Liverpool in the 1980s

Liverpool in the 1980s
Author: Dave Sinclair
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Total Pages: 110
Release: 2014-10-15
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 1445638320

A fascinating selection of images, giving a unique perspective on the people and streets of Liverpool in the 1980s.

Red Machine

Red Machine
Author: Simon Hughes
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2013-10-10
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1780578180

During the 1980s, Liverpool Football Club dominated English football, winning six league titles, two European Cups, two FA Cups and four League Cups. In Red Machine, Simon Hughes interviews some of the most colourful characters to have played for the club during that period. The resulting interviews, set against the historical backdrop of both the club and the city, provide a vivid portrait of life at Liverpool during an era when the club’s unparalleled on-pitch success often went hand in hand with a boozy social scene fraught with rows, fights and wind-ups. The players featured here include John Barnes, Bruce Grobbelaar, Howard Gayle, Michael Robinson, John Wark, Kevin Sheedy, Nigel Spackman, Steve Staunton, David Hodgson and Craig Johnston, as well as first-team coach Ronnie Moran. Their candid, ribald and sometimes scathing recollections provide an antidote to the media-coached, on-message interviews given by today’s players and combine to offer a unique insight to this exciting time in the club’s history.

The Liverpool F.C. In The 1980s Quiz Book

The Liverpool F.C. In The 1980s Quiz Book
Author: Frank Rogers
Publisher: BookRix
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2022-02-11
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 3755407582

Liverpool had a wonderful team in the 1980s. They had iconic managers and there were many great players in the Liverpool teams. Liverpool dominated the English domestic game and were successful in European competitions too. In this book Liverpool fans can test their knowledge of this memorable decade. There is a variety of questions on different topics: on players, managers, competitions and other aspects of Liverpool Football Club in the eighties. Find out how much you know about Liverpool Football Club’s golden decade of the 1980s with this quiz book.

Red Machine

Red Machine
Author: Simon Hughes
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Soccer players
ISBN: 9781780576596

A stellar selection of former Liverpool players including John Barnes, Nigel Spackman, and Ronnie Moran candidly recollect their memories of the club's eventful 1980s era During the 1980s, Liverpool Football Club dominated English soccer, winning seven league titles, two European Cups, two FA Cups, and four League Cups. Here, Simon Hughes interviews some of the most colorful characters to have played for the club during that period. The resulting interviews, set against the historical backdrop of both the club and the city, provide a vivid portrait of life at Liverpool during an era when the club's unparalleled on-pitch success often went hand in hand with a boozy social scene fraught with rows, fights, and wind-ups. Former Liverpool players John Barnes, Bruce Grobbelaar, Howard Gayle, Michael Robinson, John Wark, Kevin Sheedy, Nigel Spackman, Steve Staunton, David Hodgson, and Craig Johnston, as well as first-team coach Ronnie Moran, all candidly recollect their memories of this exciting time in Liverpool Football Club's history.

Red Machine

Red Machine
Author: Simon Hughes
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781780576916

During the 1980s, Liverpool Football Club dominated English soccer, winning six league titles, two European Cups, two FA Cups, and four League Cups. In Red Machine, Simon Hughes interviews some of the most colorful characters to have played for the club during that period. The resulting interviews, set against the historical backdrop of both the club and the city, provide a vivid portrait of life at Liverpool during an era when the club's unparalleled on-pitch success often went hand in hand with a boozy social scene fraught with rows, fights, and wind-ups. The players featured here include John Barnes, Bruce Grobbelaar, Howard Gayle, Michael Robinson, John Wark, Kevin Sheedy, Nigel Spackman, Steve Staunton, David Hodgson, and Craig Johnston, as well as first-team coach Ronnie Moran. Their candid, ribald, and sometimes scathing recollections provide an antidote to the media-coached, on-message interviews given by today's players, and combine to offer a unique insight to this exciting time in the club's history.

