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Bob Paisley's Swansong - the 1982-83 season
« on: January 28, 2005, 01:33:45 pm »
Bob Paisley was my childhood hero. Due to my parents not meeting each other in time, I was born too late to fully appreciate the charismatic reign of Shankly. For me, Uncle Bob was an almost permanent fixture whilst I was growing up; the quiet genius embarked on the most successful managerial career of all time just as I first started to take an interest in football in the mid-1970’s. I only ever saw him once close to - at a testimonial match for Phil Thompson, when the crowds milling around suddenly spotted him looking down from an office window, his grizzled face and hooded eyes scanning the throng below. A ragged cheer went up, he grinned, then turned away, cup of tea in hand, and moved out of sight. For me, that summed up the character of the man - self-effacing, shy and totally reticent about appearing in the limelight. A limelight that over a career spanning more than 40 years at Anfield he’d helped to create so brilliantly.

Paisley was born in County Durham in 1919. The war years, in which he served in North Africa, delayed his Liverpool debut until the 1946-47 season. Not a bad year to start. That team, including Jackie Balmer, Albert Stubbins and Billy Liddell had been  sent to the USA pre-season to build up their strength (Britain was still under post-war rationing at the time), thanks to an inspired idea from the then chairman, William McConnell, who had run a catering company during the war. Many steaks and a roller coaster of a season later saw Liverpool end up as Champions following a final day win at Wolves thanks to goals from Balmer and Stubbins, and a loss for Stoke away to Sheffield Utd.

Paisley’s first Championship medal was his only one as a player, but he was to be involved in winning another nine over the course of his career. However, this nearly never happened, thanks to the biggest disappointment of his playing career. After scoring in the FA Cup semi-final in 1950, he was left out of the final thanks to a vote from the then board, who were still involved in team selection. Although he received a specially minted loser’s medal following Liverpool’s 2-0 defeat to Arsenal, Paisley later admitted he came close to walking out on Liverpool. Fortunately for all concerned he didn’t, and he went on to subsequently captain the side. He retired from playing after relegation in 1954 and became the reserve team coach.

A half-decade of disappointing league results and slowly dwindling crowds was to be brought to a halt in 1959 with the arrival of Bill Shankly. In arguably one of his shrewdest moves ever, Paisley, by then first team trainer, and the rest of the backroom staff were kept on by Shankly and the next 14 years saw Liverpool re-establish themselves as one of the biggest clubs in the country. Paisley was an integral cog in the Liverpool off-field machine, the quiet, though fiercely disciplinarian yin to Shankly’s extrovert yang. His incredible ability to spot injuries was vital to a man who had almost a phobia about injured or unfit players and his tactical nous was unparalleled. Following his shock retirement in 1974, Shankly recommended Paisley as his successor and, after a good deal of arm-twisting, he assumed command for the 1974-75 season, believing himself to be just a stopgap. Some stopgap…

After finishing as runners-up in his first season as manager (‘it wasn’t all glory you know, some years we only finished second…’), the next two years saw successive doubles. In 1975-76, the league and UEFA Cup, following a two-legged victory over Bruges was secured, and the famous 1976-77 season saw the league and, for the first time, the European Cup captured. The aftermath saw Paisley sitting tee-total in the Holiday Inn whilst the riotous celebrations went on around him. He was quoted as saying, ‘the Pope and I are the only two people sober in Rome tonight. I like a drink, but tonight I’m drinking in the celebrations’. Later, he was also to write in his diary, ‘After Saturday’s defeat at Wembley’- to Man Utd- ‘we wondered what effect it would have on the players. We needn’t have worried…we turned in the best performance in the history of the club.’ He was right about that, but even more glory was to follow in the form of two more European Cups and championships in 1978-79, 1979-80 and 1981-82, along with a couple of League Cups just for laughs. Inspired signing after inspired signing was made (surely no-one will ever better the captures of Dalglish, Souness and Hansen, not to mention signing the likes of Lawrenson, Nicol, Johnston, Whelan et al? And the conversion of Ray Kennedy from striker to left midfield was nothing short of brilliant). After a rebuilding process over the 1981 and 1982 seasons, Paisley announced he would be retiring at the end of the 1982-83 season, finally bringing to an end his glorious managerial reign.

Despite fears that Paisley’s impending retirement and the announcement of such would leave him ineffective and a bit of a lame duck, this was not to be and his meticulous approach to management was followed with as much enthusiasm as ever. The previous seasons’ rebuilding process meant little was required to be done to the squad- McDermott’s sale back to Newcastle and the signing of David Hodgson for a fee of £450,000 from Middlesbrough were the only major transfer movements pre-season, although the releases of Phil Thompson and David Johnson were also made.

The season started well with five wins and two draws in the opening seven games, including a splendidly exciting 4-3 win over Forest and a 5-0 thumping of Southampton at Anfield. Hodgson had opened his account with three goals in two games against Arsenal and Forest, but Dalglish and Rush were in such form that he wasn’t to feature too often in the rest of the season. Successive away defeats to Ipswich and West Ham and draws against Utd at home and Stoke away had the usual critics grumbling about a crisis. But a 3-1 home win against Brighton quietened them (at this point ‘Sniffer’ Lawrenson was bizarrely the joint top scorer) and the next match silenced them for good.

On the sixth of November, Liverpool met Everton at Goodison for the first derby match of the season. Everton had had a patchy start to the season, winning five, drawing two and losing five of their opening twelve games, but this was to prove one of their biggest humiliations ever. Dalglish and Rush, who hadn’t scored in the previous six league games, ran riot. A 5-0 win was racked up, with Rush grabbing four and the match entered into folklore, inspiring a new verse for Poor Scouser Tommy. Another Rush hat-trick followed the week after against Coventry at home and Liverpool’s season was on fire. In the meantime, wins against Ipswich, Rotherham and Norwich had seen us advance into the quarter-finals of the league cup and successive 5-1 aggregate defeats of Dundalk and Helsinki in front of some of the smallest crowds at Anfield for years had set us up for a quarter final meeting with Widzew Lodz in the European Cup.

