Liverpool v Chelsea 21st April 1990

A week later, I'm back in Liverpool for my second game, this week's opponents were Chelsea, who were just a shadow of the club they are now, no oil billionaire in sight, just an average division one team.

They had the likes of Kerry Dixon, Steve Clarke and Tony Dorigo.

On arriving at Anfield, as the previous week, we got a taxi to Lime Street Station and walked to White Star pub in the station, this week we arrived back at the ground in time for kick off, Liverpool took the lead after a lot of one way traffic through Ronny Rosenthal again on 25 minutes, Steve Nicol, what a player he was, got the second after 36 minutes and he also got the third after 80 minutes, some goalscorer for a defender, Ian Rush made it 4-0 on 82 minutes, then late on Kerry Dixon got a consolation, another Liverpool win, and another step closer to the title.

Next week we play QPR, the title could be coming back to Liverpool.

Final Score: Liverpool 4 Chelsea 1

How it all started with Liverpool

My first memory of watching Liverpool, was in 1977, I was just 7 years old, Liverpool had just won the championship, and were playing Man Utd in the F.A.cup final, which we went on to lose 2-1.

Four days later, we became Champions of Europe for the first time.

Fast forward to 1990, many years and many trophies later, I make my first trip to Anfield, 14th April 1990, Liverpool v Nottingham Forest, the day before the first anniversary of Hillsborough.

As I then lived in Plymouth, the day started early, being picked up by the coach at 7am, which had started from Truro in Cornwall, we made our way up through the country picking other people up on the way.

We arrived in Liverpool at around 1pm, coming up Utting Avenue, I caught my first glimpse of Anfield, reaching the top of road by The Arkles pub, the coach turned around and pulled in just by the entrance to Stanley Park, here we finally got off, and made our way to the ground.

I was walking up Anfield Road for the first time ,we reached the Shankly Gates, and went in the souvenir shop to get a programme, after making our way passed the player's entrance we came out by The Albert pub, yes most of the landmarks around the ground are pubs.

The group I was with then hailed a cab and asked the driver for Lime Street station, yes we were going to a pub, the white star in the station which sold cheap beer.

As I mentioned it was the day before the first anniversary of Hillsborough, and playing Nottingham Forest, our opponents on that tragic day, but regretably we missed the minutes silence, and got to the ground just on kick-off.

Taking our places on the Kop, I got my first glimpses of the ground from the inside, have I made it clear enough it was first time?

For the first few minutes I just stood and listened to the shouting and the songs, but I soon joined in, and on 12 minutes Ronny Rosenthal scored at the Anfield Road end, I went berserk, probably a bit over the top, but I'd seen a goal.

Three minutes later Steve McMahon made it 2-0, which it stayed until half time. A good half, well, we were winning 2-0, but the second half it went a bit wrong, Steve Hodge then Nigel Jemson scored for Forest to earn them a 2-2 draw, it was time to go home.

The trip home wasn't too bad, seeing as I wasn't a seasoned traveller by any means, but finally got back to Plymouth about midnight, gto home and went straight to bed, still with the noise from the Kop ringing in my ears.

Looking forward to my next trip already, which was to be only a week away.

Thanks to LFC history a history of Liverpool FC,for refreshing my memory on certain things.

Final Score: Liverpool 2 Nottingham Forest 2