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It wouldn`t be possible to have any type of blog about Liverpool without a mention of "probably" the greatest club football team in the world Liverpool FC.Carling definitely got it right the day they decide to sponsor Liverpool FC.
Liverpool Football Club is now world reknowned and regarded as one of the top club sides in the world along with the likes of Real Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern Munich,Man Utd,Juventus, Ac Milan Inter Milan.With 5 European Cups to their name they rank only behind Madrid and Ac in numbers of wins.In their history since 1892 they have won 19 top division Championships, 3 Eufa Cups, 7 F.A. Cups (although thery had to wait till 1965 for their first having lost in two previous finals), 7 League Cups (including a record sequence of 4 consecutive wins).They have also contested the world club championships but despite dominating the game in 2006 they lost to Brazil Champions by a single goal and still wait for a win here. The only Trophy to elude them besides this was the European Cup winners cup which is now no longer in existence.They did contest the final in 1967 in Glasgow but were beaten 2-1 by Borussia Dortmund after what was considered one of the most flukiest goals ever by german winger Lothar Emerich. A seemingly inocuous cross from the winger ended up deceiving both Tommy Lawrence and Ron Yeats to give the Germans the winner. liverpool did get their revenge in some way later on as they have put Dortmund out of two competitions since .
Incredibly Liverpool were not the first professional football club in the city.This honour goes to Everton FC( The only thing they have over us) Ironically Liverpool Football Club would not exist today if it were not for Everton. In the early days of the Football League Everton played at Stanley Park as the then called St Domingo vale. They later adopted the name Everton after the district in Liverpool they originated from.The club then rented a field in Anfield to play their matches but a subsequent dispute about increased rent saw Everton move away to Goodison park.The then owner of the field, who was a local brewer, decided to form his own club and the rest is history.Century.Liverpool has two Premier League teams Everton FC and Liverpool FC both with well over 100 years of history.In fact Liverpool FC were born out of Everton FC as Liverpool were formed after Everton FC left Anfield becasue the owner of Anfield put the rent up!In the sixties the City was synonymous withthe pop culture of the era.The Mersey sound filled the terraces of the Gladys St end at Everton and the Kop at Anfield.The Beatles, Gerry and the Pacemakers, the Searchers, Cilla Black, The Tremeloes all sang the Merseybeat along with Billy J Kramer and the Dakotas and the iconic Billy Fury and of course we cant forget Frankie Vaughn who came form the "cast iron shore" as it was known in the Dingle area of the City.Football and pop music fitted together naturally like a hand in a glove.
Liverpool FC were finally established in 1892.They were successful from the off , winning the Lancashire Championships and it was not long before they won the football league championship.
In fact they are one of only a handful of teams to go a whole season without defeat.
In 1914 Liverpool appeared in their first F.A.Cup final.It was also the first timer the game had been attended by royalty.Liverpool lost 2-0 to Burnley at the Crystal Palace.They would have to wait another 51 years for their first victory!
Liverpool became known as a team to be reckoned with and figured amongst the top teams in the 20s and 30s.Major competition at that time as from the Lancashire clubs such as Bolton, Blackburn etc. In the south Arsenal were the top side and in the north east top players played for Sunderland and Newcastle.Liverpool won the first post war championship in 1946/47 season and in the 1950s had a lull in their success as they were relegated to the old second division and spent 8 years there.This was the only time in their history they hadnt been in the top division.
The manager Phil Taylor was sacked in 1959 and a young scottish international called Bill Shankly
was brought to the club to take it back to the top flight. Shankly was a tough tackling Scottish international with his career chopped short because of the War . He came from a family of footballers from the Scottish mining area in Ayrshire.His managerial career commenced after a short period playing for his old club Preston after the war. His first club was Carlisle then a third division team.He then went to Huddersfield to further his career where he made a name for himself.The liverpool directors thought this was the man to bring success back to Anfield and subsequent to his apointment Liverpool were promoted as Champions in 1961.Their first season saw then finish 8th and a 2-2 derby result with Everton. The following season saw the first division championship return to Anfield for the first time in 17 years. Liverpool won the FA cup the following year and then followed that up with another championship in 1966, World Cup year. Everton won the cup the same year so the opening game of the 1967 season the Annual Charity Shield was played between the old rivals at Goodison Park. A Roger Hunt goal sealed victory for Liverpool.
Shankly remained at the helm till 1974 winning the Fa cup again and the Eufa Cup.The European Cup eluded him. A semi final defeat to Inter in 1967 (after some very dubious refereeing in Milan)was the closest he came.Only one manager before Shankly had reigned longer . Hewas succeeded by Bob Paisley in 1974 who went on to be the most successful ever English manager dominating the domestic scene through the seventies and winning 3 European Cups. Liverpool dominated in the 80s and the middle 90s .It all started to come apart at the end of the 90s and it is now 17 years since the club has won a Championship although they have won the Champions League, Fa Cup, League Cup it still rankles with kopites that we have still not achieved the domestic prize that was our own in the 70s and 80s.
The new manager Rafa Benitez
is now coming into his third season with the club and he has demonstrated he knows how to win trophies.With the new American ownership at the club it is the concensus of opinion that the Championship is not far away.
Everyone at Anfield is looking forard to the new season.