Liverpool now embarked on their trademark gallop towards yet another Championship. Following a 1-0 defeat away to Norwich at the start of December, we were to remain unbeaten for the next 19 matches, only 5 of which were drawn. A spectacular Christmas and New Year period saw seventeen goals in four games, with hat-tricks for Dalglish in a rollicking 5-2 hammering of Man City and for Rush in a 5-1 shoeing of Notts County.

In the Cups, there was to be a premature exit in the FA Cup 5th Round, with Jimmy Case rather spitefully scoring to knock us out and Neal missing a late penalty chance to equalise. Sadly, Paisley’s last chance at winning the only major competition he had missed out on ended there. A Grobbelaar mistake away to Lodz in the European Cup saw the Poles take a 2-0 lead back to Anfield where a break away goal and Souness giving away a penalty allowed them to go through despite being beaten 3-2.

There was to be more joy in the League Cup, with its sponsorship by the Milk Board again proving lucky for us. West Ham and Burnley were swept aside en route to a final meeting with Utd. Despite an early goal from the 17 year old ‘prodigy’ Norman Whiteside, the constant Liverpool pressure eventually told with an equaliser from Alan Kennedy forcing the game into extra-time. A sublime curling winner from Whelan following a ricochet secured a hat-trick of League Cup successes for Paisley and led to one of the most poignant moments of the season. Souness declined to climb the Wembley stairs first and shoved a reluctant Paisley up to collect the trophy. In a glittering career, Paisley was later to remark that this was the proudest moment of his life. A fitting and touching tribute to the man who had molded the Liverpool captain into probably the finest midfielder we’ve ever seen.

The final seven games of the campaign saw Liverpool slacken off, only 2 draws contributed to our eventual 11 point winning margin over second placed Watford. Although I’m sure I went to earlier games that season, the only ones I remember well were the 2-0 home defeat to Norwich, including an own goal from Hansen (anyone who moans about the complaints at Anfield these days should have been in the Main Stand for that one…). And then, all too suddenly it came- Paisley’s last match at Anfield. Having pestered my Dad for weeks beforehand, the blue-nosed bugger took me along to see us against Aston Villa, in the Kop at my insistence. Cue a 15 year old Wool shouting his head off, determined to enjoy every moment of the last home match of his childhood hero. In the event the result was a slightly dull 1-1 draw, and much to my disappointment, Paisley didn’t do a lap of honour. It was only later that I realised how out of character that would have been for this most modest and unassuming of men.

With the obvious benefit of hindsight, something was lost when Paisley retired. Certainly we went on to more glory with Fagan’s Treble, Dalglish’s Double and the amazing 1988 team and Paisley was still on hand in an advisory capacity, especially for Dalglish. Maybe I’m reading too much into it, and clearly the Heysel and Hillsborough disasters ripped the heart and soul out of the club, but we never quite seemed to have the same powerful solidity again, never quite the sense that Uncle Bob’s ultra-reassuring presence would see us through when the chips were down with one of those trademark winning streaks. And I guess if I feel that, even though it may not be true, then that really does show how much of an impact his managerial reign had on me and by extension everyone else connected to the club.

Following his retirement, Paisley was elected to the Board, his nature probably more suitable to such a position than the more assertive Shankly, who was denied this honour. Sadly, he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease later on in his life, and died in February 1996. Amazingly, and criminally, he was never knighted but he was fittingly immortalised by the building of The Paisley Gates in 1999.

Bob Paisley Stats-

Playing Career (1939- 1954): 278 games, 13 goals
Playing Honours: League Championship Medal (1946-47); Special FA Cup Final Runners-Up Medal (1950)

Managerial Career (1974- 1983)
6 League Championships (1975-76, 1976-77, 1978-79, 1979-80, 1981-82, 1982-83)
3 European Cups (1977, 1978, 1981)
1 European Super Cup (1977)
1 UEFA Cup (1976)
5 Charity Shields (1976, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982)
6 times Manager of the Year (1976, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1983)
14 times Manager of the Month

I’d like to dedicate the above to my Granddad, the closest person to Paisley in nature that I could imagine and another I’ll never forget. RIP

© Mudface 2005

If you haven't seen it there's a cracking Paisley website run by Derek Dohren (author of the recent biography of Roy Evans):

http://www.bobpaisley.com

For a superb account of a fan’s reaction (the author Alan Edge) to meeting Paisley’s granddaughter see:

http://www.bobpaisley.com/itsonly.htm
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Re: Bob Paisley's Swansong- the 1982-83 season
« Reply #1 on: January 28, 2005, 02:13:37 pm »
Cracking read cheers mate  :wave

He'll always be Sir Bob to me.

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Re: Bob Paisley's Swansong- the 1982-83 season
« Reply #2 on: January 28, 2005, 04:04:57 pm »
cheers mate- i don't have first hand expierience of shankly and paisley (im only 16), but it's lovely to read about these great men, especially this post- brilliant.

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« Reply #3 on: January 28, 2005, 04:07:32 pm »
Nice one Mudface

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Re: Bob Paisley's Swansong- the 1982-83 season
« Reply #4 on: January 28, 2005, 04:08:51 pm »
Great read that mate.

Sir Bob Paisley was the master.

