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Anfield 1969

localny

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So I did a little digging.... see this game Dundalk V Liverpool 1969, European Fairs Cup. It's famously the game Houllier attended with Patrice Bergues, as a student in Liverpool, and fell in love with the club. Why did I do the digging, because as it happens, my Father played for Dundalk in this 10-0 drubbing...


It was the end of his career, having played in England before returning to Ireland. The Liverpool line up that day was below. For some reason, I never looked into this deeply before but the Houllier connection made me so surprised. It's a nice read!


Ray Clemence
Ray Clemence
Chris Lawler
Chris Lawler
Geoff Strong
Geoff Strong
Tommy Smith
Tommy Smith
Ron Yeats
Ron Yeats (c)
Emlyn Hughes
Emlyn Hughes
Ian Callaghan
Ian Callaghan
Bobby Graham
]Bobby Graham
Alec Lindsay
Alec Lindsay
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Alun Evans
Alun Evans
Peter Thompson
Peter Thompson

And then there was the second leg 🤣
 
Love it. Great that your da had such a memory to look back on. I also remember the game, and that time in general, as if it were yesterday.

Happy days. 🙂
 
That could be an interesting thread idea, Football Connections. Or something like that.

I brought my daughter to a kid's birthday party a few months ago and the little girl's grandfather told me he'd been in Belfast once, in 1984 watching Panathinaikos playing Linfield in a European cup match. He must have been a hardcore fan to travel to Belfast to watch a football match in those days. Anyway, I texted a Linfield supporting mate about this and he replied with photos of the match programme. His da had also been at the match and had kept the programme.

"Blues were 3-0 at half time. Drew 3-3 so we're knocked out 5-4. Panathinaikos went on until the semi finals."

Another edit. The bloody programme was 50p. A bit steep for 1984 if you ask me.
 
At least the 2nd leg wasn't so bad though; only 4-0. Did he play both legs? 🙂

You could consider writing to the club and see if they have footage of the games.

great idea. I didn't think they'd have video of such games back then, you think they might?

I found a 1966 FA Cup quarter final video of him playing v Chelsea a few years back on youtube (Pathe news).
 
I can't find the link now but the Iceland national film archives recently found what had thought to be lost footage of our very first European match in Reykjavik in 1964. It's actually not bad footage either.

I know it's only loosely related to the topic but thought people might be interested.
 
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