Michael Thomas wins league title for Arsenal at Anfield, 1989

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  • Michael Thomas scores in injury-time to give Arsenal the 2-0 win over Liverpool at Anfield they required on the last day of the league season, to win the title in 1989.

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  • @jasonjones5357
    @jasonjones5357 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2585

    I'm not an Arsenal fan but make no mistake, Man City winning on the final day may have seemed more dramatic due to Sky Sports, media, money and pundits, but on that day Utd were playing Sunderland and City playing QPR, not exactly top of the table stuff. This was incredible, the 2 top teams, Arsenal having a huge lead during the season and then having to do what was literally impossible at Anfield, don't let anyone tell you this this wasn't the biggest 2 minutes in the history of the league.

    • @lloyd_r
      @lloyd_r 8 ปีที่แล้ว +195

      Couldn't agree more, greatest finale ever. From a United fan

    • @seattlesfinest1927
      @seattlesfinest1927 8 ปีที่แล้ว +98

      Couldn't have summed it better son, well done!

    • @shakes.dontknowwhatyergettin
      @shakes.dontknowwhatyergettin 8 ปีที่แล้ว +222

      Indeed.
      City's goal was inevitable. Arsenal's was unthinkable.

    • @KaizerMan
      @KaizerMan 6 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      I’m a 16 year old Gooner and even though my dad supports United he’ll probably vouch for this goal even more than me. I was obviously never alive to experience this but just from hearing/watching it it’s clearly a classic moment, I envy that my dad got to experience it :P

    • @squirtlehvac8962
      @squirtlehvac8962 6 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      Jason Jones couldn’t have said any better. This was real soccer. Before Arab money

  • @jc16781
    @jc16781 9 ปีที่แล้ว +864

    I was 11 years old when Mickey Thomas stuck that in to win us the league.. My big brother lift me up and put me on his shoulders and ran around the living room.. Will never forget that memory.

    • @brandonwilson2732
      @brandonwilson2732 6 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      jc16781 thanks for sharing it with us. 👏🏻

    • @tiarnan76
      @tiarnan76 6 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      I was 12 watchin it live with my 2 mates who supported Liverpool.....my best memory of any football match ever

    • @KirksCORNER-1983
      @KirksCORNER-1983 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I was 7

    • @KirksCORNER-1983
      @KirksCORNER-1983 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I was 6

    • @joelrobinson1157
      @joelrobinson1157 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I wasn't born.

  • @vickykk7929
    @vickykk7929 8 ปีที่แล้ว +301

    every time I watch this I get worried sick Michael Thomas is not gonna score... best win ever!!!

    • @mikloslipcsey7923
      @mikloslipcsey7923 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      And for such a enjoyable comment, I’ll give you a 100th like.

    • @adamstoweett6803
      @adamstoweett6803 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      he hold the ball for too long there😭

    • @vordman
      @vordman ปีที่แล้ว +6

      It does look like the ball is going to get caught up under his feet for a second. But what nerve to put it away. Michael Thomas will always hold legendary status in the history of English football for this.

    • @billywindsock9597
      @billywindsock9597 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      One day, I think Grobelar will get a hand on it!

    • @peterjinks5857
      @peterjinks5857 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      He never does

  • @steveN111333
    @steveN111333 8 ปีที่แล้ว +392

    everytime I hear Brian Moore say "Thomas...CHARGING THROUGH THE MIDFIELD.. ! " My heart rate goes through the roof !!!

    • @keiraxen7878
      @keiraxen7878 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Best commentator ever.

    • @zaidabraham7310
      @zaidabraham7310 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@keiraxen7878 He didn't really do this moment justice though.

    • @keiraxen7878
      @keiraxen7878 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@zaidabraham7310 Maybe but his voice is utter class!Google 50 best UCL goals and watch number 5 goal by Lars Ricken and hear that commentary😍

    • @AH-be6bu
      @AH-be6bu 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@zaidabraham7310 only because we're used to commentators absolutely losing their shit over football drama. There was a time when said drama was allowed to speak for itself without the commentators making it all about them.

    • @zaidabraham7310
      @zaidabraham7310 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@AH-be6bu I've watched plenty of Liverpool matches from the 70's and 80's where the commentary is better than this.

