IMAGINE THIS GUY TACKLING MODERN PLAYERS - STEVE McMAHON
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Mark Hughes's reaction at the end says it all! There's a difference between being a real hard man and blatantly going out to hurt people.
Imagine Neymar being marked by this guy.
And mark hughes was a hard man to
Benno7844 ard you a male or female ?
@@drtenma3744 I think the first tackle would have Neymar rolling all the way to the airport 😝
He was even eye pocking a dude what a scumbag
The players going in for crunching tackles and they both just get up and play on. It’s amazing to see.
That’s how it was back then,we were taught as kids to never show you’re hurt after a tackle to let the oppo know you’re no pushover…how times have changed.
As good as he was, he was also dirty. Nothing wrong with a hard tackle but some of these are dangerous.
yip. all you would do is locate him in the changing room afterwards and, perhaps using a blunt object, administer a sadistic, horrible beating.
@@jamescarr4662 I like it!
A more accurate description would be filthy.
like alot of these type players, if they played now they'd have to change a bit else they'd not finish many games. Great player mind, moved from Everton to Liverpool, not sure for how much but his contribution was priceless.
He reminds me of how I used to tackle the wife before she got too overweight to go near.
I saw him on the airplane,very humble guy l said WOW great player here ,then he said long long time ago,truly respect this legend.
Very similar I sat next to Steve Coppell at a wedding in Philly, and I was "wow! you are a legend" and he said " yea buts years ago no one knows who I am" he was fine with it, so humble. Plenty knew by the end of the night!.
That Arsenal goal when he stopped it going out and then side stepping Adams (I think). Was one of the best goals purely for the build up.
It was Martin Hayes, Adams is number 6 claiming offside
One of my favourite goals of all time
I still remember that from when I was about 11, and I'm an Evertonian.
Steve Mcmahon was as tough as nails, no messing about with him, mind you those tackles today he would be sent off every week 😂
That's not a good thing
I don't think he would be sent off every week... Mainly because the straight red cards that he'd get in every game he played would result in a three match ban!
But yeah, he'd be sent off every four weeks. 😂
@@michaelmccarthy2369 Every team in the league had players that were as hard & naughty as McMahon. Hardly any injuries too, strange that considering how small the squads were. It was a man’s game back then not fully of diving Fannie’s like today 👍🏻
@@stephenwilliams8128 remember when Southampton had ruddock,adams,benarli and Terry hurrlock and case some proper hard players.men was real men
Lol I always remember everytime he got on the ball the commentators voice would ALWAYS drop a few decibels 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👍🏽
True replacement for Graham Souness as the enforcer at LFC. Love the last clip of ´Sparky´ Hughes calling out the madness of McMahon - takes the biscuit !
Haha! Yeah that said something!
@@davidlogan8905 he tried roughing Chris kamara up when he played for Sheffield utd he fouled kamara and the game carried on the camera panned back and Hughes was flat on his back with kamara walking away with a smile on his face
Hmmmmmm. Mark Hughes was never a dirty player, just always looked after himself.
It’s a shame Souness’ ego prevented him from keeping McMahon in the midfield. Instead replacing him with, ah yes Mike Marsh
Mark Hughes was a very hard tackler but I don't really remember too many two footers over the ball. It wasn't in his nature. Steve McMahon was actually a very good player. Very like Graeme Souness both of them are often overlooked for their quality because of some of the criminal things really that they did on the pitch. I do understand it. If you have someone against you like Gascoigne or Hughes, very gifted players, if you put fear into them, the idea is that they won't play their own game and might not be that involved in the game and can't hurt you but it was a cowardly approach. Players like Souness and McMahon could play in their own right and should have had the belief to play a fair game but nowadays, Souness and McMahon wouldn't last in the modern game. I think that the aftermath of the Marco Van Basten retirement due to some filthy tackles changed the way football is refereed. It's now the case that talented players are protected much more. That's good maybe now it's gone too far the other way.
As a now 42 year old, i was a kid in this mid to late 80s era. I remember it was encouraged to go in 'hard', but, as others have commented on here, its not really tough to go out and intentionally hurt someone.
