First Liverpool game at Anfield...

[Jim D]

Just to kill some time till the Barcelona match thought it would be interesting to see what was your first Liverpool game at Anfield. Use the list below to answer:

 

Date:

Opposition:

Location in ground

Starting Line Up:

Final Score:

Goalscorers:

 

I'll go first...

 

18th December 1995

Manchester United

Kop End

James, McAteer, Wright, Scales, Harkness, Jones, McManaman, Thomas, Barnes, Collymore, Fowler.

2-0

Fowler x2 scored a brilliant curling free kick at the Kop End and then scored in the last minute at the Anny Road end. 

[LFCNeil90]

Date: 25/09/04

 

Opposition: Norwich City

 

Location in ground: Kop

 

Starting Line Up: Dudek, Finnan, Hyypia, Carragher, Riise, Alonso (Diao 65), Hamann, Warnock (Biscan 77), Luis Garcia, Baros, Cisse (Traore 71).

 

Final Score: 3-0

 

Goalscorers: Baros, Garcia, Cisse

[MarkD]

The first game was Keegan's debut in August 1971 v Forest - he scored after about 10 minutes - and we won 3-1.

Went in The Paddock with my dad, who passed me up to some fella in the front row on the Main Stand and I sat next to him in an empty seat.

 

Clemence

Lawler

Smith

Lloyd

Lindsay

Hughes

Keegan

Thompson

Heighway

Toshack

McLaughlin

Edited April 29, 2019 by MarkD

[Benzo-13]

16/03/91

Sunderland

Lower Main beside Kop

Hooper, Hysen ©, Burrows, Nicol, Mølby, Ablett, Beardsley, Houghton, Rush, Barnes, Speedie

 

2-1 (Rush, Owers OG) Kop End first half.

 

Ronnie Moran was in charge.

[muleskinner]

Hibs in the UEFA Cup, 1975

 

https://www.lfchistory.net/SeasonArchive/Game/870

[cymrococh]

16/01/1999

Southampton

Kop

 

James, Babb, Heggem, Bjornybye, Carra, Matteo, Redknapp, Berger, Ince, Fowler, Owen

 

7-1

Fowler (3), Matteo, Carragher, Thompson, Owen... The scousest 7-1 ever?

[Sir Tokyo Sexwale]

First I remember

 

Date: 8 April 1981

 

Opposition: Bayern Munich, European Cup Semi Final 1L

 

Location in ground - Lower Kemlyn - near the Kop

 

Starting Line Up: Clemence, Neal, Thommo, Hansen, Alan Kennedy, Ray kennedy, Sammy Lee, Terry Mac, Jimmy Case, The King, Rushie

 

Final Score: Nils

 

Goalscorers: none

16/01/1999
Southampton
Kop

James, Babb, Heggem, Bjornybye, Carra, Matteo, Redknapp, Berger, Ince, Fowler, Owen

7-1
Fowler (3), Matteo, Carragher, Thompson, Owen... The scousest 7-1 ever?

 

remember listening to that on the radio as I was decorating the first house I bought - in South Woodford....9 months later I moved to NY 

The first game was Keegan's debut in August 1971 v Forest - he scored after about 10 minutes - and we won 3-1.

Went in The Paddock with my dad, who passed me up to some fella in the front row on the Main Stand and I sat next to him in an empty seat.

 

Clemence

Lawler

Smith

Lloyd

Lindsay

Hughes

Keegan

Thompson

Heighway

Toshack

McLaughlin

 

hang on - you must have been no older than about 2 then?

[RBM]

03/01/1987

West Ham

A field Rd

1-0

McMahon

 

Grobbelaar, Gillespie, Beglin, Lawrenson, Whelan, Hansen ©, Walsh, Johnston, Rush, Molby, McMahon

 

Sub Venison

[Jarg Armani]

Date: November 91

Opposition: Arsenal

Location in ground: Main stand

Starting Line Up: It was Ray Parlour's debut as well as mine, he gave away a pen.

Final Score: 2-0

Goalscorers: Molby (pen), Houghton

 

[Nebraska Red]

No recollection of this whatsoever, but it's one of those things that is set in stone.

 

3rd April 1965

Stoke City

Anfield Road

3-2

Milne, St John & Hunt

Lawrence, Lawler, Byrne, Milne, Yeats, Stevenson, Callaghan, Hunt, St John, Smith, Thompson

 

It was an early 6th birthday present

[NeilJ]

18th April 1987

 

Nottingham Forest

 

Kop

 

3-0

 

Dalglish, Whelan, Ablett

 

Grobelaar, Ablett, Hansen, Gillespie, Venison, McMahon, Whelan, Johnston, Dalglish, Rush (sub. Aldridge), Walsh

 

Ablett's debut, on which he scored his only LFC goal.

