Southend v Liverpool 1979

[Tangled up in Blue]

Retro Rewatch: Southend 0-0 Liverpool 1979 FA Cup

Watch over 30-minutes of highlights from our 1979 FA Cup game against Liverpool at Roots Hall.

www.southendunited.co.uk

The highlights of this game are now up on the OS.First time I've seen them (though I had a ticket for the postponed game on the Saturday).

Unfortunately ,I had to catch a MagicBus coach to Barna on the Sunday in order to get back to work on the Monday.No EJ flights in those days!

Any other stories of the game out there?

 

[Pak Power]

Yes, I got in the game for nothing,
At the back of the South Bank, just before kick off they opened the gates (pre Hillsborough obviously)
So I think the official numbers from the attendance would have been wrong.

 

[Bluegoose]

I was in the west.

 

[tottenham541]

I hadn’t even been to a southend game up to this match, my first game was as a ball boy in 1981, didn’t look back after that as couldn’t keep away

 

[Voice of Reason]

I was in the North bank

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

I was in the west.

That's where my ticket was for.I passed it onto a mate (gratis).

 

[ace]

Terrific night. Nearly didn't make it to the ground, as skidded right across the road on the ice, on the way to the ground.

 

[Chrisb]

Brilliant night at Roots Hall, was there with my late Dad - remember on the way there Dad kept saying that he thought it wouldn't go ahead but that snow was a great leveller. Right up there with my favourite ever games.

 

[OldBlueLady]

Stood in the Paddock, where we were all huddled together and didn't feel the cold at all!

 

[Benfleet A1]

In the south lobbing snowballs at Ray Clemence during the warm up ?

 

[Special Blue]

Stood in the Paddock, where we were all huddled together and didn't feel the cold at all!

Me too as a 9 nearly 10 year old totally gobsmacked at the team we were playing,
One of the best days of my life!

 

[stewart]

Love to see highlights but doubt there are any of the year we defeated Liverpool in the FA cup ,im going back now to 1957 i think ,Liverpool were then top of division two as there was no premiership,championship in them days,i remember it mostly as i was a school kid at Porters Grange and our teacher a Mr Higgins walked in and chalked the score on the blackboard and we all cheered .i believe the following year we played them again in the FA and lost in a replay to them .

 

[stewart]

I was in the North bank

Was this the year we lost a replay at Anfield 3-0 , i remember reading in the paper in AUSTRALIA ,how the Kop cheered and applauded the Southend team after the game for coming there and playing an attacking brand of football and not being defensively minded .

 

[onceknownasrab]

Was this the year we lost a replay at Anfield 3-0 , i remember reading in the paper in AUSTRALIA ,how the Kop cheered and applauded the Southend team after the game for coming there and playing an attacking brand of football and not being defensively minded .

Absolutely true. My experience of the city, the match and the Scouse fans that day, made Liverpool the team I follow in the Premiershite.

 

[Fairport]

Was this the year we lost a replay at Anfield 3-0 , i remember reading in the paper in AUSTRALIA ,how the Kop cheered and applauded the Southend team after the game for coming there and playing an attacking brand of football and not being defensively minded .

Yes, remember those scenes after the match, one of my best memories of supporting the Shrimpers.

 

[ozzie]

my memories of the game AT Liverpool,before and after were not that nice!!!!
Only ever been there that game....hope its better now!!

 

[THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK]

my memories of the game AT Liverpool,before and after were not that nice!!!!
Only ever been there that game....hope its better now!!

Was you one of those that got befriended by Liverpool fans, and then turned on in Stanley Park ozzie? Along with Tricky and P.O.

 

[LCBB72]

Was you one of those that got befriended by Liverpool fans, and then turned on in Stanley Park ozzie? Along with Tricky and P.O.

It was only PO and Dick , both had knives pushed in there throats .

 

[Benfleet A1]

It was only PO and Dick , both had knives pushed in there throats .

Couldn't have been Scousers, must have been someone else, Millwall maybe.

Always the victims, never their fault.

 

[Rob1920]

I was at the home game, and many years later have become friends with one of our players who played in both the home game and replay. Thankfully he doesn't mind my constant questioning about it whenever I see him, it was a massive highlight for the players as well as us fans!