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Re: Bob Paisley's Swansong- the 1982-83 season
« Reply #5 on: January 28, 2005, 06:14:44 pm »
Fantastic read. I, too, was too young for Shanks, so Uncle Bob plays that role for me. The guy was simply a genius. He epitomised everything good about the game, and his character of being quite, unassuming, but at the same time calculating and ruthless, reflected ideals I respected and wanted to emulate.  Everyone talks about Smokin Joe in the same light. After Joe had won the treble in his first season. But, it was BOB's team. There was also a single decision which showed the gulf in class, between the two. I'm not kncoking Joe Fagin here, as I love the guy and think he was fantastic for our club, but this just shows how much Bob should be valued. After Souness left, it took Joe 10 different players to play in his position to try and replace him. We ended up the next season potless. Along comes Kenny, and his kind advisor Bob, who suggests that Stevie McMahon is bought. Problem solved with one decison, and a double is won. 
*With such simplicity the European cup is won.
**Sour-ness, will he get a shot? Now Dalglish...across the face of the goaaaalllll!
***Alan Kennedy!...He goes on...he scores!
****Liverpool need a Grobbelaar save...or a Conti miss. They've got a Conti miss!
*****And Liverpool have won it! They're back...outsiders all the way...

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Re: Bob Paisley's Swansong- the 1982-83 season
« Reply #6 on: January 28, 2005, 06:43:27 pm »
SSS- you'll enjoy this excellent piece about Fagan from JMarsh-

http://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php/topic,51051.0.html

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Re: Bob Paisley's Swansong - the 1982-83 season
« Reply #7 on: January 28, 2005, 08:14:32 pm »
bloody hell all the memories came flooding back then, you done the great sir bob a fine tribute and it was excellent,
 brilliant read

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« Reply #8 on: January 28, 2005, 11:39:54 pm »
SSS- you'll enjoy this excellent piece about Fagan from JMarsh-

http://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php/topic,51051.0.html

Thanks for that Mudface, again another execellent read. We have to be greatful to Joe for finding players like Molby and the way he managed to continue the ship after Uncle Bob retired. But for me, Uncle Bob will always be the greatest manager I have seen, since following football. 
*With such simplicity the European cup is won.
**Sour-ness, will he get a shot? Now Dalglish...across the face of the goaaaalllll!
***Alan Kennedy!...He goes on...he scores!
****Liverpool need a Grobbelaar save...or a Conti miss. They've got a Conti miss!
*****And Liverpool have won it! They're back...outsiders all the way...

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Re: Bob Paisley's Swansong - the 1982-83 season
« Reply #9 on: January 29, 2005, 12:45:54 am »
nice one mate... enjoyed reading that!!

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Re: Bob Paisley's Swansong - the 1982-83 season
« Reply #10 on: January 29, 2005, 01:50:45 am »
Top read, Mudface.

PS  Have you posted your other long article here?

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Re: Bob Paisley's Swansong - the 1982-83 season
« Reply #11 on: January 29, 2005, 11:48:52 am »
Same as yourself age wise so I only really came in at the end of the Shankly years ....

reading this took me right back to the days when if we won two trophys in a season it was only to be expected  :)   One was a bit of a crisis !

and when you think about the clubs who challenged us in those days for the title... leeds, forest, QPR, Villa ... makes you think
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« Reply #12 on: January 29, 2005, 12:10:13 pm »
Nice read, about one of the most dignified managers the game has ever known. Sir Bob wrapped himself round this club like a pair of comfy slippers...with studs.
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« Reply #13 on: January 29, 2005, 03:18:40 pm »
Nice one  :wave
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« Reply #14 on: January 29, 2005, 03:20:00 pm »
Top read, Mudface.

PS  Have you posted your other long article here?

Thanks, Cyn and everyone else. I didn't put the other one up originally and it'll need rewriting, so maybe next week- you know how lazy I am...  ;)

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« Reply #15 on: January 31, 2005, 09:24:13 am »
I too am too young to remember Shank, and Bob was a true legend.

It always annoys me when the media and Mancs refer to Ferguson as the most successful Brittish manager of all time.

How many European Cups has he won?

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« Reply #16 on: January 31, 2005, 02:01:08 pm »
Good read at lunchtime that. Thanks. :wave

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Re: Bob Paisley's Swansong - the 1982-83 season
« Reply #17 on: January 31, 2005, 10:31:58 pm »
Mudface,   An excellent piece about sir Bob
"Bill Shankly 1913-1981 - He Made The People Happy"   And Bob made us even happier

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Re: Bob Paisley's Swansong - the 1982-83 season
« Reply #18 on: April 9, 2005, 12:48:36 pm »
A friend persuaded me to go and get him some tickets for Ray Clemence's testimonial. I walked the half hour to the ground since I hadn't done it for years, as I had been an ' exiled Red'.
Just after I had bought a couple of tickets, a door opened behind the girl serving me and in walked Bob. I turned a bit slack jaw but managed to blurt some niceties to him, to which he replied warmly in his wonderful soft voiced Geordie accent.
The thing that has amused me for years though, was that he was wearing a pair of carpet slippers. The kind that probably every father or grandfather has or will receive once in their lifetime at Christmas.
Walking home on a cushion of air, I was struck as to how lucky I was to walk rather than drive to the ground and therefore have a bit of a chat with such a truly great man.

After being robbed of some marvelous memories by Althzeimers. I pray that at his passing his life really did pass before his eyes. If he then realised how much joy he helped give to millions, he would truly rest in peace.


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« Reply #19 on: May 20, 2005, 11:20:44 am »
Bob Paisley was my childhood hero. Due to my parents not meeting each other in time, I was born too late to fully appreciate the charismatic reign of Shankly. For me, Uncle Bob was an almost permanent fixture whilst I was growing up; the quiet genius embarked on the most successful managerial career of all time just as I first started to take an interest in football in the mid-1970’s. I only ever saw him once close to - at a testimonial match for Phil Thompson, when the crowds milling around suddenly spotted him looking down from an office window, his grizzled face and hooded eyes scanning the throng below. A ragged cheer went up, he grinned, then turned away, cup of tea in hand, and moved out of sight. For me, that summed up the character of the man - self-effacing, shy and totally reticent about appearing in the limelight. A limelight that over a career spanning more than 40 years at Anfield he’d helped to create so brilliantly.