Though there are issues nowadays with play acting and diving, I'd much rather have the football we have today. Even lower league teams try to pass the ball now.
I don't miss the days of terrible fouls that go unpunished, lumping the ball forward at any opportunity and mudbaths for pitches.
The misty eyed sentimentalists will naysay, but the game we have now (on the pitch) is vastly superior.
The major issues now are foreign investment and sports washing, which needs eradicating, before we completely lose the soul of the game.
You talk like they didn't pass the ball then .. nonsense - they did and brilliantly.. You won't remember, but during the mid 70 to mid 80s, English teams dominated all the euro trophies, and not through having the most money unlike today. They played to the strengths of the country and the players of which half came from the locality.. they had real connection.. when kiss the badge, they are taking the micky out of you! It's laughable and embarrassing..
@@athelstan927 your rebuttal is riddled with inconsistencies, I'm not entirely sure the point you are making.
I'm very well aware that English teams were successful in Europe in the 70s, my point was about football in general. Of course the top teams passed the ball, but if you look at the overall game back then, it was kick and rush on a mudbath.
Not sure about quite what you are getting at regarding kissing the badge, as I never said anything about teams not being made up of local players nowadays.
Please read my original statement properly in future before replying with paragraphs of confusing rhetoric.
Totally agree I'm 43 and hate watching these highlights of disgusting tackles
@jonnym7926 Tragically, you live in a world where you're taught from every medium that life is perfect .. which is clear it is not, and if you've any idea what our world is going to become, you will realise that the perfect no threat football as in life is the perfect way of undo, pacify & destroy! Football in the 80s was a true reflection of life.. not an indulgent art form! It was a man's game..
@al81yoo .. in essence, football today is an unrealistic people pacification indulgence art form.. shaped with a globalist eye for the consumption of the progressive middle class.. which is, at best, suspicious if not downright hatefilled of men.. particularly white men. It is bread & and circuses, but by the demonic globalist for the progressive class intent on demonising the great game by those who created and made it what it was..
Yeah he liked to stick his foot in , but he could play as well. Brilliant player.
England v ROI WC 1990. 🤔
Yeah didn’t have the best game that day
I miss these days. When players could dish it out but also take it, as well as being able to play as well.
Same i think one of the best parts of football died when they stamped out the nasty side of the game. Never want to see an injury but reducing crunching tackles also reduces alot of the entertainment
Cancel culture = nobody can dish it out or take it
On surfaces that you would put cattle out to graze on.
It was said that 'Norman Hunter bites your legs', Steve McMahon would bite 'em off.....
back then, players would be lucky to see their career reach their 30's, and the drop-off thereafter was so steep that most were better off retiring anyways. yea, i don't really miss these days.
Mark Hughes sums him up at the end of the video
And Hughes was hard..
Aye a bully coward
Steve got hit hard but hit back harder, he knew how to get the crowd going....for and against. Fortunately or unfortunately ( your choice) the likes of this player ( midfield enforcer)wouldn't survive in the Premier league now ( suspended too many times)
Just say it straight, he was a dirty player and thankfully that carry on isn't allowed now. Hard tackles are fine but some of these tackles are x-rated. They're dangerous and I don't know about you but I don't want to see the best players kicked out of the game anymore.
I remember a Man U v Liverpool match at OT. He was putting it about as they say. Norman Whiteside was sent on to put a stop to it. He did in 30 seconds flat. Mcmahon disappeared and was substituted shortly after.
@Simon T Simon I was at the Match in Question and it is True , Whiteside did do McMahon for getting Colin Gibson sent off but it wasn't at Old Trafford it was at Anfield in 1988 and it ended 3-3 .
@@carlturner1374 yes. Liverpool were 3 -0 up at one stage. I remember Gordon Strachan scoring in front of the Kop and pretending to smoke a cigar
@@garyowens1517 I know Gary , I was there Mate , McMahon was avoiding Robson all Match then you could see him bricking it when Whiteside came on, everyone knew that Norman was gonna do I'm 🤣 Stay safe Mate 👍 🇾🇪 👹
@@garyowens1517 wrong....man u took the lead through robson then liverpool came back and made it 3-1. before man got it back level...the game is on UA-cam to watch for yourself
@@jonblazeinc I am old! Memory not what it was!
