Oxford United v Liverpool 14/09/1985
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- Опубліковано 20 жов 2024
- Highlights of the 2-2 draw between Oxford United and Liverpool at the Manor Ground in September 1985.
This game is notable as Steve McMahon's Liverpool debut and the last appearance by Alan Kennedy, who sadly ended his illustrious Liverpool career with a late own goal.
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Probably the best team Oxford have ever had
Dave Waller thanks for this I'm not a Liverpool fan but I love all 70's and 80's football. Brilliant !!
Just love all this it's such a big part of me and who I am thanks for taking me back in time
Great video again Dave Waller.
You do clearly find some good old forgotten games
That was Alan Kennedy final kick for Liverpool,he was sold that week to sunderland
Couldn't believe I came across this. My first ever game watching the reds 😁👌
Mad seeing this. All football broadcasts where banned for the first half of that season so this must have came from the club or Oxford. You can't beat the old first division. And that tackle on Whelan by Trewick was rough as!
I'm really glad I've found this - it's the first time I've seen the highlights and it's a match that has stuck in my mind for several reasons. From my viewpoint in the London Road end the own goal looked a lot more 'on purpose' than it actually was - I can still see a replay of it in my mind - and I was convinced that Grobbelaar had deliberately let it in as part of the match-fixing scandal that he was involved in. Having seen this it is a bit more ambiguous, although he did make an unnecessarily big flap at it. Otherwise, nowadays Gary 'two-footed tackle' Briggs and John Trewick would have been sent off and banned for six matches for their contributions in this match. Gary Briggs would have probably been banned full stop as that was par for the course in his game. Malcolm Shotton was the more graceful player who could bring the ball out of defence and Briggs was the violent thug if that failed. It was a great Oxford team - David Langan, Aldridge, Houghton (I think this was his debut, and it was Steve McMahon's debut as well), Hebberd, and the rest. No squad rotation in those days - basically the same team played week in, week out.
I was in the Osler Road watching this - yeah Ray Houghton was the man for us that day - he must have run 20 miles - all over the pitch
great memories......torn memories in the London Road watching my two teams
Never went to the Manor Ground - Many opportunities but always something else going on.
Done about 84 of the current 92, some loads of times but these are the ones I could kick myself for not going to (Stokes old ground, Readings old ground, The Goldstone, Saltergate.)
My first ever game of football. The care bear that did the rounds before the game was terrifying!
Weird seeing Aldridge and Houghton playing against us.
Ouch. Got to say, even by the 'stridently muscular' {euphemism!} standards of the 1980s, some of these tackles by the Oxford United players are nothing short of barbaric! I reckon I've seen three at least that would be automatic early baths today. I agree when people complain that the modern game is too soft, but I think we have to recognise that there's a point of balance, and this was clearly leaning too far the other way.
Oxford were disgusting. I, for one, am please with the way the game has gone today.
Wow Dave where did you get the highlights of this game as obviously wasn't on MOTD due 2 no commentary?
Great goal from the so underrated skippy Johnston just a shame we never killed the bloody game off grrrr
Still won the league tho 😀
I think it's from a club video.
Shocking quality of football. Players can't pass, control the ball, or put a few passes together. A Championship team these days would have challenged for the title in '85.
Then again back in 85 they were not playing on billiard tables .
Does your father wear y fronts or boxers dude? 6>1 dude. Amen
imagine that game played today? theyd be no Oxford players left on the pitch lol
I used to hate the old away end at the manor ground too small and packed in far too tight. Horrible I miss the Terraces but not this one.
Fabulous cross from Langan for Aldo's goal
The London Road end wasn't luxury either - there was a great atmosphere in there, but you had to stand behind the fat bloke unless you wanted to be severely injured by the barriers when Oxford scored a goal. I don't miss these terraces either.
@@AndyHowland he made crosses like that week in, week out.
@@AndyHowland saw an interview with Langan. After his retirement he was living in a bed sit and was helping druggies and homeless people get back on their feet. He is a legend amongst Irish people. I saw him at Anfield once for Derby i think (I was in the Kemmy front row) and the language coming out of his mouth on the pitch even made me blush.
Alan Kennedy's last game for Liverpool
That own goal by him was practically his last kick in a Liverpool shirt.
@@davidnesbit45 It was not a very nice end to his Liverpool career but he will always have the not inconsiderable consolation of scoring the winning goals in two European Cup Finals.
@@wolves7655 Yep. It shouldn't have ended for him like that. He also scored in two League Cup Finals, as I recall.
Mad that one of the first things Kenny did was to bin off Neal and Kennedy.
Why was it mad? Both were in their mid-30s, Neal had undermined Kenny's authority by refusing to call him boss, and there were ready replacements in Nicol and Beglin. Seemed fairly sensible to me.
I was 16 went with 2 mates on the LFC supporters coach from Bristol and still to this day they never payed for there tickets which I bought 😂
we were really good eh?