Paisley was born in County Durham in 1919. The war years, in which he served in North Africa, delayed his Liverpool debut until the 1946-47 season. Not a bad year to start. That team, including Jackie Balmer, Albert Stubbins and Billy Liddell had been  sent to the USA pre-season to build up their strength (Britain was still under post-war rationing at the time), thanks to an inspired idea from the then chairman, William McConnell, who had run a catering company during the war. Many steaks and a roller coaster of a season later saw Liverpool end up as Champions following a final day win at Wolves thanks to goals from Balmer and Stubbins, and a loss for Stoke away to Sheffield Utd.

Paisley’s first Championship medal was his only one as a player, but he was to be involved in winning another nine over the course of his career. However, this nearly never happened, thanks to the biggest disappointment of his playing career. After scoring in the FA Cup semi-final in 1950, he was left out of the final thanks to a vote from the then board, who were still involved in team selection. Although he received a specially minted loser’s medal following Liverpool’s 2-0 defeat to Arsenal, Paisley later admitted he came close to walking out on Liverpool. Fortunately for all concerned he didn’t, and he went on to subsequently captain the side. He retired from playing after relegation in 1954 and became the reserve team coach.

A half-decade of disappointing league results and slowly dwindling crowds was to be brought to a halt in 1959 with the arrival of Bill Shankly. In arguably one of his shrewdest moves ever, Paisley, by then first team trainer, and the rest of the backroom staff were kept on by Shankly and the next 14 years saw Liverpool re-establish themselves as one of the biggest clubs in the country. Paisley was an integral cog in the Liverpool off-field machine, the quiet, though fiercely disciplinarian yin to Shankly’s extrovert yang. His incredible ability to spot injuries was vital to a man who had almost a phobia about injured or unfit players and his tactical nous was unparalleled. Following his shock retirement in 1974, Shankly recommended Paisley as his successor and, after a good deal of arm-twisting, he assumed command for the 1974-75 season, believing himself to be just a stopgap. Some stopgap…

After finishing as runners-up in his first season as manager (‘it wasn’t all glory you know, some years we only finished second…’), the next two years saw successive doubles. In 1975-76, the league and UEFA Cup, following a two-legged victory over Bruges was secured, and the famous 1976-77 season saw the league and, for the first time, the European Cup captured. The aftermath saw Paisley sitting tee-total in the Holiday Inn whilst the riotous celebrations went on around him. He was quoted as saying, ‘the Pope and I are the only two people sober in Rome tonight. I like a drink, but tonight I’m drinking in the celebrations’. Later, he was also to write in his diary, ‘After Saturday’s defeat at Wembley’- to Man Utd- ‘we wondered what effect it would have on the players. We needn’t have worried…we turned in the best performance in the history of the club.’ He was right about that, but even more glory was to follow in the form of two more European Cups and championships in 1978-79, 1979-80 and 1981-82, along with a couple of League Cups just for laughs. Inspired signing after inspired signing was made (surely no-one will ever better the captures of Dalglish, Souness and Hansen, not to mention signing the likes of Lawrenson, Nicol, Johnston, Whelan et al? And the conversion of Ray Kennedy from striker to left midfield was nothing short of brilliant). After a rebuilding process over the 1981 and 1982 seasons, Paisley announced he would be retiring at the end of the 1982-83 season, finally bringing to an end his glorious managerial reign.

Despite fears that Paisley’s impending retirement and the announcement of such would leave him ineffective and a bit of a lame duck, this was not to be and his meticulous approach to management was followed with as much enthusiasm as ever. The previous seasons’ rebuilding process meant little was required to be done to the squad- McDermott’s sale back to Newcastle and the signing of David Hodgson for a fee of £450,000 from Middlesbrough were the only major transfer movements pre-season, although the releases of Phil Thompson and David Johnson were also made.

The season started well with five wins and two draws in the opening seven games, including a splendidly exciting 4-3 win over Forest and a 5-0 thumping of Southampton at Anfield. Hodgson had opened his account with three goals in two games against Arsenal and Forest, but Dalglish and Rush were in such form that he wasn’t to feature too often in the rest of the season. Successive away defeats to Ipswich and West Ham and draws against Utd at home and Stoke away had the usual critics grumbling about a crisis. But a 3-1 home win against Brighton quietened them (at this point ‘Sniffer’ Lawrenson was bizarrely the joint top scorer) and the next match silenced them for good.

On the sixth of November, Liverpool met Everton at Goodison for the first derby match of the season. Everton had had a patchy start to the season, winning five, drawing two and losing five of their opening twelve games, but this was to prove one of their biggest humiliations ever. Dalglish and Rush, who hadn’t scored in the previous six league games, ran riot. A 5-0 win was racked up, with Rush grabbing four and the match entered into folklore, inspiring a new verse for Poor Scouser Tommy. Another Rush hat-trick followed the week after against Coventry at home and Liverpool’s season was on fire. In the meantime, wins against Ipswich, Rotherham and Norwich had seen us advance into the quarter-finals of the league cup and successive 5-1 aggregate defeats of Dundalk and Helsinki in front of some of the smallest crowds at Anfield for years had set us up for a quarter final meeting with Widzew Lodz in the European Cup.

Liverpool now embarked on their trademark gallop towards yet another Championship. Following a 1-0 defeat away to Norwich at the start of December, we were to remain unbeaten for the next 19 matches, only 5 of which were drawn. A spectacular Christmas and New Year period saw seventeen goals in four games, with hat-tricks for Dalglish in a rollicking 5-2 hammering of Man City and for Rush in a 5-1 shoeing of Notts County.

In the Cups, there was to be a premature exit in the FA Cup 5th Round, with Jimmy Case rather spitefully scoring to knock us out and Neal missing a late penalty chance to equalise. Sadly, Paisley’s last chance at winning the only major competition he had missed out on ended there. A Grobbelaar mistake away to Lodz in the European Cup saw the Poles take a 2-0 lead back to Anfield where a break away goal and Souness giving away a penalty allowed them to go through despite being beaten 3-2.

