Today In History
September 7th
1982 Nottingham Forest (Division One) Anfield 4-3
David Hodgson 11' 20' Graeme Souness 81' Ian Rush 89'
Att 27,145
think Alan pointed out these were Hodgsons first goals, but did he not score at Arsenal the game before? just read up on that from the past few days, obviously cant remember this game, my Mam was actually pregnant with me at the time. What way did the score go? I see Kriss said all of the Forest goals were in the first half.
1985 Watford (Division One) 3-1
Phil Neal 27' (Pen) Craig Johnston 67' Ian Rush 72'
Att 31,395
1991 Notts County (Division One) Meadow Lane 2-1
Ronny Rosenthal 70' Mark Walters 88'(Pen)
Att 16,051
Notts County under Colin Wanker were promoted to the top flight for the season and took the lead when a Tommy Johnson shot from the wing swerved past Bruce Grobellaar. County lead the match for the much of the game, I remember being out in my sisters old house and i legged it over the shop, they had a radio on, knowing it was blatantly obvious i was a Liverpool fan
"what score is it?"
"Notts country a re 4 up"
as i was only 8 they had me hook line and sinker.
As it was County stayed one up until Ronnie Rosenthal volleyed home on the turn superbly for 1-1, Rosenthal then turned provider as he bulldozed his way into the box before he was hacked down just before he could pull the trigger. County were unhappy and I remember one of their players (possibly goalkeeper Steve Cherry) threw the ball at Steve McManaman's head in response but Liverpool didnt mind much when they stayed second in the table just behind leaders Manchester United after Mark Walters scored his first for the club from the spot to seal a 2-1 win, incidentally this was the last time until October 2004 against Fulham that Liverpool would come from behind at half time to win a league match away from home.
Im pretty sure when i got home i was in serious trouble, some kid i hung around with was a bit older than me and had persuaded me a few weeks back to throw stones at someones house, me dad found out that night beats the legs off me. I seem to remember a lot of people in the street rowing that night, it may have stemmed from damage to our porch cos for a few days in a row wed been leaving the house to find the porch covered in eggs and tomatos, the culprit was caught red handed that night and i probably got found out when someone went "well your son did this"
7th September 1996 : Liverpool 2 Southampton 1
Graeme Souness makes a low key return to Anfield with Southampton who he'll just manage for one season, I seem to recall it being pretty low key after Souness tarnished his reputation with a poor spell here as manager and even more so when he stupidly gave an interview to THAT paper on the Hillsborough Anniversary. However he'd been a terrific player for us so was more than entitled to some applause and has since apologised for his mistakes but on this day 16 years ago defeat would be bestowed upon him. Stan Collymore scored in the first half before a former reserve player Jim Magilton levelled for Southampton in the second half.
Magilton wasnt a bad player but didnt make the grade here, and hadnt even a first team appearance to show for it. Late on a horrendous backpass, (I cant remember who by) left Southampton keeper Dave Beasant exposed as Steve McManaman beared down on goal and rounded Beasant to make it 2-1 and give us the 3 points. The Match also saw substitute Patrik Berger (who joined from Borussia Dortmund that summer for 3.5m) make his Liverpool debut.