Good thing some of these tackles are not allowed anymore or else some of the greatest players might not get anywhere near their peak because of bad injuries. Still I doubt he tackled like this in every game and you do still see similar tackles at times but they are straight reds especially with var around
Because there was no great players at their peak then. Stupid millennial comment.
Yet players like maradona, platini,baggio,zico survived. Now you get pussys who dive all the time like neymar, Ronaldo or go down if a bit of wind.
@@petesmart1983 That's because these tackles were few and far between really. Anyway maybe that's why some players retired early back then or didn't play as long as they do nowadays. I agree some players do go down too easy. They try and buy free kicks really
When players didn't act
You're joking right?
@@gillie-monger3394 those players are hard ones didn't stay down for nonsense on the field hard I seen payers go back to the field with some bandage
@@adeliojorgedepinamarquesfr1497 Yeah like I say - dinosaurs! Returning to the game wearing a blooded bandage, (I assume you refer to Butcher playing for England), isn't brave it's bloody stupid! Just consider the number of old players now suffering and dying from Altsymers due to head injuries!
I'm old enough to have been a regular watching live games, 1st Division and PL. And I've seen your 'hard men' from the olden days play acting just as much as today's crop. Your comparing cart horses to race horses.
Games in those days were by and large a kicking contest on mud fields. Compared to todays game it was shite tbh.
He was the hard man of Liverpool after souness and is still is a rock in midfield seen him at part hall in Warrington still scary off the field love him 🗿
parr hall even
Until he met Norman Whiteside 😅
When even Mark Hughes taps his head and "he's bonkers", says it all!
Hughes would have ruined him
McMahon was a bully
Mark Hughes would've broke him in half,watched Hughes at Chelsea was as hard as nails&that was at the end of his career
Hughes was the man.
Er, he didn't though@@richardwheelerrw
@@matthewhartley3729 hence the word “Would”
It used to be such a different game. Actually physical. Todays strikers have it easy compared to the strikers back then. Every goal Mark Hughes, Ian Rush and co got is worth 2 of what current crop of protected pre Madonna’s get
What a load of utter bollocks.
There’s a difference between physicality and trying to break someone’s ankles. Definitely more dangerous but duh obviously they’re going to get rid of that.
Yes, the cards were quite unusual at that times, but at the time they look really small compared to actual players.. Curious thing that McMahon look so strong, it's only 1,75 m and not muscled like modern footballers.. I'm 1,81m x 76 kg and for sure I may seem short in a pitch in the current Serie A or Premier League..
@@Pistomark you make a very good point. I watch soccer and the players, like Ronaldo etc are rolling around the ground like they’ve been hit by a sniper when they has been minimal if any contact and then after the final whistle goes and they take off the jersey to exchange etc they are built almost like small body builders 🤣. It’s ridiculous. Back in the day they didn’t have those physics but they got stuck in and didn’t go down like a sack of spuds at the thought of a tackle.
More physical?😂😂😂😂 It was a lot slower, less technical and dirtier......that's all. Ask any professional who's been around the game at highest level for 50 years or more, they all say the same thing
Career ending tackles back then. Imagine never seeing a Messi or DeBruyne because of unsporting goons and thugs like this?
Too true. I'd have loved to have seen one of his victims get up and give the little shit a good hiding.
The wettest comment of the week award goes to.......
That's why maradona is a different level to messi and others... maradona would get kicked to death and handle it like a man... modern football and fans to soft...far to soft
What a lady 😂
He could play, too.
He was a proper hard tackler, i remember Vinnie Jones saying in an interview that he went into a 50/50 with Steve and ended up in a heap on the ground with Steve standing over him saying " now that was a proper tackle"
Hard tackler by going in 2 footed and elbowing people in the face😂😂😂😂
What a 🤡🤡
Didn't Liverpool play Wimbledon in a cup final years ago ?I remember Vinnie Jones going into Steve MacMahon and him flying yards in the air, and landing with a bump !Later in the match after several assaults by Vinnie on MacMahon ,he MacMahon ,appealed to the ref for protection from Vinnie.Watching MacMahon in other matches he appears to be the archetypal bully who would pick on young players to try to put them out of the game ,but withers on the vine when he is assaulted .Horrible man and gutless bully .