There was to be more joy in the League Cup, with its sponsorship by the Milk Board again proving lucky for us. West Ham and Burnley were swept aside en route to a final meeting with Utd. Despite an early goal from the 17 year old ‘prodigy’ Norman Whiteside, the constant Liverpool pressure eventually told with an equaliser from Alan Kennedy forcing the game into extra-time. A sublime curling winner from Whelan following a ricochet secured a hat-trick of League Cup successes for Paisley and led to one of the most poignant moments of the season. Souness declined to climb the Wembley stairs first and shoved a reluctant Paisley up to collect the trophy. In a glittering career, Paisley was later to remark that this was the proudest moment of his life. A fitting and touching tribute to the man who had molded the Liverpool captain into probably the finest midfielder we’ve ever seen.

The final seven games of the campaign saw Liverpool slacken off, only 2 draws contributed to our eventual 11 point winning margin over second placed Watford. Although I’m sure I went to earlier games that season, the only ones I remember well were the 2-0 home defeat to Norwich, including an own goal from Hansen (anyone who moans about the complaints at Anfield these days should have been in the Main Stand for that one…). And then, all too suddenly it came- Paisley’s last match at Anfield. Having pestered my Dad for weeks beforehand, the blue-nosed bugger took me along to see us against Aston Villa, in the Kop at my insistence. Cue a 15 year old Wool shouting his head off, determined to enjoy every moment of the last home match of his childhood hero. In the event the result was a slightly dull 1-1 draw, and much to my disappointment, Paisley didn’t do a lap of honour. It was only later that I realised how out of character that would have been for this most modest and unassuming of men.

With the obvious benefit of hindsight, something was lost when Paisley retired. Certainly we went on to more glory with Fagan’s Treble, Dalglish’s Double and the amazing 1988 team and Paisley was still on hand in an advisory capacity, especially for Dalglish. Maybe I’m reading too much into it, and clearly the Heysel and Hillsborough disasters ripped the heart and soul out of the club, but we never quite seemed to have the same powerful solidity again, never quite the sense that Uncle Bob’s ultra-reassuring presence would see us through when the chips were down with one of those trademark winning streaks. And I guess if I feel that, even though it may not be true, then that really does show how much of an impact his managerial reign had on me and by extension everyone else connected to the club.

Following his retirement, Paisley was elected to the Board, his nature probably more suitable to such a position than the more assertive Shankly, who was denied this honour. Sadly, he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease later on in his life, and died in February 1996. Amazingly, and criminally, he was never knighted but he was fittingly immortalised by the building of The Paisley Gates in 1999.

Bob Paisley Stats-

Playing Career (1939- 1954): 278 games, 13 goals
Playing Honours: League Championship Medal (1946-47); Special FA Cup Final Runners-Up Medal (1950)

Managerial Career (1974- 1983)
6 League Championships (1975-76, 1976-77, 1978-79, 1979-80, 1981-82, 1982-83)
3 European Cups (1977, 1978, 1981)
1 European Super Cup (1977)
1 UEFA Cup (1976)
5 Charity Shields (1976, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982)
6 times Manager of the Year (1976, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1983)
14 times Manager of the Month

I’d like to dedicate the above to my Granddad, the closest person to Paisley in nature that I could imagine and another I’ll never forget. RIP

© Mudface 2005

If you haven't seen it there's a cracking Paisley website run by Derek Dohren (author of the recent biography of Roy Evans):

http://www.bobpaisley.com

For a superb account of a fan’s reaction (the author Alan Edge) to meeting Paisley’s granddaughter see:

http://www.bobpaisley.com/itsonly.htm

Sorry to be annoying in the Stats you forgot to mention the league/milk cup wins ;)
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Re: Bob Paisley's Swansong - the 1982-83 season
« Reply #20 on: May 21, 2005, 02:06:35 am »
We must be the same age, got into Liverpool in the same way, never to leave -- my god, we must be twins!

Great post thanks.
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Re: Bob Paisley's Swansong - the 1982-83 season
« Reply #21 on: May 21, 2005, 10:15:46 am »
Most people spend their lives wishing they were younger but stuff like that makes me wish I'd been around for more glory...first footy memories were 1984 or so so missed out on Shankly and Paisley  :no

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Re: Bob Paisley's Swansong - the 1982-83 season
« Reply #22 on: May 21, 2005, 10:39:55 am »
Sorry to be annoying in the Stats you forgot to mention the league/milk cup wins ;)

Well spotted WH Paul -- my god Paisley kicked ass. I won a county 1,500 metres title once...

I take it the reds are your second team? Funny, the irons are my second team and it's the same for a lot of my reds mates, and one of my best mates is an iron with the reds second... in Scottish football we support Celtic. Is there something connecting these three teams? Seems more than a coincidence.
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Re: Bob Paisley's Swansong - the 1982-83 season
« Reply #23 on: May 21, 2005, 09:24:14 pm »
Excellent post. 3 euro cups = no knighthood. Sourface wins one and is 'Sir' in double quick time. Go figure.
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Re: Bob Paisley's Swansong - the 1982-83 season
« Reply #24 on: May 22, 2005, 12:22:58 pm »
Excellent post. 3 euro cups = no knighthood. Sourface wins one and is 'Sir' in double quick time. Go figure.

Same with Bobby Moore and Sir Bobby Charlton.

Paisley and Moore should both be knighted postumously(Spelling ?)
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Re: Bob Paisley's Swansong - the 1982-83 season
« Reply #25 on: May 22, 2005, 06:23:30 pm »
Same with Bobby Moore and Sir Bobby Charlton.

Paisley and Moore should both be knighted postumously(Spelling ?)

