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bocadillo said:
Liverpool fans do quote this 'unbeatability' of Peter Shilton but I think I am correct in saying that we only beat them once up at Anfield when he was in goal - and that was the in the 5th round of the Cup in 1969, not even a league game.

My favourite memory of our goalkeepers and the Liverpool Kop goes back just before then - to the first game of the 1966/67 season and the first game after England had lifted the World Cup when we were the visitors to Anfield. You would have to have been there to believe the welcome that Gordon Banks got; the memory of the applause and the repeated chants of "Banks of England" as he approached them still stands my hair on end.

It was Banks too who was involved in our startling run of three consecutive wins at Anfield - not Shilton. Yes in 62/63, 63/64 and 64/65 we beat them each time we went there - and each time they could not get a single goal past Banks.

Nobody will be surprised to hear that record of three consecutive wins by any team at Anfield went unequalled for years and years - over 30 in fact. Some on here will know the next team to do it - the rest will realise who it was when I tell you that the goalkeepers in the three games were Keller, Keller and Arphexad. Yes, in 97, 98 and 99 we again beat them in three consecutive games at Anfield - and nobody else had turned them over three years running in the 35 years since we had done it.
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I didn't know that! :icon_cool:icon_cool:icon_cool
 
Orifice said:
I remember in the 1970's (ish) that seemingly every football fan was singing...

'We hate Nottingham Forest
We hate Liverpool too
We hate Manchester City
But < insert your team here > we love you'.

The 'And Leicester' bit was added to the end of the second line (if I remember correctly) in the early/mid 1980's. I was always impressed that Leicester City was big enough to be included in a song sung by so many!

Of course, I could be reciting total crap here, but in MY mind I'm right.
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I think you are right, but if Mrs G is to be believed don't rely on my memory :icon_sad:

I recall it from the late sixties onwards at Filbert street, and was pretty sure we started it, as it was the time when the City - Forest rivalry was probably at its most intense. It was some time before I heard it anywhere else.

I remember hearing different groups on the popular side singing "Liverpool" and "Arsenal" in the second line at the same time - for all I know other groups elsewhwere in the ground were singing a different name again. The "and ......." after the second line was the name of the team we happened to be playing at the time, which sounded a bit odd if it was Liverpool (or Arsenal, or ......!).

I think the third line was originally Man United, but was modified after the 69 cup final

I recall an article in one of the Sunday Supplements some years ago discussing why on earth pretty well every crowd sang this particular song and who started it. They came to no conclusion.

It did include as the supposed origin of the "And Leicester" as a busload of Chelsea fans travelling to Leeds, picking it up from the several signs on the M1 saying "To........ and Leicester".
 
bocadillo said:
Liverpool fans do quote this 'unbeatability' of Peter Shilton but I think I am correct in saying that we only beat them once up at Anfield when he was in goal - and that was the in the 5th round of the Cup in 1969, not even a league game.

My favourite memory of our goalkeepers and the Liverpool Kop goes back just before then - to the first game of the 1966/67 season and the first game after England had lifted the World Cup when we were the visitors to Anfield. You would have to have been there to believe the welcome that Gordon Banks got; the memory of the applause and the repeated chants of "Banks of England" as he approached them still stands my hair on end.

It was Banks too who was involved in our startling run of three consecutive wins at Anfield - not Shilton. Yes in 62/63, 63/64 and 64/65 we beat them each time we went there - and each time they could not get a single goal past Banks.

Nobody will be surprised to hear that record of three consecutive wins by any team at Anfield went unequalled for years and years - over 30 in fact. Some on here will know the next team to do it - the rest will realise who it was when I tell you that the goalkeepers in the three games were Keller, Keller and Arphexad. Yes, in 97, 98 and 99 we again beat them in three consecutive games at Anfield - and nobody else had turned them over three years running in the 35 years since we had done it.
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Excellent stuff Bob! I wasn't aware of our record of three consecutive aways from the 60's but I managed to get to at two if not all our 90's victories..can't wait to recount the stats to my Liverpool supporting Swedish mates :icon_bigg

Has anyone done it since?
 
Orifice said:
I remember in the 1970's (ish) that seemingly every football fan was singing...

'We hate Nottingham Forest
We hate Liverpool too
We hate Manchester City
But < insert your team here > we love you'.

The 'And Leicester' bit was added to the end of the second line (if I remember correctly) in the early/mid 1980's. I was always impressed that Leicester City was big enough to be included in a song sung by so many!