@@djangorheinhardt Tried to be a clever bollocks with Noel Blake after a Villa Blues game. Big mistake.
I'm a West Ham supporter but fuck me what an enforcer Steve McMahon was
He would kill lot players that where Roy Keane got his from haha
Billy bonds would have ironed him out
@@GSB.out. who
@@andrewwright4195 Or maybe Tommy Smith
@@madmackets never watched him play mate
When Mark Hughes calls you crazy take that as a compliment😝😝
I liked him (begrudgingly as a utd fan), he was a man of his time. His job was to ruff up the opposition and break up play. Tremendous player, I'd love to see his type around now (my own hero was Bryan Robson - so that's why I liked Steve's type).....
Same like I do. I even meet him while he and Bryan Robson become one of brand ambassador of soda drink product few years ago. I even talk and seat in same table with them on after party that time. Steve is nice person to talk but I guess he know that I'm more comfort and enjoy talk with Robbo rather than him because I'm United fans not Liverpool fans :)
Funny you should say that, Liverpool supporter me but Brian Robson was one of my favourite players.
@@chrispalin6786 I think we all agree that England in mid 80's until eary 90's was a great team but unlucky in World Cup :)
5.3, 5.3,5.3
Even though Iam a Leeds fan I have to say I think Bryan Robson was better he had skill where as Steve mahon was just a destroyer the sort you see on a Sunday league game.
Yes, I remember those days: when games could be physical battles with the ball hoofed all over the place. Sometimes hardly any flowing football at all. 'Fightball' in other words. Maybe we've gone too far the other way - but I'd prefer the way football is played now rather than seeing players being allowed to kick each other to pieces.
The current game is much better. Fightball (nice one) is for the angry failure class.
Totally agree. These tackles are infact cowardly. Done when the opponents can't defend themselves. Why didn't this "hard case" become a boxer if he wanted to hurt people? Cos he'd be absolutely smashed to bits by real hard men
Yeah because that Liverpool team with Barnes, Beardsley et al didn't play any decent football.... McMahon the guy in the video could also play, as well as tackle. Not as good but a decent replacement for Graeme Souness, who was hard as nails but could really play.
And Maradona played at a mesi level within those conditions whilst bosi g the midfield how anyone DARE STATE HE ISNT THE GREATEST IS IGNORENCE
@@audie-cashstack-uk4881 And Pele, as well. They used to hunt him like prey.
0:53 Brilliant. Early 1991 and he goes in to 'do' the Everton lad and ends up putting himself out for the rest of the season. By the time he's playing again, Souness has taken over at Liverpool, the two don't really get on and McMahon is soon on his way. You could even say this tackle cost him his Liverpool career.
Karma
Stop making up stories, Souness played before McMahon and McMahon was literally Souness's replacement, lol
😂serves the twat right
@@matt7matt722 as coach...
@@datchnac4577 McMahon replaced Souness as a player. Is that difficult to understand? It's very simple !
The best one was when he tried to get john ebbrell and broke his own leg, it was great watching him.leaving the pitch in tears
A time when players got tackled, pick themselves up and continued with the game. Neymar, Mbape and co would never survive in this Era.
Hahaha check out foul on Neymar videos before Russia 2018, the man is not stupid, being tackled like that would finish his career really fast
they wouldn't be able to catch mbappe
But this isnt tackle
Trash talking, sliding, dodging, kicking, tripping, kneeing, headbutting, poking, pushing, hugging, charging, swiping, grabbing, pulling, elbowing, forearming
In a lot of these examples he can't tackle and his poor control leads him to make dangerous challenges
Talking b*llocks
This football is so much more exciting to watch.
Hard my arse, anonymous in the Cup Final after that Vinny ‘challenge’.
He did but I recall stevey getting Jones back following season.
Yes, he’ll probably be remembered for that tackle.
