LIVERPOOL 2 QPR 1 #retro #liverpool #liverpoolfc #lfc #qpr

From the title of this article alone you will already be aware of the score in this particular game but first we need to propel ourselves forward, 7 months in fact, to 17th October 1987 when Queens Park Rangers (QPR) visited Anfield as the leaders of the then simply titled “First Division”. It was a footballing cliché to rule them all, a “Top of The Table Clash” but whereas with the game under discussion and the Reds narrow 2–1 win on a cold March night, 7 months later Kenny Dalglish’s team of record breakers and the utter joy that was the Barnes/Beardsley/Aldridge/Houghton team of late 1987 onward destroyed QPR 4–0 on a crisp and sunny October afternoon and very much the calm after the storm. As will long live in infamy, the BBC “Weatherman” of the day Michael Fish laughed off suggestions that the UK was going to be hit by the hurricane that did indeed rip through the southern counties of the UK on 16th October 1987, leaving destruction and infrastructure problems in it’s gale force wake. As memory serves the hurricane mainly affected the southern most counties only so there was no disruption as far north as Liverpool and as bad luck would have it, that very city was my destination for the second time in a fortnight and what should have been my second visit to the hallowed grounds of Anfield in my entire 15 years of earthly life.

Then a hurricane landed, a hurricane that was actually laughed and scoffed at on live national television, my boyhood plans were scuppered, and I missed the incredible 4–0 demolition of QPR that would springboard this amazing, progressive, attacking and thrilling team to equalling the record of Brian Clough’s Nottingham Forest and going 29 matches unbeaten in the league and wrapping up the Championship at a canter. The less said about the FA Cup Final with Wimbledon that season the better, so we’ll just skip over that crazy gang piece of injustice, whistle a happy tune and fondly remember John Barnes’ utter brilliance on the wing, Peter Beardsley making me fall instantly in love with him and John Aldridge’s incredible goal return instead!

The above two opening paragraphs are taken from my original retrospective series of writings on Liverpool FC penned and published on 12th February 2022 to my Medium blog site and can be read in full and for free (please also consider subscribing for free!) via my Substack blog site linked immediately below:

https://ramblingmusings666.substack.com/p/liverpool-2-qpr-1-656a6333b847

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