Of course, I could be reciting total crap here, but in MY mind I'm right.
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Newcastle include us in that chant, its one of the few I can understand.
 
At Peterborough's recent home game with Ipswich, for some unknown reason, they played part of the Post Horn Gallop as the team's came out onto the pitch. I have to say it was better than the chap who plays the tune at our home games! Why its played at Peterborough's home games, I can't understand.
 
I knew we had been the first team to win three consective years at Anfield for a fair number of years but I didn't realise we were the last team to win three on the trot there either.

Obviously I wasn't born so that's my excuse for not knowing it.

WAs only talking about this run of wins last night with my uncle, talknig about Marshall on satdee and how he scored the winner in the 1-0 game??
Wasn't it about 5 mins to go when he scored? Or am I thinking of when Gilchrist scored(was that game 1-0 or 2-0?) or am I just thinking a load of rubbish?

Couldn't remember which one it was though 98 or 99.
 
bocadillo said:
Liverpool fans do quote this 'unbeatability' of Peter Shilton but I think I am correct in saying that we only beat them once up at Anfield when he was in goal - and that was the in the 5th round of the Cup in 1969, not even a league game.

My favourite memory of our goalkeepers and the Liverpool Kop goes back just before then - to the first game of the 1966/67 season and the first game after England had lifted the World Cup when we were the visitors to Anfield. You would have to have been there to believe the welcome that Gordon Banks got; the memory of the applause and the repeated chants of "Banks of England" as he approached them still stands my hair on end.

It was Banks too who was involved in our startling run of three consecutive wins at Anfield - not Shilton. Yes in 62/63, 63/64 and 64/65 we beat them each time we went there - and each time they could not get a single goal past Banks.

Nobody will be surprised to hear that record of three consecutive wins by any team at Anfield went unequalled for years and years - over 30 in fact. Some on here will know the next team to do it - the rest will realise who it was when I tell you that the goalkeepers in the three games were Keller, Keller and Arphexad. Yes, in 97, 98 and 99 we again beat them in three consecutive games at Anfield - and nobody else had turned them over three years running in the 35 years since we had done it.
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Very interesting, you should have more historical lectures like this.
 
PEN3 said:
At Peterborough's recent home game with Ipswich, for some unknown reason, they played part of the Post Horn Gallop as the team's came out onto the pitch. I have to say it was better than the chap who plays the tune at our home games! Why its played at Peterborough's home games, I can't understand.
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It's been played at Peterborough for a long time. We don't own the tune!
 
stockholm fox said:
Excellent stuff Bob! I wasn't aware of our record of three consecutive aways from the 60's but I managed to get to at two if not all our 90's victories..can't wait to recount the stats to my Liverpool supporting Swedish mates :icon_bigg

Has anyone done it since?
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Not that I am aware of.
 
fitz said:
Newcastle include us in that chant, its one of the few I can understand.
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You what? (I can never understand a word of what that bloody Fitz says)
 
beaumontfox said:
WAs only talking about this run of wins last night with my uncle, talknig about Marshall on satdee and how he scored the winner in the 1-0 game??
Wasn't it about 5 mins to go when he scored? Or am I thinking of when Gilchrist scored(was that game 1-0 or 2-0?) or am I just thinking a load of rubbish?

Couldn't remember which one it was though 98 or 99.
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1997/98 Matt Elliott scored in the first minute, with Fatty Fenton scoring late on just two minutes before Ince got a consolation for Liverpool. That was the game when City fans were banned because they were doing some rebuilding work.

Marshall scored in the last minute in 1998/99.

1999/2000 Cottee scored right at the start of the first half, Gilchrist at the start of the second.
 
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bocadillo said:
1997/98 Matt Elliott scored in the first minute, with Fatty Fenton scoring late on just two minutes before Ince got a consolation for Liverpool. That was the game when City fans were banned because they were doing some rebuilding work.

Marshall scored in the last minute in 1998/99.

1999/2000 Cottee scored right at the start of the first half, Gilchrist at the start of the second.
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Aha! didn't McAteer get sent off in one of those games? Can't remember which...I'm getting a bit old now y'see memory is going.
 
beaumontfox said:
Aha! didn't McAteer get sent off in one of those games? Can't remember which...I'm getting a bit old now y'see memory is going.
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I don't remember McAteer ever getting sent off at Anfield. The event you are trying to recall happened at Filbert Street 98/99.
 
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