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Post by DunnetHeadMoonraker on Apr 25, 2018 10:53:09 GMT
Our last league win at Anfield was on Friday the 20 th of March 1959 in the old second division. The game had a 7.15 p.m. kick off because the Grand National was on the following day.
According to a Liverpool web site our team was Robertson , McCue , Allen , Asprey , Thompson , Cairns , Howitt , Anderson , Wilshaw , King and Wallace and our manager was Frank Taylor.
In the 1958/59 season I was an 11 year old living in Devizes in Wiltshire after leaving primary school in Blythe Bridge. On the night of the game I was in my bedroom reading comics ( that's what 11 year olds did in those days ) listening to our valve radio waiting for the result of the game. The result came through as Liverpool 3 ( instant gloom ) Stoke City 4 ( elation ). I was so excited that I couldn't wait to tell my school pals when I next saw them. They couldn't care less as they were all Swindon Town fans.
Our goal scorers were Bill Asprey , Dennis Wilshaw with 2 goals and a Liverpool own goal. The Liverpool side included Alan A'Court who was our caretaker manager for one game when we lost at home 2 - 3 to Blyth Spartans in the FA Cup.
p.s. I presume that many of you wouldn't understand the term ' valve radio '. Back in the 1950's most radio sets were operated from the mains supply and included electronic valves such as diodes , triodes and pentodes which were about the size of light bulbs and used to rectify or amplify electrical signals. In the first year of my Physics degree in 1967 we had to answer questions on electronic valves. In my final year exams we had moved on to answer questions on bipolar transistors.
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Post by Gods on Apr 25, 2018 11:10:05 GMT
Ha - nice one !
I think I am right in saying we have never won a top flight match at Anfield.
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Post by Gifton on Apr 25, 2018 11:21:41 GMT
Our last league win at Anfield was on Friday the 20 th of March 1959 in the old second division. The game had a 7.15 p.m. kick off because the Grand National was on the following day. According to a Liverpool web site our team was Robertson , McCue , Allen , Asprey , Thompson , Cairns , Howitt , Anderson , Wilshaw , King and Wallace and our manager was Frank Taylor. In the 1958/59 season I was an 11 year old living in Devizes in Wiltshire after leaving primary school in Blythe Bridge. On the night of the game I was in my bedroom reading comics ( that's what 11 year olds did in those days ) listening to our valve radio waiting for the result of the game. The result came through as Liverpool 3 ( instant gloom ) Stoke City 4 ( elation ). I was so excited that I couldn't wait to tell my school pals when I next saw them. They couldn't care less as they were all Swindon Town fans. Our goal scorers were Bill Asprey , Dennis Wilshaw with 2 goals and a Liverpool own goal. The Liverpool side included Alan A'Court who was our caretaker manager for one game when we lost at home 2 - 3 to Blyth Spartans in the FA Cup. p.s. I presume that many of you wouldn't understand the term ' valve radio '. Back in the 1950's most radio sets were operated from the mains supply and included electronic valves such as diodes , triodes and pentodes which were about the size of light bulbs and used to rectify or amplify electrical signals. In the first year of my Physics degree in 1967 we had to answer questions on electronic valves. In my final year exams we had moved on to answer questions on bipolar transistors. 59 years of service and he still gets stick on here... |
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Post by Veritas on Apr 25, 2018 12:19:59 GMT
Ha - nice one ! I think I am right in saying we have never won a top flight match at Anfield. Correct, time for a change/miracle |
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Post by Gods on Apr 25, 2018 13:15:14 GMT
Our last league win at Anfield was on Friday the 20 th of March 1959 in the old second division. The game had a 7.15 p.m. kick off because the Grand National was on the following day. According to a Liverpool web site our team was Robertson , McCue , Allen , Asprey , Thompson , Cairns , Howitt , Anderson , Wilshaw , King and Wallace and our manager was Frank Taylor. In the 1958/59 season I was an 11 year old living in Devizes in Wiltshire after leaving primary school in Blythe Bridge. On the night of the game I was in my bedroom reading comics ( that's what 11 year olds did in those days ) listening to our valve radio waiting for the result of the game. The result came through as Liverpool 3 ( instant gloom ) Stoke City 4 ( elation ). I was so excited that I couldn't wait to tell my school pals when I next saw them. They couldn't care less as they were all Swindon Town fans. Our goal scorers were Bill Asprey , Dennis Wilshaw with 2 goals and a Liverpool own goal. The Liverpool side included Alan A'Court who was our caretaker manager for one game when we lost at home 2 - 3 to Blyth Spartans in the FA Cup. p.s. I presume that many of you wouldn't understand the term ' valve radio '. Back in the 1950's most radio sets were operated from the mains supply and included electronic valves such as diodes , triodes and pentodes which were about the size of light bulbs and used to rectify or amplify electrical signals. In the first year of my Physics degree in 1967 we had to answer questions on electronic valves. In my final year exams we had moved on to answer questions on bipolar transistors. 59 years of service and he still gets stick on here... Doesn't look old enough does he? Still gets around the park well in all fairness. |
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Post by sheikhmomo on Apr 26, 2018 7:26:10 GMT
Pretty soon you'll need regression therapy or Doris Stokes to recall our last league win at Anfield.