As good as Charlton was, we all know who deserved it more. Or is that Moore? ;)

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Re: Bob Paisley's Swansong - the 1982-83 season
« Reply #26 on: May 23, 2005, 01:20:59 pm »
Great read, thanks

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Re: Bob Paisley's Swansong - the 1982-83 season
« Reply #27 on: May 23, 2005, 08:53:05 pm »
Brilliant read-my first season watching the Reds.
One small blip in a great piece-Lawrenson scored the oggy against Norwich.

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Re: Bob Paisley's Swansong - the 1982-83 season
« Reply #28 on: April 18, 2013, 03:30:26 pm »
Does anyone know if Bob was around the club at the time of Hillsboro?  I can’t remember seeing anything of him at the time.  I know he officially left the club in 1992 but had his illness started around 88/89?  I seem to remember he got set up by the press for having criticized John Aldridge around that time and some said they only realized later than his illness had set in at that time.  Just curious.

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Re: Bob Paisley's Swansong - the 1982-83 season
« Reply #29 on: April 18, 2013, 07:05:34 pm »
Same with Bobby Moore and Sir Bobby Charlton.

Paisley and Moore should both be knighted postumously(Spelling ?)

Ir is a common misconception that people can be awarded a knighthood posthumously. They can't. Knighthoods only go to the living.

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Re: Bob Paisley's Swansong - the 1982-83 season
« Reply #30 on: April 19, 2013, 01:47:22 pm »
Does anyone know if Bob was around the club at the time of Hillsboro?  I can’t remember seeing anything of him at the time.  I know he officially left the club in 1992 but had his illness started around 88/89?  I seem to remember he got set up by the press for having criticized John Aldridge around that time and some said they only realized later than his illness had set in at that time.  Just curious.

Bob served as a director of the club until 1992 I believe so yes he was around during Hillsborough - think his illness began to kick in around 1991 - alzheimers.

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Re: Bob Paisley's Swansong - the 1982-83 season
« Reply #31 on: May 2, 2013, 01:09:23 am »
A little off topic, does anyone know what number Bob wore when he played for us?  My wife and I named our pet Paisley after the great man and she wants a shirt with Paisley on the back with his number, yes I know they didn't have names on the back back then, but if anyone knows that would be great. 

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Re: Bob Paisley's Swansong - the 1982-83 season
« Reply #32 on: May 7, 2013, 04:11:17 pm »
Bob served as a director of the club until 1992 I believe so yes he was around during Hillsborough - think his illness began to kick in around 1991 - alzheimers.

Thanks appreciate the reply.  I had just wondered because i noticed he wasn't seen (as in any of the photos) from around that time at the services and the ground etc.

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Re: Bob Paisley's Swansong - the 1982-83 season
« Reply #33 on: May 7, 2013, 04:14:14 pm »
I was actually in Woolton over the weekend and went to Bob's graves to pay my respects.  I met a really wonderful old lady who took me to his grave.  She mentioned that both Bob and Jessie use to help out with the tea after Sunday service.  The lady directed me to a lovely cafe in the village as well.  A lovely village Woolton.

Out of interest more than anything did Bob live near the church in Woolton?

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Re: Bob Paisley's Swansong - the 1982-83 season
« Reply #34 on: May 8, 2013, 01:51:08 pm »
A little off topic, does anyone know what number Bob wore when he played for us?  My wife and I named our pet Paisley after the great man and she wants a shirt with Paisley on the back with his number, yes I know they didn't have names on the back back then, but if anyone knows that would be great. 

He nearly always played at left-half and so wore the Number Six shirt.

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Re: Bob Paisley's Swansong - the 1982-83 season
« Reply #35 on: May 9, 2013, 06:03:27 pm »
He nearly always played at left-half and so wore the Number Six shirt.

Thanks for that.  I wasn't sure if it was 6 or 5.

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Re: Bob Paisley's Swansong - the 1982-83 season
« Reply #36 on: July 24, 2022, 11:29:14 pm »
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A few videos and some info for Liverpool's 1982-83 season...






Wikipedia page for the 1982/83 season: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982%E2%80%9383_Liverpool_F.C._season

LFCHistory.net page  for the 1982/83 season: www.lfchistory.net/SeasonArchive/Games/23

Liverpool wiki page for the 1982/83 season: https://liverpoolfc.fandom.com/wiki/1982-83_season





Match Highlights...



'1982 Charity Shield: Liverpool 1-0 Spurs'

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/djB4e7Nochg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/djB4e7Nochg</a>







League Game 1: 'Liverpool 3-0 West Brom':-

www.lfchistory.net/SeasonArchive/Game/1282



League Game 2: 'Birmingham 0-0 Liverpool':-

www.lfchistory.net/SeasonArchive/Game/1283



League Game 3: 'Arsenal 0 - 2 Liverpool':-

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/9HLb-yzwA0E" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/9HLb-yzwA0E</a>



League Game 4: 'Liverpool 4-3 Nottingham Forest':-

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/YrRVBGGhow0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/YrRVBGGhow0</a>



League Game 5: 'Liverpool 3-3 Luton':-

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/QoMtgUWRp04" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/QoMtgUWRp04</a>



League Game 6: 'Swansea 0 -3 Liverpool':-

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/ZAP4eUBk8s8" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/ZAP4eUBk8s8</a>



League Game 7: 'Liverpool 5-0 Southampton':-

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/J1YYFaESq7I" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/J1YYFaESq7I</a>



League Game 8: 'Ipswich Town 1-0 Liverpool':-

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/cPKdzevQfWE" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/cPKdzevQfWE</a>



League Game 9: 'West Ham United 3-1 Liverpool':-

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/xcNwRjbZ-L0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/xcNwRjbZ-L0</a>



League Game 10: 'Liverpool 0-0 Manchester United':-

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/gybgOTlqTGI" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/gybgOTlqTGI</a>



