On this day 40 years ago Liverpool beat Chelsea 0-1 at Stamford Bridge with an all time great goal by Kenny Dalglish to win the Canon League Championship.
May 3rd 1986 was a great day for Fenian football teams across the water.
They could play a bit of football back then.
Bad and all as the pitches were…
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Pure Wenger
Only a few years after Liverpool had lifted their embargo on Fenians.
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30 years ago Liverpool relegated Alan Ball’s Manchester City at Maine Road.
Manchester City had come back from 0-2 down to 2-2 and thought that was enough to avoid relegation. Then with one minute of play left Niall Quinn, sitting on the bench, found out it wasn’t enough and rushed down to shout at Steve Lomas who was holding the ball in the corner that he had to attack rather than waste his own team’s precious time.
But it was too late.
Today Alan Ball is dead, Maine Road no longer exists, and Manchester City FC no longer exists.
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Alan Ball was dynamic
Most of the big names were,
Imagine how they’d have flourished on decent grounds
And no fags or pints
When they moved in 1923 City called their new ground in Moss Side after the street at one corner of the ground – Maine Road.
Maine Road was originally known as Dog Kennel Lane. It was re-named Maine Road to commemorate the Maine Law during the 1870s at the insistence of the Temperance Movement, a social movement urging reduced or prohibited use of alcohol.
This stern and sober group owned land on Dog Kennel Lane and Manchester’s City Council accepted their request to rename it after the Maine Law in the US. Maine Road, of course, was probably a better name for a football ground than Dog Kennel Lane.
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Dog Kennel Lane would have been a much better name than Maine Road for a ground in which Manchester City played.
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On this day Hans Segers made a dive worth 19k