Liverpool Thread | 2025/26 | Salah fall out (p264)

[Jack74]

Liverpool 0–2 Arsenal (1989) - Wikipedia

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Hillsborough was around mid April, IIRC.

15th April if memory serves me correctly, we got stuffed 4 0 at Blackburn Simon Garner hat trick

 

[foggy1974]

Walk like an Egyptian

 

[jimharri]

What I find hilarious is 'The Egyptian King" accusing the club of throwing him under the bus. What does he think his cryarsing about Slot is, if not throwing Slot under said bus?

 

[Gabriel]

Liverpool 0–2 Arsenal (1989) - Wikipedia

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Hillsborough was around mid April, IIRC.

Given that was before the 'birth of football' and was not a cup final, 'a peak British television audience of over 12 million' really was something else, especially as the population in 1989 was around 47.5 million.

 

[Gabriel]

What I find hilarious is 'The Egyptian King" accusing the club of throwing him under the bus. What does he think his cryarsing about Slot is, if not throwing Slot under said bus?

Given the involvement of buses, one presumes Merseyside police won't investigate either way...

 

[danielwood5]

All you'll care to remember him for, perhaps, but 252 goals and 119 assists for English clubs suggests he's a bit more than that.

How many of those goals were penalties from an obvious dive? The man's a massive cheat who will never be remembered as a truly great player as when he had the opportunity to play football he invariably chose to throw himself.to the floor.
Same with Suarez, Mane, Klinsmann, Van Persie, etc. Could have been remembered as truly great players but mostly remembered outside their fanbases as being massive cheats and a stain on the Premier League.

 

[Xhavenjoe]

Massive cheat of a player, that's all he'll be remembered for. Premier League will be better off when he's fucked off the diving shithouse.

I think he'll be remembered for more than that.
Salah at his peak was great for the PL.
You might not miss him but the PL will.

 

[danielwood5]

I think he'll be remembered for more than that.
Salah at his peak was great for the PL.
You might not miss him but the PL will.

Better cheat than a footballer and he was a great footballer. May affect the viewing figures in the Middle East but the amount of diving in games will go down once he's gone so it's swings and roundabouts.

 

[danielwood5]

Given that was before the 'birth of football' and was not a cup final, 'a peak British television audience of over 12 million' really was something else, especially as the population in 1989 was around 47.5 million.

I think it sounds about right for a final round game between the top two, winner takes all match. It would have been the only match on TV then of course.

 

[waspish]

But surely the PL would block any over inflated deal with what could be deemed an associated party, right? Right?…..

Well they thought 56m for Nunez was fine

 

[KentBlue]

Massive cheat of a player, that's all he'll be remembered for. Premier League will be better off when he's fucked off the diving shithouse.

He was -in his prime- a magnificent goalscorer: the real poacher instinct that a good striker needs. To me it's just a crying shame he went to one of the two worst clubs he could have chosen.
But goalscoring aside, he was a snidey, cheating, diving fucker who should have had many many more cards than he ever did: thus he would have been suspended for most games.

Great goalscorer but a **** of a man.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Well they thought 56m for Nunez was fine

How could they not when he was bought for more?

 

[PistonBlue]

What I find hilarious is 'The Egyptian King" accusing the club of throwing him under the bus. What does he think his cryarsing about Slot is, if not throwing Slot under said bus?

Who gives a toss about the rights and wrongs? Let’s just have a good laugh at the implosion

 

[PistonBlue]

Well they thought 56m for Nunez was fine

And the staggering amount Barca paid for Couthino

 

[WestGorton]

15th April if memory serves me correctly, we got stuffed 4 0 at Blackburn Simon Garner hat trick

I was there. Found out about the disaster on the way out.

 

[Vienna_70]

Well they thought 56m for Nunez was fine

But Nuñez hadn’t thrown his toys out of the pram and burnt his bridges with the coach.

 

[Gabriel]

I think it sounds about right for a final round game between the top two, winner takes all match. It would have been the only match on TV then of course.

It was also on a Friday night, which in itself was a rarity then, and the night when most people were out doing other things.

 

[danielwood5]

It was also on a Friday night, which in itself was a rarity then, and the night when most people were out doing other things.

A week after the FA Cup final too which was also pretty unusual.

 

[mexico1970]

Great goalscorer but a **** of a man.

That should be chiselled as deep as fuck on his gravestone.

 

[Jack74]

I was there. Found out about the disaster on the way out.

So was I , the guy standing in front of me said 6 Forest fans where dead remember it clear as day