RIP

[Begbie]

4th May 1987

 

Watford

 

Main Stand

 

Hooper, Gillespie, Venision, Spackman, Whelan, Hansen, Dalglish, Johnston, Rush, Molby, McMahon

 

1-0 Rush

 

I told John Barnes to join us afterwards. He did....I'm taking the credit for that

[pipnasty]

4th May 1987

 

Watford

 

Main Stand

 

Hooper, Gillespie, Venision, Spackman, Whelan, Hansen, Dalglish, Johnston, Rush, Molby, McMahon

 

1-0 Rush

 

I told John Barnes to join us afterwards. He did....I'm taking the credit for that

 

Probably mentioned this before but my day was blue all of his life but surprised by saying that he wanted to see this match with me. So, we stood on the Kop and watched it together. Afterwards, I asked him why he had wanted to go and he said 'to make sure that he (Rush) had finally gone.'

[Cam]

Date:  06 October 1987

Opposition:  Blackburn Rovers, League Cup

Location in ground:  Anfield Road End, possibly with the away fans but not sure.  Loads of Rovers fans to the left of us in the opposite corner to where away fans are situated now (iirc).

Starting Line Up:  Grobbelaar, Venison Lawrenson Hansen Nicol, Johnston Wark Whelan Barnes, Beardsley Aldridge.

Final Score: 1-0.

Goalscorers: Aldridge, last minute (though I didn't think it was that late) from a controversial corner that was allegedly kicked just as Beardsley dropped it.

 

Went with my dad, brother and his mate.  Recall parking up by some new houses near Goodison (which I'm yet to refind) and walking for ages in the cold.  DJ George played Sam Fox at halftime (possibly "I Surrennder").  My memory is everything was very dark - especially the Kop; I just have it in my mind are being very black rather than the usual red-dominated colour-fest it is now.

Edited April 29, 2019 by Cam

[MarkD]

 

 

hang on - you must have been no older than about 2 then?

 

I wish!!

[pipnasty]

I like the idea that Macca thinks that everybody was born the same year that he was

[Hassony]

Liverpool 2 Auxerre 0, 20th Feb 2003 , Owen and Murphy

 

Cisse was playing for them

[pipnasty]

Liverpool 3 Derby 0 1980

 

Was told that we had got tickets from David Johnson's gardener! No idea if it was true or not - but Johnson scored, so I was made up

[Stanley Leisure]

Date: 21st September 1994

 

Opposition: Burnley (Coca Cola Cup Second Round, First Leg)

 

Location in ground: Lower centenary

 

Starting Line Up:

 

David James

Stig Inge Bjornebye

Rob Jones

Neil Ruddock

John Scales

Steve McManaman

Jan Molby

Jamie Redknapp

John Barnes

Robbie Fowler

Ian Rush

 

Final Score: 2 - 0

 

 

Goalscorers: Scales, Fowler.

 

 

 

My brother Tim and his mate Leon took me, the ticket was £8.

Edited April 29, 2019 by Stanley Leisure

[Falconhoof]

31 Mar 1986

Liverpool 2

Manchester City 0

 

Grobbelaar,  Hansen, Nicol, Gillespie, Beglin, McMahon (2), Molby, Whelan, Johnston, Dalglish, Rush

[psl]

4 Nov 1997

 

Liverpool 2 FC Strasbourg 0

 

Fowler and Riedle

 

Didn't quite manage the comeback (for the 2nd season in a row if I recall correctly.)

Edited April 29, 2019 by psl

[Ripley]

Had to look up date and line up but result unforgettable

 

19 December 1959

 

Kemlyn Road

 

Liverpool 0 Cardiff 4

 

Slater Jones Moran Wheeler White Campbell Morris Hunt Blore Melia A'Court

 

I win.

[Nerik]

31st October 1996
CWC 2nd leg vs Sion- Score 6-3. Sat in the main stand. 

We had won 2-1 away in the first leg so I thought I was guaranteed an easy ride for my first game. We immediately went 2-0 down before McManaman scored before half-time. Bjornebye then levelled the score with a free kick only for Sion to score again (and to be in line to qualify due to the away goal rule). Barnes then scored a backheeled goal before Fowler grabbed a brace. Berger wrapped up the game with a late goal.

James, Scales, Babb, McAteer, Matteo, Bjornebye, Barnes, Thomas, McManaman, Fowler, Berger. 
Subs: Warner, Ruddock, Redknapp (replaced Scales after an hour), Kennedy, Collymore (was the beginning of the end for him already. He was left on the bench following some disciplinary issue if I remember well). 

[Tosh]

15 May 2005 v Villa

 

Liverpool 2 Aston Villa 1,

Both goals by Djibril, theirs by GazBaz

Carson, Riise, Pellegrino, Josemi, Carra, Kewell, Xabi, Nunez, Biscan, Warnock, Cisse.

 

Abiding memory was the Villa fans singing "Champion's League, You're having a laugh"

 

Oh, how we laughed

 

First Liverpool game was away at Norwich (grew up in Norfolk). It was the John Fashanu game

Edited April 29, 2019 by Tosh

[Sir Tokyo Sexwale]

I like the idea that Macca thinks that everybody was born the same year that he was

 

I know him outside of the forum...