric , great days
Shame Arnold muhren didn't play for us longer. Such a clever player a midfield of him, robbo and Remi Moses would have been brilliant.
The noise at Old Trafford when we scored was described by a scouser I know as being "like a bomb had gone off." Just listen to that noise when we score, come close and the final whistle blows. Mint. Despite being the best team in Europe for much of the 80s, Liverpool's arses fell out when they played United at OT and even Anfield.
Being Consistent was the key to liverpool winning the league in them days,we'd beat all the leading teams then go to God awful sides the next game and lose/draw....Notts county/Stoke/Manchester city spring to mind
Yep, three points is three points, and you can win the league without beating many of the other top teams, as United did a few times under Ferguson. But you can't win it without beating the other 15 regularly.
UNITED FIRST ENGLISH TEAM TO EVER WIN AN EUROPEAN CUP, AND THE FIRST TO EVER WIN A TRUE TREBLE.
streford paddock, utd rd, scoreboard end, £1.80
Very attractive football by United .
One of the only things Arthur Graham ever did for us setting up that goal for Stapleton
Looks like the kind of player who has one sprint per game in him (if that). Not exactly built like a whippet!
The only other standout game that I can remember Arthur Graham having as a United player was in December 1983 at home to Spurs when he scored twice in a 4-2 win
@@jeremyslaney5644 I remember that, the first live game on a Friday night.
It's was on 24/9/83 during 1983/84 season.
During that season, Man.Utd. did very well against the big teams, such as Liverpool, Arsenal, Spurs and Barcelona in the CWC.
The problem with United was, was that they came horribly unstuck against lesser ranked teams such as Ipswich Town and Notts.County
Not sure Ipswich were that bad then.
@ Back in those days, Manchester United lacked a genuine predatory striker in the calibre of say Ian Rush who could guarantee your side 25-30 goals a season
@@jeremyslaney5644 yep, I remember that for sure. I never understood why. Apart from McClair's first season, we didn't have that until Cole.
Yeh forget how good Stapleton was for United.
"..suggests the balance of power may be shifting"
Liverpool went on to win the League, League cup and European cup that season
glapots That’s right. But I think Man United beat Liverpool in the charity shield, and both league games that season, so that’s why they were hopeful. But like you say, the cream always rises to the top lol....
@@Mozartboy55 during that particular season, Manchester United beat Liverpool 2-0 in the Charity Shield, 1-0 at Old Trafford, and the game at Anfield finished 1-1.
So Manchester United might have won the battle, but Liverpool definitely won the war
Yes, I'm pretty sure John Motson didn't know that was going to happen in September though.
24 seconds in, Liverpool fans singing "who's that dying on the runway". Might wan't to remember that when they're asking for their dead to be respected
6 years later...
Fair dinkum. As a long time LFC fan, that is disgusting. The mentality of so called humans makes me scratch my head.
A result that saw Man Utd 2nd, and Liverpool 4th, in the 1st Division. West Ham were top!
Utd often had great games against Liverpool in the 80s, but it was Liverpool who always walked away with the trophies, although Utd turned the tables in the 90s and 2000s.
I liked Alan Hansen as a Pundit and a person, likeable guy. But I can't understand how he ever made it to the highest level. He always had sturdy Centre Backs partnering him to tidy up after his mistakes.
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@@stel3209 Try watching a compilation of his howlers you 🔔🔚! Start by searching Russia v Scotland 1982 - perhaps the same match that ENDED his Scotland career. 🤣🤣🤡🤡💩💩
That comment demonstrates that you know very little about football players.
@@markreville6917 And you're a font of all knowledge about Footballers? 🤣🤣🤡🤡 Try watching Russia's equaliser against Scotland in World Cup 1982. He was good, but not great.
I was born the day before. UTFR!
Liverpool supporter. I've been re-watching some of the league and FA Cup games between the two teams from the early and mid-1980's. I realise United were applying pressure and that pitches in those days cut up fairly easily (making footing and movement trickier), but Liverpool look weak in defense in these games. There's clumsiness in clearances, loose passing, poor positioning, etc. It's not just United being up for the games. Too many errors in Liverpool's play.
classic lfc kit love it
Unfortunately Mike Duxbury's great build up play for the goal has been cut out.
Before those glazers
5:32 ...and the balance of power maybe shifting :). Manchester United could beat anyone back then, 3:0 against Barcelona comes to my mind for ex., but could not win the league. I waited for another ten years for it to happen. And I am prepared to do it all over again.
+eddie lasowsky Complete nonsense. United were in a supposed 2 horse race with Liverpool most seasons (where we eventually finished 3rd or 4th). It was only the late 80s when we were truly shit and in the bottom half.
Mi Ke
Once in a 2 horse race out of 7 seasons is hardly 'most seasons', is it?
Season 77/78: Liverpool second United 10th
Season 78/79: Liverpool 1st United 9th
Season 79/80:Liverpool 1st United 2nd
Season 80/81: Liverpool 5th United 9th
Season 81/82: Liverpool 1st United 3rd
Season 82/83: Liverpool 1st United 3rd
Season 83/83: Liverpool 1st United 4th
+eddie lasowsky Why are you including positions from the 70s? The issue is the 80s and you're talking shite again. United: 80/81: 8th. 81/82: 3rd. 82/83: 3rd. 83/84: 4th. 84/85: 4th. 85/86/4th. And then the low positions start from the late 80s: 86/87: 11th..
Mi Ke
There is no issue you clown. Youy said 'most seasons' and specified nothing in terms of decades, Jesus, keep up.
+eddie lasowsky Look, you scouse rat. The game is from the 80s and the OP's post refers to that time, but you're waffling on about bollox from the Bay City Rollers era. Are you a bit thick?
We always had a chance of beating them in a one off game we just didn't have their consistency.
At that time the football was not so hard as in the 2020 years
Big Ron was unlucky to have a team like Liverpool in the same league at the same time. If I could pick an ex Man U manager for Liverpool it would be him for the way he got wba and utd buzzing, how he publicly backed his teams, also not forgetting his amusing quotes...Ronacdotes. The 70s, 80s even 90s were the golden years imo before it got sanitised with progressive keep the ball and try walk it in the net shite we see today. Anyway that's the mini rant over, I'm off to give my rose tinted spectacles a wipe.
No one could expect that the end of that golden era of liverpool would be on the hand of this staduim players that will be known later as the dreams theatre !
Both sets of so called fans have did things wrong, but there is know need for that kind off chanting. R.I.P to the Busby Babes
United had the moral high ground until 1981, then they lost it, and neither club has been able to claim moral superiority since. It would be nice if the songs on both sides could stop (and to be fair they're less common than they used to be).
Man U was all over LFC. Hansen looks pathetic.
Hansen was great player. We played well for periods of the season then but they were best over the yr easy
utd destroyed the scum that day. But they got the last laugh winning the league.