I loved watching the Easter Monday game against United at Anfield in 88-89 when he spent 60 minutes shithousing Colin Gibson and then the self proclaimed 'Halewood Hardman' got put right on his arse when Norman Whiteside came off the bench and we pulled a two goal deficit back. He soiled himself that day and had nothing to take to Big Norm.
I was there M8, Norman done im within 40 seconds of coming on as a substitute and McMahon was never seen again .
I remember Vinnie Jones cutting him in half in the first minute of the 88 Cup final, didn't want to know after that. Hard man? My arse
Yeah but Vinnie Jones was a dirty bastard. The kind of man who went out to injure instead of to play football.
To be fair there's also a clip of Mcmahon doing Jones in this- left Vinnie with stitches in his leg, from the Soccer's Hard men video.
Suuure, he wasn't his usual combative self (after that challenge in the 9th minute, not the 1st), as you can see by going back and watching the full footage from the match: e.g. ua-cam.com/video/u7HvbpezC08/v-deo.html. If there's any truth behind the urban myth of the Wimbledon players psyching him out, it's in Ian St. John's suggestion in the commentary that he was getting too hot-headed and losing concentration on aspects of the game outside of his midfield battles.
@@of_doom_and_steel477 I remember seeing the full match on DVD a few years ago and I do recall him still being quite combative the rest of the match so yeah it's a bit of a myth to me as well.
Vinnie wasnt a hard man fash was Wimbledon's hard man who vinnie used to hide behind
About 12 red cards in today's game crammed into a 2 minute clip. Those were the days of real football before something else was invented in 1992.
It's very true that today's "product" aint real football. VAR etc has seen to that. I don't know what it is now, but it aint real football and MacMahon's generation at least played the game hard but true to football's real roots. Since been sold down the river as a video game...
I can’t see what’s good about being late( because you are slow) and high most times.. I for one am very happy it’s not like that anymore !!
I'm a Liverpool fan but I totally agree with you. I hate seeing people being reckless these days. Could of destroyed some people's carears plus it incurrages idiots to do the same
I love how the ref waves play on and get up, after his first crunching tackle.
This guy was a top player. He played in a team full of tough lads who could all put the foot in and also play.
And the elbow from the look of it.
@@jinkertsun after elbowing Gazza, McMahon winked at the tv camera. It's not shown here.
Foot, elbow, knee, head dear me, not missed at all. I'm a ref, seen players legs broken with tackles like that.
Tucked his tale and went missing against Wimbledon and Vinnie Jones in the 1988 Cup Final though.
I'll remember meet Steve McMahon when he visit my country with Bryan Robson as one of the soft drink ambassador. Even I 'm a Manchester United fans but I respect him as one of good England football player in 80's :)
Vinnie Jones took him and out 1988 FA Cup - you never saw McMahon after that tackle he got from Jones.
ua-cam.com/video/u7HvbpezC08/v-deo.html
He wouldn’t even get into a modern day team.
Can you imagine him today. He’d be off every match 😂😂
He’s bald, he’s scouse, he’ll rob your f*cking house. Steve McMahon Steve McMahon 🎶
By early November 1986 he already had 11 goals that season. And still could not force his way into England. He should have been an England regular since 1983.
Whiteside had his number tough lad though
Whiteside sneakily elbowed him on his blindside. What a conquering hero.
@@of_doom_and_steel477I was at Anfield when Whiteside came on as a Substitute and did McMahon within 40 seconds stamping on McMahon and you never saw him again .
What a game it was! 👏.... the good old bad days👹💥
Norman Whiteside at 17 showed him what a hard man was.he was shot scared of Whiteside
Dont be silly...
Bang on, whiteside always had him on toast
@shaka7594 like pretty all manu lads, you imagine these things.. like you think you are the best club in the country..
I love it.. it's intimidation football and you have to be always on your toes with eyes in the back of your head... but we still had great players during that time...the perfect balance
Today's so called tough guys wouldn't last 5 seconds with Mc Mahon.
It's easier to destroy, than to create... You can take a guy from the streets but you cannot take the streets out of the guy...Bad for business, bad for the game, bad as an example... Not allowing those kind of animals into the pitch is called " evolution ". Thanks God that for the sake of the game they are not around anymore, in those quantities.
