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Being A Liverpool fan in the 80’s

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Liverpool fans were spoiled with success throughout the '80s

Liverpool fans were spoiled with success throughout the ’80s

There are many football fans that encourage the belief that ‘football was better before the Premier League’, and while many would disagree, it’s pretty easy to argue from a Liverpool fan’s point-of-view that it was. Prior to the Premier League’s inaugural season, Liverpool won 7 league titles from 1980-1990, 2 FA Cups, 4 league cups, 6 charity shields and 2 European Cups. Since the ’80s ended, things haven’t looked so pretty.

Being a Red born in the 1980’s, I’ve always been in a rare position of having experienced the rise, fall, rise and fall again of the club we all hold dear. Thankfully, things appear to once again be on the rise – hopefully for good, this time – but it’s remarkable how things have changed since then.

Going to the game in the ’80s was an entirely different beast, with rolling terraces, vast swathes of fans standing side-by-side, colourful characters (on and off the pitch), and fans weren’t priced out of supporting their club. The ’80s truly were the best (and worst) times to be a Red, from a purely footballing perspective, which was perhaps in stark contrast to the fortunes of the city itself. The sad decline/slump of the city of Liverpool in the ’80s mean that football was the one, true escape and allowed many to travel frequently around Europe to countries and cities that many would never have dreamed visiting, taking a carnival atmosphere that can only be generated by Liverpool fans in Europe with them everywhere they went, dreaming of that next European Cup win.

It’s easy to say ‘those were much simpler times’ and perhaps they were, but once the ground is packed and the first whistle blows, football has barely changed at all. The styles of match-goers has changed completely though, with the ‘casual’ look first introduced by Liverpool fans, returning from their European travels in the late 1970’s with exotic, previously unknown sportswear; moving from smart, straight jeans and Adidas Originals, to a more neutral, ‘Topshop/man’ style, which is nowhere near as distinctive as the subcultures which grew up around the great successes at home and in Europe throughout the ’80s.

Being so young in the that decade, the successes are a slightly vague, blurry memory but I can still vividly remember sitting on shoulders, eagerly awaiting the victory parades, in my little yellow, Crown Paints away shirt. These days, clubs have to be careful about prematurely arranging for victory parades. In those glory days it was almost a foregone conclusion before the season started, it was just a case of which one we’d be bringing home, or how many!

Times such as these will likely never return, as such dominance that we saw from the ‘Red Machine’ in the ’80s is a rare thing, with clubs enjoying maybe 2-3 years of dominance before being usurped. It’s likely we’ll never see any side dominant for over a decade ever again, but we’ll always have the memories.

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I'm a 32 year old Liverpool fan, living in the heart of the City Centre. I've supported the club since the day I was born and have been writing articles for L4L for over 3 years, writing close over 350 articles in that time. My favorite player of the past generation is Sami Hyypia.

I am the current editor for L4L, with my day job being in R&D for the NHS.

2 comments

  • matt helm says:

    Nostalgia – love it!

  • Diego 'Digger' Souness says:

    I still think the 88 team is the greatest side in the history of football. Unbelievable combination of Barnes Beardsley and Aldo. Majestic team with the swagger and style no team has ever matched.

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