BRIGHTON 3 LIVERPOOL 3 - "Liverpool FC - The Retro Series"

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"On a wet and blustery south coast of England and a Goldstone Ground pitch that appears to have a little standing water in places with divots littering a heavy pitch, the hometown royal blues of Brighton and Hove Albion fielded recent signing Jimmy Case, and the first time the Liverpool born legend had faced his old team since his transfer to the South Coast in the summer. With skipper Steve Foster partnering Steve Gatting in defence, Andy Ritchie in midfield and Gordon Smith in attack, a fresh faced Michael Robinson would have quite an impact in this game as you will read, and secure a future transfer to Liverpool where he would become a League Champion, League Cup winner and European Cup winner all in one glorious season. On the substitutes bench for the visiting Liverpool Reds was recent signing from Brighton, Mark Lawrenson, with Alan Kennedy keeping his positional place at left back and with David Johnson missing, recent signing and a young and struggling Ian Rush was given a start in attack.

GOAL! Brighton 0 Liverpool 1 (Dalglish 12mins)

With Brighton unable to significantly leave their own half they fall deeper and deeper under incessant pressure into their own half before giving away a needless and sloppy corner. This would be an early indication of both an overall “comedy of errors” display from their defence as well as seeing the weather effects as a defensive back pass fizzed and skidded over the rain drenched surface and out for a costly corner. Sammy Lee’s corner found an unmarked Kenny Dalglish and his downward header slipped under the grasp of Brighton goalkeeper Perry Digweed and slithered it’s way slowly into the far corner of his goal, giving the Scotsman his first league goal in nearly a year".

The above opening two paragraphs are taken from my original article penned and published to my Medium blog site on 19th 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/brighton-3-liverpool-3-567bd9950803

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