LIVERPOOL 2 ARSENAL 0 "Liverpool FC - The Retro Series"

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With grateful thanks to @DaveWallerLFC for his wealth of historic videos on Liverpool Football Club - Thanks Dave!

"So it was, 41 years ago in September, that a crowd of 35,269 packed into Anfield for the Reds third league fixture of the 1981/1982 Football League Division One season and surprisingly their first league win of the season after an opening day defeat at Wolverhampton Wanderers and a draw at home with Middlesbrough. It would be getting ahead of ourselves at this point to state what a quixotic and strange season this would be come May 1982 and 59 football matches later but first up, Arsenal, and in their traditionally pleasing change colours of yellow shirts and blue shorts. With Northern Ireland legend Pat Jennings in goal, three of an established and all star defensive line in David O’Leary, Willie Young and Kenny Sansom behind Brian Talbot and Graham Rix in the centre of midfield supplying a front attacking twosome of Alan Sunderland and a youthful Brian McDermott, this would be an Arsenal team that would finish the season in 5th place, 16 points behind the eventual League Champions and who would rue a damaging 8 league losses away from their Highbury home.

For the home team Liverpool it was a case of in with the old and in with the new as the established backbone of the team that won the European Cup in Paris just four months prior remained in place and were now aided and abetted by record signing Mark Lawrenson (£900,000!), Craig “Skippy” Johnston was substitute and he watched on from the bench as Zimbabwean Bruce Grobbelaar was making his first tentative steps as the Reds goalkeeping custodian having replaced the legendary Ray Clemence. The Reds team continued to be captained by Liverpudlian Phil Thompson alongside Alan Hansen in the centre of defence, a staggering all time midfield comprised of local lads Terry McDermott and Sammy Lee alongside Graeme Souness and ex Arsenal youngster (and genius) Ray Kennedy, and they supplied the attacking front two of Kenny Dalglish and David Johnson".

The above two paragraphs are taken from my original article penned and published to my Medium blog site on 17th June 2022 and which can now be read in full and for free (please also consider subscribing for free too!) via my Substack blog site and the article linked immediately below:

https://ramblingmusings666.substack.com/p/liverpool-2-arsenal-0-eb2b371ff13d

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