  • @YCnBball21
    @YCnBball21 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1155

    So weird seeing the goalies pick up a pass back to them lol

    • @tikmik1789
      @tikmik1789 6 ปีที่แล้ว +154

      When teams were defending a lead they would pass back to keeper continuously for him to pick it up. Boring af

    • @TitanFind
      @TitanFind 6 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      I remember European Cup matches in particular were full of minutes on end when the team in the lead passed it around at the back then tapped it to the keeper who picked it up. Again. So dull.

    • @robicenco1701
      @robicenco1701 5 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      Watch a few videos of Liverpool games from the 1980s. You'll get used to it pretty quickly.

    • @miraclechijioke1213
      @miraclechijioke1213 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Lol. Things change right

    • @mcfcguvnors
      @mcfcguvnors 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      all you heard was hanson to grobbelar - grobbelar to hanson ..BORRRRING ,footys so much better since they took the liverpooling out of the equation

  • @DaveSpagnol
    @DaveSpagnol 5 ปีที่แล้ว +226

    As an Arsenal fan, one thing I will congratulate Liverpool on, was having the best, most sporting fans. It would have been easy for them to be spoiled by success, but they hung around and applauded.

    • @martinkulkarni3569
      @martinkulkarni3569 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Easy for you to say. You haven’t had to share a city with that scum. The only surprise in this game was that the ref didn’t award a penalty to the dark side after Arsenal scored their second!

    • @MickyJCurry
      @MickyJCurry ปีที่แล้ว

      Rubbish. I was there in the Anfield Rd end as a 13 year and witnessed Liverpool fans at their worst. Scum.

    • @stevesalkas9128
      @stevesalkas9128 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Not players sore losers like now nothing changed

    • @stevesalkas9128
      @stevesalkas9128 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Greenfields 12 as arsenal fan newcaslte and arsenal will be good next 5 years young sides. Newcastle is my 2nd team cause magpies Collingwood football club in australia being arsenal fan since 79 fa cup

    • @EBGamez1
      @EBGamez1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@stevesalkas9128 Richmond better :)

  • @ythinder
    @ythinder 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    What a great way to shut Liverpool fans up!!! This was truly a gift from god, the way the arrogant Liverpool players were shaking hands before the final whistle, McMahon with his "one minute" gesture, the Liverpool fans celebrating, Aldridge being a bad loser not shaking hands with O'Leary - it was simply glorious, and will never to be repeated!!!

  • @stevemcelmy9354
    @stevemcelmy9354 2 ปีที่แล้ว +76

    Not an arsenal fan but if anyone who thinks football was invented in 1992 tells you the aguero moment is even comparable to this, tell them they're an idiot. This had everything, the impossibility of the situation, the absurdity of 2 title challengers playing the last game, and the late great Brian Moore commentating.

    • @lukealvarez3744
      @lukealvarez3744 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The top 2 had same point and goal difference!😨

    • @Leogunner2
      @Leogunner2 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Unrivaled as the greatest finish to a league season

    • @brentinnes5151
      @brentinnes5151 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      100%.....completely different...City were big favourites to win...Ars away to Liv and win by 2 goals...thats 1,000 to 1..and in the last minute...hollywood coudnt make that up...truth is stranger than fiction

  • @dominicdavison8590
    @dominicdavison8590 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    Most dramatic climax to a season in global football history. Sensational.

    • @januariasg2837
      @januariasg2837 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Nah mate PSV back in 2006/2007

  • @UBZUKki
    @UBZUKki 9 ปีที่แล้ว +93

    Absolute moment of pure magic.....Not many gave Arsenal a chance in HELL to get the result at ANFIELD...And by two clear goals....Watched it on the tv at home on the night...nearly lost my Fuckin mind....

    • @cakestalker
      @cakestalker 8 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      +UBZUKKI I agree, and this was back in the day when Liverpool more or less was at their prime.

    • @UBZUKki
      @UBZUKki 8 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      +Ingen Ting I'll never forget that image of Liverpool players on their knees after the final whistle. They were shell shocked...utter disbelief at what happened on THEIR ground......Stunning result.

