This is the toughest one yet for me. For anyone that was not there, that cold January evening when we welcomed such greats amongst the footballing elite as that Liverpool team in 1979 included, it's really hard to convey the sensations felt being part of a 31,306 crowd packed into a snowy Roots Hall, the majority of whom were all cheering on the Blues. Just look at the line up for the European Champions:
Ray Clemence; Phil Neal; the late great GrEmlyn Hughes; Phil Thompson; Ray Kennedy: Alan Hansen; Kenny Dalgleish; Jimmy Case; David Fairclough; Terry McDermott and Graeme Souness.....with Steve Heighway on bench!
Our starting line up was Mervyn Cawston; Micky Stead; Steve Yates; Mickey Laverick; Tony Hadley; Alan Moody; Colin Morris; Ron Pountney; Derek Parker; Gerry Fell and Phil Dudley. Top official Keith Hackett was the man who seemingly had no hesitation in allowing a match to be played in conditions that today's lightweights would all baulk at!
Yes, Clarke's goal at Chelsea was a very memorable moment, but so was Mildy's worldclass save. I think on balance, the fact that the whole feeling surrounding the Liverpool game was so memorable, so impressionable, I will have to vote accordingly.
This is the toughest one yet for me. For anyone that was not there, that cold January evening when we welcomed such greats amongst the footballing elite as that Liverpool team in 1979 included, it's really hard to convey the sensations felt being part of a 31,306 crowd packed into a snowy Roots Hall, the majority of whom were all cheering on the Blues. Just look at the line up for the European Champions:
Ray Clemence; Phil Neal; the late great GrEmlyn Hughes; Phil Thompson; Ray Kennedy: Alan Hansen; Kenny Dalgleish; Jimmy Case; David Fairclough; Terry McDermott and Graeme Souness.....with Steve Heighway on bench!
Our starting line up was Mervyn Cawston; Micky Stead; Steve Yates; Mickey Laverick; Tony Hadley; Alan Moody; Colin Morris; Ron Pountney; Derek Parker; Gerry Fell and Phil Dudley. Top official Keith Hackett was the man who seemingly had no hesitation in allowing a match to be played in conditions that today's lightweights would all baulk at!
Yes, Clarke's goal at Chelsea was a very memorable moment, but so was Mildy's worldclass save. I think on balance, the fact that the whole feeling surrounding the Liverpool game was so memorable, so impressionable, I will have to vote accordingly.
Shame you can't get clips of it to post, that might have made a difference too.Summed it up beautifully OBL, couldn't have expressed it better myself.
It seems a pity that none of our younger supporters were around to experience that evening otherwise I'm sure it would win, hands down!