"Here are the comments from kriss for this day. He is unavailable and asked me to post this on his behalf".
Ok, here we go for the 12th of November. By the way, unless there is something really important from the dim and distant past, I am usually only looking at matches that took place since I was a match-going supporter or maybe the Shankly and post-Shankly area from 1959 onwards.
12th November 1974 : Liverpool 0 Middlesbrough 1
Another early exit from the Football League Cup we still hadn’t won. Boro’s first win at Anfield since the Second Division days of 1960. Alec Lindsay could have salvaged a draw but saw his second-half penalty saved by Jim Platt.
12th November 1977 : Queens Park Rangers 2 Liverpool 0
We dropped down to 6th place after this defeat in west London. It was our 3rd away defeat of the First Division programme.
Bob Paisley was collared for “This Is Your Life” after the match. The programme was eventually broadcast between Christmas and New Year. I had been in the audience for Bill Shankly’s appearance on the same programme a few years earlier. But I missed out on the chance of watching Paisley’s programme being recorded … and I also missed this match at Loftus Road … because I was having a weekend away in the Cotswolds.
12th November 1983 : Tottenham Hotspur 2 Liverpool 2
For the second successive League match, both Ian Rush and Michael Robinson were on the score-sheet. This would only happen once more in a First Division fixture. This was the third season in which three points were awarded for a win. A few minutes after Rush gave us the lead for the second time, we saw two points disappear when Alan Kennedy brought down Graham Roberts for a penalty which Glenn Hoddle converted.
12th November 1988 : Liverpool 1 Millwall 1
The Londoners’ first visit to Anfield for nearly ninety-three years, which had been an F.A. cup-tie when they were known as Millwall Athletic.
This was one of five home draws in the League during this season. Considering the way the 1988-89 season ended, it is easy (if, perhaps, somewhat unfair) to look at each of those draws (Tottenham, Coventry, Millwall, Wimbledon and Everton) and reflect that if just one of them had brought three points instead of one, then Arsenal would have arrived at Anfield in May with only pride at stake not a championship title. One could also, however, look at matches we won or drew which we might have drawn or lost. That’s why it’s unfair to look at it either way. Results are what they are and we have to accept them as such.
Millwall, however, worked hard for their point after Steve Nicol had quickly equalised Paul Stephenson’s early goal. Their supporters arrived on Merseyside with a fearsome modern reputation, partly because of the way they tried to dismantle Luton’s Kenilworth Road stadium in 1985. Although they filled their allocation, which is what you would expect from a promoted club, I recall that they were noisy and enthusiastic but certainly not intimidating or threatening in any way.
12th November 2000 : Liverpool 4 Coventry City 1
Gary McAllister’s first Liverpool goal and here it is at the start of this clip :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgdYF1SO0cIGary Mac’s goal opened the scoring but the best goal of the match came from former Red David Thompson who hit an explosive drive from way out that flew past Sander Westerveld. In the other goal, despite conceding four times, 19-year-old Chris Kirkland gave the sort of performance that persuaded Liverpool to part with six million pounds for his services the following summer.
12th November 2002 : Basel 3 Liverpool 3
Istanbul was still two and a half years away but we were 3-0 down at half-time in this match too. Having only drawn with Basel at Anfield, we needed a win in Switzerland to go through as Group B runners-up behind Valencia.
Here are brief highlights of an extraordinary game :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGa8bP5lvvo12th November 2006 : Arsenal 3 Liverpool 0
Our first visit to Arsenal’s new home at the Emirates Stadium brought the sort of defeat we were sadly used to seeing at Highbury in earlier times. Here are the first two goals :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKNlukWQAGwand here is the third goal by William Gallas :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=R3W2DsWnZL4We had nine players in our own penalty-area as van Persie’s corner came in yet Gallas was allowed a free header to secure the points.
12th November 2008 : Tottenham Hotspur 4 Liverpool 2
Another unhappy couple of hours in north London on this date! At the same venue where we had surrendered three League points only eleven days earlier, our exit from the League Cup was almost confirmed by the interval, by which time we were already three goals down. Headers from Hyypia and Plessis briefly gave hope of salvaging some pride if not the result but we were well beaten and can have no complaints. On the plus side, youngster Stephen Darby got a few minutes before the end but the overall performances of Messrs. Degen, Ngog, Dossena and El Zhar correctly suggested that they would struggle to see a lot of first-team action for us in the future.
