Excellent mate, excellent. My usual spec was on the right too, but that night I was on the left side of the Kop. I know I had a good view of our left wing so whatever magic was weaved there in the build up to Gillespie's goal I saw. I remember it being wonderful but what exactly it was I no longer know. Barnes had something to do with it I'm sure.
Anyway, I enjoyed your memory. It tallies with my own, even if there's still something more to discover.
Well, as you can see in royhendo's video, it came from a corner. I really remember it very well.
Go to about 59:45 in the vid and there's another moment of Beardsley genius. He gets the ball in the area and there are three defenders right there with him.
He does what no-one else would and turns on the spot and completely leaves all those 3 standing (and presumably embarrassed too). He gets in a pretty good shot and Sutton parries it away and one of the Forest defenders is happy to just put it out for a corner - that was the barrage we were putting them under that day; they were happy to concede a corner.
Then Sutton looks relieved and gets ready for the corner.
That's when everything just went too fast for a lot of Kopites, the whole Forest defence ... and the BBC cameraman.
I don't know who took the corner but it was taken super-quick and obviously went short to Barnes. He gets it to Houghton (Motson then mentions Aldo but only cos he thinks he's going to get it) and Houghton fizzes it to Gary Gillespie who smashes it confidently home (for his second goal in three games (two on the trot at Anfield) - he'd scored in the 3-3 against Man Utd 11 days before).
Where I was standing on the middle left of the Kop, I looked at someone to say "What happened?" and he looked at me to say the same thing. We all looked at each other in the melee doing the same and the general feeling was "Wow. This team is fucking phenomenal." It was just too quick for the brain or eye to even take it all in. Liverpool were so in tune with each other.
Motson: "Decisive finish. And a move so fast from the corner that all that Sutton had done earlier [i.e. keeping out Beardsley] was wiped out in another
bewildering piece of Liverpool football. No wonder the keeper shakes his head. How do you cater for this?"
Then a bit later: "And isn't that again the Liverpool trademark? The opposition perhaps just slightly relaxing - or heaving a sigh of relief - after the goalkeeper had done
so well to prevent Beardsley scoring in the first place. And in a matter of
seconds the ball is in the back of the net anyway."
