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I was in the pub the other night, talking as you do about football.

Friend of mine Dave is a season ticket holder talking about his earliest memories and how he has lived through watched and travelled all European Cup triumphs... Born and bred red..

He asked me the question, what is your very earliest Liverpool memory. Sadly for me it was Heysel. (Although I'm sure their would of been earlier still, but it is the one that sticks in my head). I remember the back end of the treble winning year, but not in the same vein as Heysel.

'I was ushered off to bed. With the words from my dad.. You don't wanna see this son a bit differant than last year up you go...'

Now I'm sure I would hear from better times from some of you here... Please enlighten and entertain us with your very earliest memory...
 
I was a 'fan' in the mid 80s but didn't really get it as there was no internet or much newspaper coverage ... First memory was when I went to boarding school in england ... Fowler's 5.
 
My earliest memory is of Michael Thomas the bastard. the 89-90 season. I remember Thomas scoring at the death for them to tie up winning the league in the decider. I remember being furious and that's why it sticks out. Can't believe that's nearly qtr of a century ago.
 
As a nipper I decided one day that I didn't want to follow my Gooner dad but wanted my own team to support. I knew I'd been born in Liverpool and, looking at the back page of the paper, I noticed there was a team from there, so I decided that was the one for me. That season we were champions of the Second Division (now the Championship) and won promotion back to what's now the Premiership (not that I really understood what was going on at that age). A couple of seasons later we were league champions for the first time in the modern era, and the glory days began.
 
I think @Judge Jules wins.

I honestly don't know what my first memory really. I remember Ian Rush scoring a goal and I kicked a cushion in delight and knocked a vase off the table. Luckily for me it didn't break and no one seen it happening.
 
My Dad taking me when I was about 6 years old to see us vs Ipswich when they were good and had John Wark for them. We stood on the Anfield Road end and I took a milk crate to stand on. I got tired after a while so sat on it a couple of times and missed the goals. I think we won 2-0 but the whole trip was sooooo exciting!
 
It's not my earliest memory - that's just a red blur - but the earliest one that sticks in my mind was when I was in the Kop with my uncle. I can't even remember who were playing but I've got an incredibly vivid memory of one attack: the ball was passed diagonally from the right to centre midfield, where Peter Cormack received it, swivelled round and passed it diagonally to Heighway on the other wing. The thing was, for some bizarre reason, Cormack, as he swivelled, raised his arm like a Spanish dancer. In my childish and incredibly stupid eyes I thought it was the most stylish thing I'd ever seen. So the next footie match we had at school I tried it all the time - arm up, swivel, pass: olé! Needless to say, I was, quite rightly, clattered quite viciously and advised to 'cut out the nancy stuff'. A lesson learned. But whenever I go to Anfield I look at the pitch before the match starts and I can still see bloody Cormack doing that strange little affectation.
 
1977 FA Cup final on the box 🙁

It was seven years later before I went to my first proper match, a derby in the Milk Cup, that I think Everton won 1-0. I paid £2.20 to stand on the Kop, two years later graduated to a Kop season ticker (£55) and then soon after Hillsborough moved to the Kemlyn (lose track of prices there),

Now its TV, Internet & once a season to Anfield 🙁
 
My Uncle took me to the Liverpool Newcastle game in the 95-96 season 4-3 late Stan Colleymore winner magic that game 🙂. That's the earliest memory that I can remember.
 
Yes 1977 FA cup for sure. 2-1, say no more. But I do remember a King Kenny poster going up on the wall of my bedroom around then too. Two hands in the air. The fact there was Irish players on the team, heighway especially was part of the reason..
 
So as a 4/5 year old I was told by my scouse uncle that I am a Liverpool fan (i was bought lots of merch to remind me of this) and then the first match I watched was on tv when I was around 7 and Tony Yeboah scored that goal for Leeds. I distinctly remember thinking at the time that it was like 3-0 at full time as I didn't that they were replays and not just goals 🙂

I also used to watch some VHSs that my grandad brought down when he came to visit of Rush scoring 4 against Everton.

🙂
 
My earliest memory was when Houillier came in as a joint-manager with Evans, my earliest football memory was probably the 1998 world cup
 
Just a random game on the b&w portable telly. I was too young to take anything in but was mesmerised by the fact that the telly had the same branding as the players had on their shirts. 'Hitachi'.
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The umbro one. Edit: looked it up and it had to have been between 79-82, and I would say it was to the earlier end. I would have been 6 or 7.
My older brother was a Liverpool fan so I had no choice really. Our shared bedroom had a 'This Is Anfield' sign on the door which we dutifully touched when entering. We had the duvets and I had the fresh squad poster each year up by my bed.
 