League Game 11: 'Stoke City 1-1 Liverpool ':-

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/dXUKI-38ED4" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/dXUKI-38ED4</a>



League Game 12: 'Liverpool 3-1 Brighton':-

www.lfchistory.net/SeasonArchive/Game/1298



League Game 13: 'Everton 0 - 5 Liverpool' (36 minutes):-

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/Ab7qhKSz0AE" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/Ab7qhKSz0AE</a>



League Game 13: 'Everton 0 - 5 Liverpool' (5 minutes):-

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/3aAIl876zVU" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/3aAIl876zVU</a>



League Game 14: 'Liverpool 4-0 Coventry':-

www.lfchistory.net/SeasonArchive/Game/1302



League Game 15: 'Notts County 1-2 Liverpool':-

www.lfchistory.net/SeasonArchive/Game/1303



League Game 16: 'Liverpool 3-0 Spurs':-

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/m7UmVt2-C6o" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/m7UmVt2-C6o</a>



League Game 17: 'Norwich 1-0 Liverpool':-

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/r1fNN5itI4A" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/r1fNN5itI4A</a>



League Game 18: 'Liverpool 3-1 Watford':-

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/4frgCWdDlDk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/4frgCWdDlDk</a>



League Game 19: 'Aston Villa 2-4 Liverpool':-

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/rlOg7XEBTag" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/rlOg7XEBTag</a>



League Game 20: 'Liverpool 5-2 Manchester City':-

www.lfchistory.net/SeasonArchive/Game/1309



League Game 21: 'Sunderland 0-0 Liverpool':-

www.lfchistory.net/SeasonArchive/Game/1310



League Game 22: 'Liverpool 5-1 Notts County':-

www.lfchistory.net/SeasonArchive/Game/1311



League Game 23: 'Liverpool 3-1 Arsenal':-

www.lfchistory.net/SeasonArchive/Game/1312



League Game 24: 'West Brom 0-1 Liverpool':-

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/fN6UEKKPkPM" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/fN6UEKKPkPM</a>



League Game 25: 'Liverpool 1-0 Birmingham':-

www.lfchistory.net/SeasonArchive/Game/1316



League Game 26: 'Luton Town 1-3 Liverpool':-

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/L3YTzfdpSe0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/L3YTzfdpSe0</a>



League Game 27: 'Liverpool 1-0 Ipswich':-

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/rPN5LuVaw74" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/rPN5LuVaw74</a>



League Game 28: 'Manchester United 1-1 Liverpool':-

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/enw8KmIgZXA" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/enw8KmIgZXA</a>



League Game 29: 'Liverpool 5-1 Stoke City':-

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/pJ8Z4czOLl4" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/pJ8Z4czOLl4</a>



League Game 30: 'Liverpool 3-0 West Ham':-

www.lfchistory.net/SeasonArchive/Game/1326



League Game 31: 'Liverpool 0-0 Everton':-

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/HW5P3Y9706w" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/HW5P3Y9706w</a>



League Game 32: 'Brighton 2-2 Liverpool':-

www.lfchistory.net/SeasonArchive/Game/1329



League Game 33: 'Liverpool 1-0 Sunderland':-

www.lfchistory.net/SeasonArchive/Game/1331



League Game 34: 'Manchester City 0-4 Liverpool':-

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/4L66EB1k3T0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/4L66EB1k3T0</a>

www.lfchistory.net/SeasonArchive/Game/1332



League Game 35: 'Liverpool 3-0 Swansea':-

www.lfchistory.net/SeasonArchive/Game/1333



^ Liverpool's last league win of the 1982/83 season



League Game 36: 'Coventry 0-0 Liverpool':-

www.lfchistory.net/SeasonArchive/Game/1334



League Game 37: 'Southampton 3-2 Liverpool':-

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/CCGw2QgzecI" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/CCGw2QgzecI</a>



League Game 38: 'Liverpool 0-2 Norwich':-

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/jj0wPR1d2wY" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/jj0wPR1d2wY</a>



League Game 39: 'Spurs 2-0 Liverpool':-

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/v7otjN5xmhw" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/v7otjN5xmhw</a>



League Game 40: 'Nottingham Forest 1-0 Liverpool':-

www.lfchistory.net/SeasonArchive/Game/1338



League Game 41: 'Liverpool 1-1 Aston Villa':-

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/tx5SJlnq6u4" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/tx5SJlnq6u4</a>



League Game 42: 'Watford 1-2 Liverpool':-

www.lfchistory.net/SeasonArchive/Game/1340





Final League Table...



^ from www.11v11.com/league-tables/league-division-one/16-may-1983 - with week-to-week league tables for throughout the whole season.






Photos from the 1-1 home draw vs Aston Villa when Liverpool were presented the League Trophy:-
















The FA Cup...



3rd Round: 'Blackburn 1-2 Liverpool':-

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/r1MgBSLnmIg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/r1MgBSLnmIg</a>



4th Round: 'Liverpool 2-0 Stoke':-

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/fWSxPjdPjw4" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/fWSxPjdPjw4</a>



5th Round: 'Liverpool 1-2 Brighton & Hove Albion':-

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/yV-spXvw9Kc" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/yV-spXvw9Kc</a>






European Cup...



Euro Cup, 1st Round, 1st leg: 'Dundalk 1-4 Liverpool':-

www.lfchistory.net/SeasonArchive/Game/1287



Euro Cup, 1st Round, 2nd leg: 'Liverpool 1-0 Dundalk':-

www.lfchistory.net/SeasonArchive/Game/1290



Euro Cup, 2nd Round, 1st leg: 'HJK Helsinki 1-0 Liverpool':-

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/QzpGALUhs-c" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/QzpGALUhs-c</a>



Euro Cup, 2nd Round, 2nd leg: 'Liverpool 5-0 HJK Helsinki':-

www.lfchistory.net/SeasonArchive/Game/1299



Euro Cup, 3rd Round, 1st leg: 'Widzew Lodz 2-0 Liverpool':-

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/o8YV7pNyYgw" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/o8YV7pNyYgw</a>



Euro Cup, 3rd Round, 2nd leg: 'Liverpool 3-2 Widzew Lodz' (Liverpool go out 3-4 on aggregate):-

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/iNfBnfvAv5o" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/iNfBnfvAv5o</a>






The League Cup...



