The Blizzard: Liverpool 0-2 Arsenal, 1989
Football Ramble
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🗓️ 9 November 2019
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
For anyone who thinks the 2012 Aguero goal was the most startling finish to a top flight season, you’ve not looked back at the final day of the 1988/89 First Division. That’s where we are heading on today’s episode of Greatest Games, in association with The Blizzard.
We’re joined by Amy Lawrence, journalist for The Athletic and author of 89: Arsenal’s Greatest Moment, Told in Our Own Words. She’s the perfect person to talk us through Liverpool 0-2 Arsenal, the title decider that came after every other English professional side had already finished their season. We discuss the game’s connection to the Hillsborough disaster just six weeks before, and the feeling of dread around the Arsenal camp leading up to a clash with their title rivals. Listen on for the story of one of the most dramatic matches in the history of the game in this country.
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| 0:00.0 | It becomes the sad duty tonight for those of us normally concerned with the lighter side of television reporting to deal with a somber subject. |
| 0:08.0 | First of all, of course, our sympathies go to the families of those concerned. |
| 0:12.0 | But what exactly happened and vitally important? Why? |
| 0:16.0 | Whenever I think of that game and that time, those two events are so entwined. |
| 0:23.0 | I'll get goes to Lee Dixon, Long Wall from Lee Dixon. Smith will hold it up. |
| 0:28.0 | Place it spread, a Thomas! A Thomas is going inside Dixon! |
| 0:31.0 | And Thomas is there! And Thomas is scored! What are you doing? |
| 0:34.0 | It was a very, very, very unusual and very emotional set of circumstances. |
| 0:40.0 | Not just because of what happened on night, but also because of their bills for disaster. |
| 0:44.0 | Thomas was there, he held off two challenges, kept his head by my watch. |
| 0:50.0 | We are a minute and a half in due injury time. And Michael Thomas may have won the championship for Arsenal. |
| 0:57.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to Greatest Games on Football Rambled Daily in association with the Blizzard. |
| 1:03.0 | Joining myself and Jonathan Wilson today is Amy Lawrence, Football writer for the Athletic and author of a number of books including The Vengee Revolution, 20 Years of Arsenal. |
| 1:11.0 | And most recently, 89, Arsenal's greatest moment, told in our words. |
| 1:16.0 | Today, we're going all the way back to the 26th of May, 1989, the last day of the old Division I. |
| 1:23.0 | Arsenal beat Liverpool 2-0 at Anfield to clinch the title. Amy, it's an obvious one. But why have you chosen this game? |
| 1:33.0 | I'm a big believer that when certain things happen at a certain point in your life, they have an extra resonance. |
| 1:39.0 | And they impact on you in an extra way. And the circumstances of not just that night, but that moment in time, that season. |
| 1:50.0 | I was 17 years old, it was my last year of school. It was actually my last day of school on the 26th of May, 1989. |
| 1:58.0 | So I did bunk off naturally to make sure that I got myself to Anfield. |
| 2:04.0 | And I do have this, when I look back at my 17-year-old self, obviously you're at that age where you kind of think you know it all, |
| 2:12.0 | but you're still exploring the world and you're such a sort of sponge for new experiences and formulating the kind of person you are, |
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