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"Reds dumped out of the FA Cup at a “bubbling” Stamford Bridge"

The latest in my retrospective series takes us back in a time machine to four decades past and with the Reds of Liverpool on a ridiculous run of wins that would catapult them to both a League Cup Final triumph at Wembley and Shankly’s “Bread and Butter” of the League Division 1 title, their hosts Chelsea were a Division 2 team on the precipice of a promotion back to the country’s premier league. Iconic ITV commentary Brian Moore described the 41,422 crowd at Stamford Bridge for this FA Cup 5th Round cup tie as “bubbling” and further cemented those days of long ago footballing past by describing the hosts Chelsea as having “white stockings” rather than socks, with Liverpool in the “dark strip” rather than the plainly obvious and similarly iconic, all red. White stockings! Football was far sexier back in the 1980's!

Not so Micky Droy, the fearsomely bearded Chelsea central defender but sexy or not, he and his Division 2 team kept a clean sheet against the country’s in form team to cause the shock of the FA Cup 5th round. Droy combined with Colin Pates, Mike Fillery, Clive Walker and Colin Lee to form the spine of the team aided and abetted by the flying wing play of Peter Rhoades-Brown in a team I remember vaguely from my youth but a team that would triumph comprehensively over a full strength visiting Reds of Liverpool, from Bruce Grobbelaar in goal through a defence of Alan Kennedy, Alan Hansen, Mark Lawrenson and Phil Neal, an all star and all time midfield of locally born Terry McDermott and Sammy Lee, fresh faced Ronnie Whelan and the grizzled winner that was Graeme Souness, and topped off by a forward line, THE forward line, of Kenny Dalglish and Ian Rush.

The opening paragraphs above are taken from my original article penned and published to my Medium blog site on 10th September 2022 and can 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/reds-dumped-out-of-the-fa-cup-at-a-bubbling-stamford-bridge-b18a04dfc26d

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