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Mon Nov 29, 2004 9:24 pmby L-type
chiggz_likes_owen wrote:I had aways been a fan of Michael Owen when i was little so i was looking at his club and immediatly love grew for the club not becuase of MO, just generally for the club. This was about in 2002
= my story
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Mon Nov 29, 2004 9:58 pmby fivecups
My folks have a photo of me in the early to mid eighties with a crown paints home top on, red shorts and socks, and a stupid orange football under my arm - proud as punch.
Dunno why I picked Liverpool, it wasn't a family thing, you just seemed to pick a team and stick with them. My first real team memories were with the likes of Barnes, Rush, Beardsley, Hansen, Molby, McMahon, Grobbelaar, Lee, Nicol etc. - mid to late eighties I guess.
I collected those football stickers - Panini - and had the Liverpool team 3 times over. Thats about it.
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Mon Nov 29, 2004 10:04 pmby JBG
Ahhhhhh, Crown Paints.....brings a tear to my eye.
Anyone remember the old Crown Paint ads on tv in the 1980s where two guys are painting a house? They had a poster of the 1985 squad pinned to the inside wall of their garden shed.
Yes, Liverpool FC, the giants of 1980s football, had football marketing down to a tee back then! 
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Mon Nov 29, 2004 10:14 pmby JBG
who the hell is diarra wrote:John Barnes' Granny wrote:Ahhhhhh, Crown Paints.....brings a tear to my eye.
Anyone remember the old Crown Paint ads on tv in the 1980s where two guys are painting a house? They had a poster of the 1985 squad pinned to the inside wall of their garden shed.
Yes, Liverpool FC, the giants of 1980s football, had football marketing down to a tee back then!
Crown paints Rule i was gutted when we changed to feckin Candy , a bloody washin machine company ! 
My first Liverpool strip ( I had to wait until I was a teenager) was the 1988/89 away strip, a flashy silver grey with a bright red Candy logo on the front!
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Mon Nov 29, 2004 10:15 pmby JBG
Actually, I think it must have been the 1989/90 strip I'm thinking about.
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Mon Nov 29, 2004 10:15 pmby fivecups
who the hell is diarra wrote:Yes, Liverpool FC, the giants of 1980s football, had football marketing down to a tee back then!
Crown paints Rule i was gutted when we changed to feckin Candy , a bloody washin machine company !
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Lol. Aye Carlsberg were a big improvement on Candy. Never liked the silver away strip either.
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Mon Nov 29, 2004 10:17 pmby fivecups
Ooops sorry JBG, didn't see your post. Meant to say I 'loved' the silver/gray away strip, I'm just jealous because I never had one. 
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Mon Nov 29, 2004 10:18 pmby who the hell is diarra
I got my 1 st as a hand me down from me cousin i was ouly about 9 was a Yellow Crown Paints one , didn't really understand the significance of what he was getting me into he along with a friend about 7 years older than me rescued me from a Blue Father n Younger Brother
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Mon Nov 29, 2004 10:20 pmby who the hell is diarra
John Barnes' Granny wrote:Actually, I think it must have been the 1989/90 strip I'm thinking about.
Blood*y hell JBG thats some good figurin i get strips mixed up we wore 4 years ago
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Mon Nov 29, 2004 10:23 pmby JBG
fivecups wrote:Ooops sorry JBG, didn't see your post. Meant to say I 'loved' the silver/gray away strip, I'm just jealous because I never had one.
At the time the 1989/90 home and away strip were seen as being "revolutionary" and were a major departue from previous strips. I think we were the first major club to go to a "fashionable" kit, and I remember, after seeing Glenn Hysen in one, I simply had to have one. My parents got it for me for Christmas, and when I went back to school after the Christmas holidays. The only thing was, I was so proud of it that I was terrified of getting it dirty and for the first game or two I played in it, I refused to do any sliding tackles!
Looking back on it it was naff (although it really fitted into the Harry Enfield "Scousers" in shell suits at the time) but at the time, it was the coolest thing going.
Sure beat the short shorts they wore in 1985/86!
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Mon Nov 29, 2004 10:25 pmby Leonmc0708
Think of the silver kit and you think of good old Glenn, happy memories....
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Mon Nov 29, 2004 10:28 pmby who the hell is diarra
John Barnes' Granny wrote:At the time the 1989/90 home and away strip were seen as being "revolutionary"
Coinciding with a time where not too long after Souness (should that be Sourness now ) Revolutionised Liverpool into a big bag o' sh*te
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Mon Nov 29, 2004 10:35 pmby JBG
Leonmc0708 wrote:Think of the silver kit and you think of good old Glenn, happy memories....
Do you remember Glenn Hysen's famous and trademark diving header clearnaces?
A long ball would come down the Liverpool end, the opposition forward would chase after it, only for Hysen to sprint and DIVE at the ball, clearing his lines in a situation he had no god given right to do.
I loved Hysen, even though he was only here a while, and it was a pity he fell out with Souness.
He was no Hansen (but Hansen was no Hysen) but hard as nails, Hysen was. Whats more, Ferguson tried to break the bank to get Hysen to Old Trafford, but he came to us as he claimed we were the bigger club. Happy days. 
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Mon Nov 29, 2004 10:43 pmby fivecups
He scored when we beat Palace 9-0. Nine freakin nil. We were just scoring for fun.