Mine is a defeat to Ipswich I think, or maybe Leicester, someone in blue anyway. Somebody called Marshall scored. I think.

That and a 0-1 defeat to Brondby are my earliest memories. Oh and that gold kit.
 
gkmacca said:
It's not my earliest memory - that's just a red blur - but the earliest one that sticks in my mind was when I was in the Kop with my uncle. I can't even remember who were playing but I've got an incredibly vivid memory of one attack: the ball was passed diagonally from the right to centre midfield, where Peter Cormack received it, swivelled round and passed it diagonally to Heighway on the other wing. The thing was, for some bizarre reason, Cormack, as he swivelled, raised his arm like a Spanish dancer. In my childish and incredibly stupid eyes I thought it was the most stylish thing I'd ever seen. So the next footie match we had at school I tried it all the time - arm up, swivel, pass: olé! Needless to say, I was, quite rightly, clattered quite viciously and advised to 'cut out the nancy stuff'. A lesson learned. But whenever I go to Anfield I look at the pitch before the match starts and I can still see bloody Cormack doing that strange little affectation.
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That wasn't by any chance the Cup tie in (I think) 1971/2 against Stoke, the weekend after Cally got his MBE? Both teams clapped him on to the pitch and Stoke (Denis Smith, Micky Pejic, Alan Hudson and all) then proceeded to kick ten bells out of him for the whole game. I ask because Cormack was doing what you describe above for practically the whole 90 minutes. Everton drew 0-0 at home to Altrincham the same afternoon. 😀
 
Judge Jules said:
That wasn't by any chance the Cup tie in (I think) 1971/2 against Stoke, the weekend after Cally got his MBE? Both teams clapped him on to the pitch and Stoke (Denis Smith, Micky Pejic, Alan Hudson and all) then proceeded to kick ten bells out of him for the whole game. I ask because Cormack was doing what you describe above for practically the whole 90 minutes. Everton drew 0-0 at home to Altrincham the same afternoon. 😀
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That afternoon is a vivid memory but the Everton score was 1-1 because at half-time they were losing 1-0 and when the score was read out at Anfield the noise was incredible, part roar, part gales of laughter. My own earliest memory is about 10 years earlier, the last day of the 60-61 season. I was at my granddads in West Derby and you could hear the noise from the crowd there if something big was happening. We had to win, and hope other results went our way to go up. Ominously, there were no roars from the crowd and the scores on the teleprinter (no internet or local radio then) confirmed that we'd drawn and would be staying down for an eighth season. The next season would be a very different story and usher in a period of amazing success.
 
I was on the Kop that day and I have to say my memory of the Everton thing is different. As I recall it, the announcer came on the PA at half-time and started: "And now some news from our friends across the park (cue assorted growling and comments various). Everton: nil (loud cheer), Altrincham: two!" (as you say, the noise that greeted THAT little titbit was unbelievable - I'll bet they heard it at Goodison). A correction was then issued after the final whistle because the Everton score turned out to be nil-nil, but it still rounded off a great day. We'd come up from the Midlands so we were off to Lime Street afterwards, and on the way there this whole stream of Reds, of which we were a part, came across a couple of bluenose stragglers trying to slip by unnoticed on the other side of the road. They failed. 😀

Happy days. Let's hope they're now coming back.
 
Judge Jules said:
That wasn't by any chance the Cup tie in (I think) 1971/2 against Stoke, the weekend after Cally got his MBE? Both teams clapped him on to the pitch and Stoke (Denis Smith, Micky Pejic, Alan Hudson and all) then proceeded to kick ten bells out of him for the whole game. I ask because Cormack was doing what you describe above for practically the whole 90 minutes. Everton drew 0-0 at home to Altrincham the same afternoon. 😀
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Ha! No, it wasn't that one - did he do it often then? Poor old Peter! The game was televised though - I must have a trawl through YouTube!
 
I'm afraid I didn't get to that many games overall, but he certainly did it/something similar a fair number of times in the games I did attend, and TBF he didn't get barracked for it, not in my hearing anyway.
 
Liverpool beating Arsenal 2-0 at Anfield. Fowler scored a screaming 30 yarder. Davor Suker missed a late penalty.
 
Steve Heighway cutting in from the left to smash it in the net past Bob Wilson.
The memory off course is cruelly tainted by the accompanying memory of Charlie George's crucifix celebration having scored what at the time seemed a screamer past the despairing leap of Ray Clemence.
The 1971 FA Cup Final through an old crappy black and white TV.
It was only a couple of years later that I realised we didn't play in an all grey strip.
 
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