April 23rd
1969 – Larry Lloyd joined from hometown club Bristol Rovers for a fee of £50,000. He is one of a rare breed to leave Anfield in his prime, and go on to better things – helping Nottingham Forest to two European Cups, one League title, League Cup and FA Charity Shield. He had won League and UEFA Cup medals, appearing 218 times and notching five times. He was sold to Coventry City for £240,000 in August 1974.
1977 - We drew 2-2 with Everton in our FA Cup Semi-final encounter at Maine Road, with Terry McDermott and Jimmy Case twice putting us in front, before levellers from Duncan McKenzie and Bruce Rioch. Terry Mac’s goal was later named as the BBC’s Goal of the Season, while Evertonians still protest over Clive Thomas disallowing Bryan Hamilton’s last-gasp ‘winner’. We won the replay at the same venue four days later, although we lost the Final at Wembley to Manchester United
1983 – We edged closer to the championship despite losing 2-0 at home to Norwich City, as they became the first side to take all six points off us after the introduction of three points for a win. Mark Lawrenson put through his own net before Martin O’Neill doubled the visitors’ lead from distance. Bob Paisley had received his 21st Bell’s managerial award prior to kick-off.
1988 - We secured our seventeenth League title with four more games remaining, as a curling Peter Beardsley strike was enough to defeat Tottenham Hotspur at Anfield. This was our ninth championship in the space of thirteen years.
1991 - We beat Crystal Palace 3-0 at Anfield. Ian Rush scored his 300th competitive club goal in 532 games for Chester, Juventus and Liverpool, while John Barnes also struck before a late own goal from Eddie McGoldrick.
2011 – Maxi Rodríguez bagged a treble as we thumped Birmingham City 5-0 at Anfield, with Dirk Kuyt netting for the seventh time in nine games and Joe Cole adding a late fifth.
2016 – Daniel Sturridge and Adam Lallana struck inside half an hour against Newcastle United but we were pegged back after the break by Pap iss Cissé and Jack Colback to draw 2-2 with Rafael Benítez’s Newcastle side.
2017 - Crystal Palace won at Anfield for the third consecutive season, despite Phillipe Coutinho giving us the lead. Ex-red Christian Benteke bagged a brace, the most recent of his seven goals past us to date.
1969- unfortunately Larry passed away recently
1977- Might have worked for us, but Clive Thomas was a right dick, controversially disallowed a legit goal, older Evertonians still curse him
1983- A very strange end to the season, as we lost 5 and drew 2 of our last 7 but still won the title easily.
1988- A draw was all that was needed but a win over spurs brought home title number 17, party time. Posters of this were in my house for years including Steve McMahon pouring a can of budweiser over Peter Beardsley
1991- Fantastic goal by Ian Rush, sadly we remained 3 points behind Arsenal who beat QPR that night
2011- A fine sunny Saturday, we were in belting form and soon after Kenny Dalglish got a full time contract
2016- A crap result, earlier that day it was confirmed Mamadou Sakho would miss the rest of the season as the club decided to leave him out when word came through he had failed a drugs test, it transpired earlier in the season Sakho was using slimming pills which contained a certain substance, however his name was eventually cleared but as a result he missed the Europa league final and the european championships for France in the summer. Sakho never played for the club again, the following season his unprofessional carry on in pre season saw him sent home from a tour and he later stupidly vented his anger on social media for not playing more. Klopp had enough
2017- This would be our last league defeat at Anfield for over 3 years, until Burnley won 1-0 at Anfield in early 2021, sensationally that would begin a run of 6 straight home defeats (Man City, Brighton, Everton, Fulham and Chelsea, not in that order)
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