  • @davidmcconachie5718
    @davidmcconachie5718 8 ปีที่แล้ว +128

    “Aldridge is down, Barnes is down, Dalglish just stands there. Nicol’s on his knees, McMahon’s on his knees”

    • @tikmik1789
      @tikmik1789 6 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      Some of those Liverpool players refused to shake hands with arsenal after the game. Lil bitches

    • @dre8463
      @dre8463 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      No wonder Nicol's on ESPN hates our guts hahaha :-P

    • @tyleru96
      @tyleru96 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      And to this day, Nicol still hasn't gotten over it. He despises Arsenal with every fiber of his being and I love it. He'll be bitter about this result for the rest of his life.

    • @kwameaboagye7959
      @kwameaboagye7959 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Sour grapes. Arsenal had every right to win our first league title in 88/89

    • @KJ_2020
      @KJ_2020 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@tikmik1789 pathetic considering Arsenal players ran to all corners of Anfield before kickoff giving flowers to Liverpool fans in the wake of Hillsborough.

  • @Wilshy
    @Wilshy 9 ปีที่แล้ว +225

    There was no back pass rule in '89. And Liverpool were time wasting right until Arsenal got the ball back. God, Liverpool fans just can't accept that they were on the receiving end of an incredibly epic sport's moment. I don't know why people don't like the commentary, either. "It's up for grabs now! Thomas!" I'd like to see people do better in the spur of the moment. He probably couldn't believe that was happening.

    • @girlgooner5502
      @girlgooner5502 8 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      +John Wilson To be fair not the Liverpool fans in the stadium that fateful night they applauded us when everything calmed down.

    • @UBZUKki
      @UBZUKki 8 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      +girl gooner That was a class moment.

    • @Wolfington
      @Wolfington 6 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Liverpool time wasted for 20 odd years. Funny how the back pass rule is introduced and they win fuck all league titles after that.

    • @Wolfington
      @Wolfington 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Red Man Apart from the FIFA World Club Championship. And the Cup Winners Cup.

    • @Wolfington
      @Wolfington 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Red Man You was in the Cup Winners Cup the first season the back pass rule was introduced. Were you still in nappies back then??

  • @sovietblipvertscontrolyour611
    @sovietblipvertscontrolyour611 10 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    1988-89 probably the most memorable season in english football

    • @garethfieldstead7547
      @garethfieldstead7547 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That is up there as one of the strangest comments ever. Small matter of 97 football fans killed the previous month? Liverpool were not even going to finish the season. Players were considering retirement.

    • @drssexy2142
      @drssexy2142 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      how many retired exactly? @@garethfieldstead7547

    • @sirpagandetyptoft6793
      @sirpagandetyptoft6793 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Sorry mate but Arsenal bored the pants off fans including their own. Scraping wins by small margins including when I saw them at Boro win 1-0. all they had a was rock solid defence.

  • @IVIyWorld
    @IVIyWorld 10 ปีที่แล้ว +177

    The city last minute goal was intense but not near this intensity! the two contenders fighting each other liverpool chance to win a double! and Arsenal first league win in 18 years

    • @TitanFind
      @TitanFind 9 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      IVIyWorld I dunno, they're pretty close. City hadn't won a title in 44 years, and were about to be edged by their hated rivals YET again. There was more on the line in 2012. But in this game it was the two actual contenders playing against each other in the final match. So swings and roundabouts.

    • @clivenewman3715
      @clivenewman3715 9 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      TitanFind You say there was more on the line in 2012 - I disagree. Arsenal hadn't won the title in 18 years and had been in charge of the first division for the first half of the season, Liverpool were flying and had given everything for their fans after the horror of Hillsborough. When Liverpool stuffed West Ham 5-1 to make Arsenal need the 2 goals, they hadn't been beaten by two clear goals all season. If Barnes had just run to the corner flag in the 91st minute the result was different. Listen to the comments from Pleat - he didn't even consider the 2nd goal a possibility at this point. Two titans battling head to head with the underdog coming through with seconds to go.
      The single greatest night of my life :)

    • @TitanFind
      @TitanFind 9 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Clive Newman Man City hadn't won the title in 44 years and had been in charge of the Premiership for most of the season before losing the lead but THEN hauling it back to be in pole position. It was City's title to lose on the final day, and the pressure was immense. Just look at the frustration on the faces of the fans as they're losing at the 90 minute mark. Man Utd are going to rub this in their faces - all they have to do is win a single home game against QPR, and they fuck it up! - and it will take them a generation to recover from the feeling of bereft humiliation.
      I am confident that the ecstasy of the City fans in 2012 eclipses even that of the Arsenal fans in 1989.