Liverpool in the 80's: A Backpass Through the 1980's

Liverpool in the 80's: A Backpass Through the 1980's
Author: Michael O'Neill
Publisher:
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2022-01-04
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9781912918812

This book provides an insight into Liverpool FC during the 1980s, one of the most successful periods for one the most famous football clubs in the world. Liverpool Football Club was the team that dominated English and European Football throughout the 1980's. The book charts the highlights of being European, League, FA and League Cup Winners through to the devastation of the Heysel and Hillsborough disasters. With additional career player retrospectives, a special focus on Bob Paisley, Joe Fagan and Kenny Dalglish the managers who guided the club and in depth statistical information. Liverpool in the 80's looks at some of those magic moments with a unique collection of rare photographs of the games, the players, the teams and the managers.

Whatever happened to Tory Liverpool?

Whatever happened to Tory Liverpool?
Author: David Jeffery
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2023-04-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1837646562

An Open Access edition of this book, supported by the LUP OA author fund, is available on the Liverpool University Press website, the OAPEN library and our Digital Collaboration Hub. In the 1968 local elections the Liverpool Conservatives won 62 percent of the vote and 78 percent of the seats on Liverpool City Council. By 1972 the party had held a majority on Liverpool’s municipal government for 85 of the previous 100 years. But in 1983 they lost their last two MPs, and in 1998 they lost their final councillor. The Conservatives have not won an electoral contest in the city since. Whatever happened to Tory Liverpool? Success, decline, and irrelevance since 1945 explores the history of Conservative electoral performance in Liverpool from the end of the Second World War to the present day, and challenges a number of myths regarding the city’s political history: Conservative post-war success was not due to sectarian tensions or false consciousness, and neither was Conservative decline due to Margaret Thatcher. The book takes a multi-method approach to the study of Conservative Party history in Liverpool. It proposes a tripartite framework, which separates the periods of success (1945–1972), decline (1973–1986), and irrelevance (1987 onwards), and argues that each period should be explained by recourse to different phenomena. Only in this way can the complex post-war history of the Conservative Party in Liverpool truly be understood.

Liverpool

Liverpool
Author: Joseph Sharples
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780300102581

Guidebook to significant and interesting architectural sites in Liverpool.

There She Goes

There She Goes
Author: Simon Hughes
Publisher: deCoubertin Books
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2019-09-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 1909245917

Liverpool was once one of the greatest cities in the British empire but it no longer feels like it is in England, if it ever did. It had retreated as a significant port after the Second World War and by 1979, it was already on the brink. What it needed was support but instead, a Conservative Party with aggressive new ideas allowed it to slide. Thirty-years after the Toxteth Riots, classified government papers revealed that the prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, was urged to abandon the city and embark on a programme of 'managed decline'. Why did Liverpool's fortunes change so dramatically? Why did it fight back when other cities did not? This is the untold story of what it was like for Liverpool's people and how the period defines who they are.

Inside Bob Paisley's Liverpool

Inside Bob Paisley's Liverpool
Author: John Williams
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2012-10-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1780577168

Many years have now passed since the greatest period of European dominance by any English football club came to an end. Between 1977 and 1984, Liverpool won the European Cup an unprecedented four times and established themselves as the number-one team in Europe. It was during the successful European Cup campaigns of 1981 and 1984 that the unlikely figure of Alan Kennedy came to dominate the headlines. Folk-hero left-back Alan Kennedy - nicknamed 'Barney Rubble' by fans after The Flintstones character due to his straightforward, no-frills approach to the game - scored the winning goal in the 1981 European Cup final against Real Madrid, as well as the nerve-twanging winning shoot-out penalty against AS Roma in 1984, a feat which secured his position in European football history. Kennedy's Way examines Kennedy's footballing career under manager Bob Paisley (and, later, under Joe Fagan) and provides a retrospective account of Liverpool's dominance during those years. Drawing on Kennedy's memories of the period, as well as those of other players and backroom staff involved with the Reds at that time, it is an irreverent, revealing account of the dressing-room culture at the club while it was at the height of its powers. The book concludes with reflections on Kennedy's post-playing life and on the trajectory of Liverpool since the Heysel and Hillsborough tragedies, in 1985 and 1989 respectively, right up to recent events at the club, including the exit of Gérard Houllier and the team's dramatic return to the pinnacle of European club football under new manager Rafael Benítez.