Something funny. Nowadays he would be sent off after five minutes. But the other side is nowadays players wouldn't last five minutes. So maybe life as a football player was more difficult back then?
Where did he disappear in the FA cup against Wimbledon Vinnie Jones had him in his pocket
lazy armchair myth
Maybe he did but Vinny Jones wouldn't have lasted 20 seconds with Nobby Styles, or any of the real hardmen of the 50s 60s as for the so called hardmen of today they go off with a broken finger nail. Byrne playing with a dislocated shoulder against a Leeds side with Billy Brenner and the Man City keeper playing with a broken neck now that's hard.
Didn’t show how Norman Whiteside sorted him out at Anfield as United came back from 3-1 down to level the game after Sir Alex sent Norman on to sort him. McMahon later said Norman was the only player that frightened him, rightly so old love. There is always somebody dirtier.
Well said M8 so true I was there that day, McMahons arse fell out after STORMIN NORMAN done im even Souness wanted no part of Whiteside .
As a pundit, loved him even more. No obvious bias. Always called a spade a spade.
My favourite moment was when he predicted pitchside that Milan would beat Liverpool in the Athens final. His colleagues looked shell-shocked 😅😅.
Look what happened there
@@Daniel_Addy yeah Milan won.
Vinnie Jones not seeming to even register he’s been tackled there though 😂
He went back down 5 seconds later, was stretchered off and had a tonne of stitches.... that was a really serious tackle that.
He was man’s man McMahon.
If soccer was always like this I'd watch it
He shit it in the tunnel in 88 , Jones told him I’m gonna do you, boss when he gave the ball away in 89 at anfield too, Kopites are gobsites.
Jones done him in 1st few minutes of the cup final & that was the end of him,Wimbledon went into win
Absolute fact mate.!!
@@mickhavermans7319 Liverpool were done in the tunnel b4 the game,the dons had loud music blaring out, whilst head butting the walls.Absolute shat there knickers, especially McMahon.FACT.!!
🤣🤣 bang on the nail
You need to read Vinnie Jones's autobiography. Steve McMahon gets a punch in during that FA Cup Final encounter. Jones was bleeding from the head by the end. And says he still bears the scar to this day.
Modern players are way too weak..they are rolling on the ground like hell by a simple tap on the shoulder..look at all these classic players..straight up standing right after those brutal tackles
Played for his country, Went to the WC in 1990, A great player.
gave the ball away on the edge of his box against Ireland ☘️ Kevin Sheedy equalised
Damn, I understand why England is not winning nothing. Not gonna happen with this type of player.
@@patricksmith1628 That was euro 88.
@@thewomble1509 No it wasn't. We lost 1-0 to a Ray Houghton goal in 88. In 90 McMahon came on to 'tighten up the midfield' and promptly gave the ball away and cost us a win. Not a good player.
@@headteacher7196 Yes, I stand corrected.
Mark Hughes was like, ‘is that all you got’ 😂
I knew him back in his school days in Halewood Liverpool. What a great player he was
thought he was from Kirkby ? maybe thats my imagination from going to sea school with his cousin from Kirkby
Players don't tackle like that today cos they're not allowed to. If they were, then you'd see more tackles like this from modern players.
Notice how the other players got right up from those heavy tackles? None of that rolling around the ground for 20 minutes
In fairness to McMahon, he loved to mix it and some of his tackles stepped over the line, but he could play too and was a very good all round midfielder.
I do so miss the time when football was a man's game, muddy pitches dirty shirts no names on the back of them! You had to be tough to step! Each team had a flair player and a hard nut...and they got paid low wages because it was a "WORKING MAN'S" game..🤨
Real hard men were player like Alex Rae, Big Dunc, Joe Jordan etc but this guy had no fear what so ever in a tackle. One of those players you wanted in your mid-field and this video doesn't do him justice from the days when i remember watching him being one of the best if not thee best 50/50 ball winners around. Incredible player and footballer whereas the likes of Vinnie Jones and his boys were just thugs.
A true lion during Italy 90 & a great player all round.
2:01 : "Protect the ball at all costs"😂😂😂😂😂😂
Neymar is rolling around PSG'S locker room just thinking about him.
