Patrick Barclay

[Sir Tokyo Sexwale]

"Liverpool have continuing problems on the field where Bob Paisley, having built the most successful British club side since the war, is presiding over its sharp decline because he cannot adequately replace ageing components,"

wrote Patrick Barclay in the Guardian.

"Paisley has tried the transfer market, but in recent years the likes of Frank McGarvey, Avi Cohen and Richard Money have been bought then discarded, Steve Ogrizovic and Kevin Sheedy cannot break through, Grobbelaar and Craig Johnson look hopelessly raw, Ian Rush remains merely promising. Only Mark Lawrenson and the talented Ronnie Whelan have been unmitigated successes since the days when Paisley iced the Anfield cake with Kenny Dalglish, Graeme Souness and Alan Hansen."

 

once a c***...

[Epic Swindle]

Ha ha, sussed. James Lawton has penned another comedy masterpiece in the Indy tonight as well.

Edited March 19, 2011 by Epic Swindle

[Cheesecake]

I fully expected the next words in this thread to be 'that he is a complete f***nugget'

[aka Dus]

wrote Patrick Barclay in the Guardian.

 

once a c***...

 

What a great find. Good work Macca. Someone should quote chapter and verse to the c*** on twitter.

[David Hodgson]

wrote Patrick Barclay in the Guardian.

 

once a c***...

 

Lovely stuff.

 

It's a classic case of how you can never write off the greats, but tbf to Barclay we were all worried at the begining of 1982. Seems mad to say it now, but we looked a very poor version of oursleves throughout the 80/81 season. Ok we won the league Cup and European Cup (no biggie ) but were 5th in the league. We were just dreadful domestically that season. Suddenly everyone looked shot. Case was gone, Kennedy, McDermott, Heighway was finished. Johnson was getting worse. To top it all we went and sold Clemence in the summer, and although we signed the highly rated Lawrenson, there didn't look huge room for optimism.

 

Our team was suddenly full of kids - Rush, Whelan, Lee, new signing Craig Johnston, and a new young crap keeper. I think we were something like midtable coming into the start of 1982, and it did feel like we might be in real decline. The turnaround was mega though. Made it just about my favourite season, in a way. It was like Istanbul, spread over a whole year.

[Behind Enemy Lines]

11th on boxing day - looking at home 1-3 to city. Went on a 16 match unbeaten run and won the league last day of the season at home v spurs 3-1 - great goal by hoddle then we took control, Rush, Dalglish & Whelan.

[Cobs]

11th on boxing day - looking at home 1-3 to city. Went on a 16 match unbeaten run and won the league last day of the season at home v spurs 3-1 - great goal by hoddle then we took control, Rush, Dalglish & Whelan.

Lawro with a header was the equaliser

[David Hodgson]

Lawro with a header was the equaliser

 

Yeah it was a great f***ing header that. Hoddles goal was virtually goal of the season.

[meredithmathieson]

Lovely stuff.

 

It's a classic case of how you can never write off the greats, but tbf to Barclay we were all worried at the begining of 1982. Seems mad to say it now, but we looked a very poor version of oursleves throughout the 80/81 season. Ok we won the league Cup and European Cup (no biggie ) but were 5th in the league. We were just dreadful domestically that season. Suddenly everyone looked shot. Case was gone, Kennedy, McDermott, Heighway was finished. Johnson was getting worse. To top it all we went and sold Clemence in the summer, and although we signed the highly rated Lawrenson, there didn't look huge room for optimism.

 

Our team was suddenly full of kids - Rush, Whelan, Lee, new signing Craig Johnston, and a new young crap keeper. I think we were something like midtable coming into the start of 1982, and it did feel like we might be in real decline. The turnaround was mega though. Made it just about my favourite season, in a way. It was like Istanbul, spread over a whole year.

 

Didn't that season coincide with the Anfield pitch being the worst in living memory?

 

Square patches of sand all over the shop, for some reason.

[pipnasty]

Went on a 16 match unbeaten run and won the league last day of the season at home v spurs 3-1 - great goal by hoddle then we took control, Rush, Dalglish & Whelan.

 

One of my favourite ever games. I was 10 at the time, middle of the kop, too much to take. I caught the end of the old era but this was the team that defined my youth for me - I'd seen bits of the old team, read about them, listened to stories about them but that season was when I started to go more regulary and they were my first real Liverpool team. And the spurs game was a magnificent way to win the league.

 

And then getting the new shirt during the summer and it felt like a new era had begun - and it had.

 

Didn't that season coincide with the Anfield pitch being the worst in living memory?

 

Square patches of sand all over the shop, for some reason.

 

Jeez, yeah. Terrible pitch for a couple of seasons if I remember rightly. Not sure what happened then to be honest. Anybody?

Edited March 19, 2011 by Pipnasty