2nd Round, 1st Leg: 'Ipswich 1-2 Liverpool':-

www.lfchistory.net/SeasonArchive/Game/1292



2nd Round, 2nd Leg: 'Liverpool 2-0 Ipswich':-

www.lfchistory.net/SeasonArchive/Game/1297



3rd Round: 'Liverpool 1-0 Rotherham':-

www.lfchistory.net/SeasonArchive/Game/1301



4th Round: 'Liverpool 2-0 Norwich':-

www.lfchistory.net/SeasonArchive/Game/1305



5th Round: 'Liverpool 2-1 West Ham':-

www.lfchistory.net/SeasonArchive/Game/1315



Semi-Final, 1st leg: 'Liverpool 3-0 Burnley':-

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/PLfvbfC3u4Q" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/PLfvbfC3u4Q</a>



Semi Final, 2nd leg: 'Burnley 1-0 Liverpool':-

www.lfchistory.net/SeasonArchive/Game/1321



1983 League Cup Final: 'Liverpool 2-1 Manchester United' (50 minutes):-

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/7x3CNz0YErs" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/7x3CNz0YErs</a>



1983 League Cup Final: 'Liverpool 2-1 Manchester United' (5 minutes):-

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/E9KS3WEv1ck" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/E9KS3WEv1ck</a>

















A few articles on Liverpool's 1982-83 season - Bob Paisley's swansong...


Liverpool FC in 1982/83 - Paisley bows out in style with 6th title in 9 years: www.thisisanfield.com/2020/05/liverpool-fc-in-1982-83

We are the Champions: 1982-83 – Liverpool: https://gameofthepeople.com/2017/06/18/we-are-the-champions-1982-83-liverpool

Paisley Gates: https://paisleygates.com/bob-paisley

The Understated Tactician Who Conquered All of Europe With Liverpool: www.90min.com/posts/6426475-bob-paisley-the-understated-tactician-who-conquered-all-of-europe-with-liverpool

Liverpool’s Three Time European Cup Manager: https://historyofsoccer.info/bob_paisley

Bob Paisley Manager Profile at LiverpoolFC.com: www.liverpoolfc.com/history/heroes/bob-paisley

Bob Paisley: The Playing Years: www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1639366836222363&set=a.761108087381580

Brian Clough lavishes praise on Bob Paisley: www.europeancuphistory.com/paisley.html

Roy Evans' tribute to 'modest genius' Bob Paisley: www.liverpoolfc.com/news/first-team/290805-watch-roy-evans-tribute-to-modest-genius-bob-paisley

Icons Of Liverpool - Bob Paisley: https://lastwordonsports.com/football/2020/04/18/icons-of-liverpool-bob-paisley

Liverpool 1983 Milk Cup Final: https://redglories.wordpress.com/2021/03/17/liverpool-1983-milk-cup-final

League Cup Final Of The Day: Liverpool vs Manchester United, 1983: https://twohundredpercent.net/league-cup-liverpool-man-utd-1983

1975-85 Liverpool: Best decade in the history of the Reds: www.thesportslegends.com/dream-team/1975-85-liverpool-best-decade-in-the-history-of-the-reds

Tthe humble genius who ranks alongside Ancelotti and Zidane: https://en.as.com/soccer/bob-paisley-the-humble-genius-who-ranks-alongside-ancelotti-and-zidane-n

The gentle giant who couldn't stop winning: https://thesefootballtimes.co/2016/05/05/bob-paisley-the-gentle-man-who-couldnt-stop-winning

Bob Paisley - How Liverpool's reluctant hero began a revolution: www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/28772320






'Liverpool 1982/83 - 10 minute review':-

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/zWe_YAOl_bk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/zWe_YAOl_bk</a>



'1982-83 Season (ITV)' (mixed matches - with some Liverpool matches - read video description for more info):-

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/ZTy-WcqR6ok" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/ZTy-WcqR6ok</a>



'Liverpool FC 1983 Fan Club record' (audio only - read video description for more info):-

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/XUTWW9pvYnY" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/XUTWW9pvYnY</a>



'BBC Goal of the Season 1982-83: Kenny Dalglish', for Scotland vs Belgium:-

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/Rclr4rbWe30" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/Rclr4rbWe30</a>

^ a better quality video can be seen here - www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIU3yCkxGR4





Kenny Dalglish - Footballer Of The Year 1983 - receives his award from Pele:-








Massive thanks and kudos to Dave Waller, idamaria7, and all the other Liverpool fans putting up old Liverpool content online for everyone to see. :thumbup :champ



Some 'videos and info on Bob Paisley' post: www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=326122.msg18191365#msg18191365











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www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=345769.msg17787576#msg17787576 & www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=112969.0



Some 'older' League Titles - 1989/90 : 1987/88 : 1985/86 : 1983/84 : 1982/83 : 1981/82 : 1979/80 : 1978/79 : 1976/77 : 1975/76 : 1972/73 : 1965/66 : 1963/64.

A few other seasons of note - 1977/78 : 1980/81 : 1988/89 : 1990/91 : 2004/05 : 2008/09. | Legendary Managers - Shankly : Paisley : Fagan : Houllier : Rafa : Klopp.

'Season Review' videos (from 1987/88 onwards) & some older 'Club History' videos : www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=328573.msg18013134#msg18013134

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Re: Bob Paisley's Swansong - the 1982-83 season
« Reply #37 on: July 26, 2022, 11:28:47 pm »
Why bother with YT - Jason links it all here