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

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"Although the game itself would provide very few sporting highlights of any real quality, the larger story is perhaps the future narrative yet to be written but which when considered today and four decades later, is rather, and very pun intended, striking. The hosts, currently on a run of 7 games without a goal in the league recall a young Ally McCoist to their starting XI as their Liverpudlian visitors, currently 12th in the league table and on the back of a 2–1 home defeat by Manchester United just a week before, retain a young Ian Rush in attack in place of the established “Number 9”, David Johnson. Sunderland also start the game with a future Liverpool defensive right back, Barry Venison, whilst new signing Mark Lawrenson continues his yo-yo battle with established Reds left back, Alan Kennedy. Lawrenson retains his place here before slowly and surely establishing himself as a central defensive partner to Alan Hansen (as well as being a “Mr Dependable” anywhere in the defensive line for many years and a future teammate of Barry Venison). The visitors also start with the eager raw talent of Ronnie Whelan as well as future Everton hero Kevin Sheedy on the substitutes bench.

But we return to the attacking halves of the field and whereas a future Glasgow Rangers Hall of Famer and Scottish living legend Ally McCoist struggles to make any kind of impact today, Ian Rush certainly does. He doesn’t register a goal or add to his future club record tally of 346 goals, but the future club legend (346 goals!) is central to everything that is progressive and attackingly positive for his team. The opening 4 minutes of the game sees Rush denied by a fine near post save from Sunderland goalkeeper Barry Siddall before the Sunderland keeper rushes out to force a tame lob from the Liverpool striker that ultimately drifts wide. But both are early examples of a hesitant Sunderland defence being pulled in every direction by the speed of the youngster Rush and his strike partner Kenny Dalglish should have done better but blazed over the crossbar later in the first half, and a half of football with very little in the way of quality.".

The above opening two paragraphs are taken from my original article penned and published to my Medium blog site on 22nd 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/sunderland-0-liverpool-2-f4e20979eeaa

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