We need to remember though that there is a difference between hard and violent.
Vinnie Jones is on record as saying his game plan for FA Cup final 1988 was to go in hard on McMahon early doors, and you won't see him again in 90 minutes, not that hard. Imagine Roy Keane, Dave Mackay, Ron Harris, Johnny Giles etc melting after a tackle
Dave Mackay would eat McMahon for breakfast daft lad
McMahon got straight up after the Jones tackle and carried on without blinking
@@josiewallace7968
but didn't do anything for 90 minutes, Job done
That tackle by Vinny Jones was early on in the cup final and ruined McMahon's afternoon. He didn't want to know after that. . . .
Back when a two footed tackle just about scraped a yellow card. Ahh the good old days
Unless you got your leg broken by one.
And this happened at every level of the game not just at the professional level. And often the referee would just gesture to you to get back on your feet and play on. And mostly that's what happened.
Hope those days come back
Being an absolute shithouse was the "good old days" was it?
@Jay Anthony Yes it was not a good thing, but it is what every football player of these past eras had to play against and put up with. Referees were more reluctant to present cards for aggressive tackling in those eras. Football players these days have it significantly easier against aggressive tackling in today's game. Association Football as a sport today is just not as physically combative as it was in past eras. Which saw many top professional players premature end to their football careers.
he was a BAD BAD MAN, perfect followup to the ultimate lunatic
Is this is a joke post?
McMahon wasn't hard, he was just dirty. Went in to a lot of challenges with the sole intention to hurt the opponent. Studs up, elbows up and always leaving a bit in but as soon as he got the same back he went crying to the ref like a little girl.
Please show me the clip where he smashes Vinnie Jones.
He was very very very hard. Hurlock. Robson. Reid. Vinny (8 stitches) Pearce, Ruddock, fashanu, wise.. he smashed everyone of them... ask Razor Ruddock ( See interview)
@@jonnyhyperhigg5764 😂😂😂
@@jonnyhyperhigg5764 Tell that to Birmingham City's Noel Blake. He knocked McMahon clean out after McMahon broke Kevin Broadhurst's leg ending his career. Saw it live at Villa Park.
@@chesterwunpen2196 loads of absolute psychos in that mid-eighties Birmingham City team....
@@itsinthetreesitscoming7431 Mark Dennis, Robert Hopkins, Kevin Dillon..........
I met Steve McMahon
He is quite shy. A very sincere person. A lovely human being
Excellent player. Tough tackler, excellent striker of the ball and a leader also. Second only to Souness in my opinion, of great Liverpool midfielders.
So you think them two were better than gerrard, ffs 🤦🏼
you nutter.
@@roscoaber Yeah though great players niether is better than Gerrard, though Souness runs him close.
@@fish2036 does he fuck, gerrard is the greatest player in Liverpool history, souness played for great Liverpool teams, gerrard played with some shite, plus he he won cups on his own, the likes of Dalgliesh, rush , souness all played for brilliant league and European winning teams. Either way we won’t be seeing many like them again.
@@roscoaber Gerrard may well be the best of all time- but according to Ian Rush from his autobiogrpahy which I have Souness was the 2nd best player in the Liverpool team after Daglish, he also put Mcmahon in his dream team. Now Alex Ferguson reckons Souness was better than Gerrard, but I think that's coming from a Scottish bias.
0:55, perfect example of the old chestnut "his second touch is a tackle" lol
What a player he was!!! If only lfc had someone like him in the team now
He wouldn’t get in any premier league side
@@oll6531 The sort of player to kick your way out of the Championship but then discard when you got to the Premier League. Too much of a liability. With VAR he would be getting sent off every game he played. He never played for Liverpool in Europe, just as well. He played a game for England in the World Cup but was crap.
Be playing with ten men
They'd be playing with 10 men most of the time.
Even after those tackles pretty much everyone got back up unlike the divers we see today
My greatest and most cherished memory is of him strutting around on the evening of 26/5/89 saying ‘1 minute ‘ to his teammates. Priceless.
But he and LFC won more titles and trophies than you can count to..