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Post by JurgenVandeurzen on Apr 26, 2018 7:38:21 GMT
1959! - Jesus Christ.
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Post by mjg13x on Jan 14, 2019 19:26:59 GMT
I'd been looking for this post with a faint memory of it for the better part of the year. Finally found it today!
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Post by davejohnno1 on Jan 14, 2019 19:28:51 GMT
Ha - nice one ! I think I am right in saying we have never won a top flight match at Anfield. Even when we won at Anfield, we lost  |
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Post by Staffsoatcake on Jan 14, 2019 20:24:14 GMT
Jones out.
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Post by bloodtypered on Jan 14, 2019 22:03:00 GMT
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Post by norman conquest on Jan 14, 2019 22:22:21 GMT
remember it as if it were yesterday, 5 days old at the time and still in the hospital, me mam took the full week or more you were entitled to at the time
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Post by Absolution on Jan 14, 2019 22:26:58 GMT
remember it as if it were yesterday, 5 days old at the time and still in the hospital, me mam took the full week or more you were entitled to at the time Get in for free at the turnstiles, spend half the match hurling abuse at the scousers, quick pint afterwards then straight back to the incubator. Happy days. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2019 11:07:12 GMT
I remember the old valve radio. We had one, and I used to love listening to four way family favourites. My favourite song in those days was, The Story Of My Life, sang by Michael Holliday, a song that I still love nowadays. It seems that we have a very poor record against Liverpool. Over the years I think we have fared better against Man Utd. It seems that way to me anyway!
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Post by bloodtypered on Oct 22, 2021 21:34:54 GMT
I was 2 weeks old...I nearly went to the game
(dad stokes number 11)
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Post by withnall on Oct 23, 2021 1:31:59 GMT
I was nearly 1 year old then.
Remember it well.
Sat in the back yard with me dad (he was nine and a half) sipping bottles of barley wine waiting for the pigeon to come back with the score.
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Post by neddy on Oct 23, 2021 8:09:50 GMT
I was two and stood in the kitchen sink on Sandford Hill when the result came in.
It must have been bath night!
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Post by metalhead on Oct 23, 2021 8:29:08 GMT
We did win that League Cup semi-final against them although lost on penalties.
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Post by J-Roar on Oct 23, 2021 8:33:39 GMT
We did win that League Cup semi-final against them although lost on penalties. The decline started after that. |
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Post by wuzza on Oct 23, 2021 8:48:02 GMT
I like it - a memory from before I was born !
Suddenly I feel a bit less decrepit this weekend 🙂
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Post by wuzza on Oct 23, 2021 8:50:32 GMT
Programme tokens ! Remember them - collected in the vain hope that they may be needed for some big game come the end of the season. Strangely never seemed to be an issue at Stoke ! |
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Post by maninasuitcase on Oct 23, 2021 9:28:10 GMT
I was -11 at the time but partied all night in the nut sack. 😉
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Post by somersetstokie on Oct 23, 2021 12:46:05 GMT
I remember some great late 60's contests at Anfield, with the Kop very often applauding the performance of Gordon Banks, especially that day he then went on to have his accident. We still didn't manage any wins even with him in goal.
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