@@athelstan927 But but but 😭😭😭😭😭 Still effing hilarious though 😁
@@Mors_Inimicis for a simpleton
@@athelstan927 Aah , little Larry is still niggled . Bless .
There's only one Mickey Thomas, one Mickey Thomas.... Steve never got passed that. That hurt more than any bad tackle.
He was a very good player and uncompromising but most of these challenges weren't him actually going for the ball. Which doesn't make you a hard man. Infact, many of them were cowardly to be honest. It was great seeing Jones give him a shoeing in the cup final.
The weird era between early 70s and mid 80s where hockey and football had interchangeable tactics and goons. McMahon could easily fit in with the Philadelphia Flyers of the period
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Back then tackles like this were a regular thing and if you didn’t have a guy like this in midfield then you were in trouble, every team had one which was why the English teams struggled in Europe throughout the nineties, European refs didn’t allow these kind of tackles and even today you can’t get away with the tackles in the European competitions that you can do in the premiership which is why when the smaller teams like Leicester and Everton struggled when they got into the champions league, they found it harder to adapt to the game than the big English teams did as they were used to it
Leicester went to the semis I seem to remember
Quarter final, they put everything into the champions league that season and didn’t even turn up for the premier league matches, so much so they got there hero Reniari the sack
Average thug of a midfielder who wouldnt last 15 minutes in the modern game regardless how much heavy metal music you put over the top.
He was a better player than given credit for. To get into that Liverpool team meant you could play. However, he was a coward in these tackles. They are not 50 50 balls with players going in together and the best comes out on top. He was flying in, both feet off the ground. Lucky he didn't break some legs and end careers.
Two footed tackles are dangerous in any era and not a little cowardly .
A thug from a family of thugs. Good old days eh! Wouldnt have been like that if Ronnie and Reggie were still around.
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@@Slayer-dh6zl exactly🤔
Ron and reg liked young lads disgusting pair
Ronnie & Reggie 🤔 Which teams did they play for ? 😆
@@johnholmes8178 FC Wandsworth Prison lol
Every time I see compilations of these so called Liverpool legendary hard men, it looks like their greatest fear in life was an honest game based on talent
Vinnie jones let him know who was the hardest
They both gave as good as they got.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t Vinnie take him out in the first minutes of the FA cup final and he then went missing?
@@andrewbanfield706 it shows you how good he was if opponent’s fans and players are bragging about a player fouling him a couple of times. McMahon was 5ft 7 and gave as good as he got. He won 3 league titles and a couple of FA Cups in about 4/5 years. Wimbledon played well that day and deserved it - saying it was because of a tackle and that he went missing is a bit of an exaggeration.
Whiteside ripped him one
@@andrewbanfield706 missing - he could have been shot for deserting his unit. arse went - big time...
A great player but Mark Hughes who was another never say die footballer said it all at the end of the clip.
When tackles were tackles and players got up most of the time,,unlike the pansies of todays footballers,,you only have to blow on them and they go down like they've been shot.
You do understand that this behaviour is a direct result of challenges like these right? If you get your legs broken every time you properly get past a defender you'll just start diving.
More bollocks. These tackles were just aggression by a bunch of wanna be hard men with anger issues. Spare me the real men bs
To ozzyman and others who target men's football and call it sissy:
It's better that the modern day game focuses on skill and speed as well as strength, and not just testosterone
I seem to remember Vinnie Jones bossing him.😏
More than once,wisely used to winde Im up and fash or jonesy used to bash Im right up.lol
It goes to show how good he was if opponent’s fans boast of a player fouling him a couple of times. 3 league titles, a couple of FA Cups and lots of goals from midfield over 4/5 years - it’s pretty clear who did the bossing.
He got jones back and he needed stitches.
Mark Hughes was well able for him. Hughes was a proper tough cookie on the pitch.
Yeah Vinnie sorted him out in cup final 😂
I remembered when Norman Whiteside come on at half time for united. Soon put end to Mcmahon antics, he was destroying united in the first half.
I’m not a United fan but Whiteside was tough but not dirty McMahon was.
5'7" but as tough as a brick shithouse
What a delight!!! Always playing in the limit of the bone resistance..