    • @TitanFind
      @TitanFind 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      arsenal0782 I wasn't too young, no.
      Arsenal fan by any chance? :)

    • @dibz06
      @dibz06 9 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      arsenal0782 I think this other chap is trying to wind you up, probably best to ignore him! What a moment though

  • @lndnflms484
    @lndnflms484 9 ปีที่แล้ว +74

    A great moment for all neutral fans watching. No one really believed Arsenal could do it, and more to the point, no one believed Liverpool would let them.

    • @elgonm289
      @elgonm289 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I believed it and won money, betting with spurs fan who was a mate of mine

  • @edmondscott7444
    @edmondscott7444 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    ITV sport, and Brian Moore and Brian Clough finest hour. Great performance by Arsenal against the odds.

    • @bjsmith5444
      @bjsmith5444 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

      It's not Clough. It's David Pleat.

  • @cheyeser
    @cheyeser 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Something that often goes unnoticed was George Graham not celebrating in front of the Liverpool bench out of respect for the occasion and a gallant Liverpool side who had gone through an incredibly traumatic year (Hillsbrough) trying (and failing) to get his coaching staff and bench to do the same.

  • @Leogunner2
    @Leogunner2 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    What a night, what an atmosphere, what a finish. Gives me "goosebubbles" every time. If you know, you know.COYG

  • @rogerramjet5302
    @rogerramjet5302 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Put a big smile on my face again - Arteta needs to play this to the current team. This is the Arsenal boys now get out there and win.

    • @paulharper4196
      @paulharper4196 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Maybe he played it to them this season....

  • @markgbullen
    @markgbullen 10 ปีที่แล้ว +82

    25 years ago today, IT'S UP FOR GRABS NOW!!!!!!!!!!

    • @AJ-ep9is
      @AJ-ep9is 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      markgbullen Deary me 😂😂😂

    • @nishilbright2007
      @nishilbright2007 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Make that 31.. Still Gold. And as a Chelsea fan even, it gives you goosebumps. Epic moment

  • @tanyazhukova7186
    @tanyazhukova7186 6 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Fever Pitch brought me here.

    • @pabloeransusantonanzas2868
      @pabloeransusantonanzas2868 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Mee too. 4 o'clock am, cannot sleep. So reading this very special episode of arsenal history on the bed. It was so perfectly narrated that I had to watch the goal. And oof course I had to listen to the commentators as well, so I have got out the bedroom to watch-listen to it (I did three times) what a dramatic moment. I am Spanish, I lived in Spain and I was 11 at that moment. I was unaware of this moment and today, 30 years later, fever pitch has brought to me this epic moment.

    • @relaxrelaxed4235
      @relaxrelaxed4235 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Me 2 .

    • @Bucci86Marco
      @Bucci86Marco 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I'm AS Roma fan, i watched this for first time in 2001, one week after the defeat with the hateful liverpool. You can Image how i was feeling 😁 from this Arsenal is my first fav English team (in the last years Newcastle United and Leicester City, too), Come on you Gunners and Forza Roma!

    • @johnrockyryan
      @johnrockyryan 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@Bucci86Marco thanks bro i love Roma i like to think of Arsenal as the British AS Roma

  • @JezmondoMisterfull
    @JezmondoMisterfull 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    And it was live on Terrestrial TV too! I'm in that throng of Arsenal fans somewhere, 18! A bit older now and nothing has come close to that feeling, on that day at Anfield. A truly unforgettable experience, and what's more, travelling in the coaches leaving Highbury, the fire in the team that day, and the fans, was Awesome. We knew we could do it. And we did! I've seen the film, have the recording of the match on DVD, but thanks for posting this! If it's in our hands at the end of next season, we'll do it then too. But it won't be as awesome as this.

  • @PC-hj4wg
    @PC-hj4wg 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    This was the beginning of the end for Liverpool - we didn't know it at the time, but it was the turning point in our tragic history since then. Overtaken by Manchester - United and now City.

    • @wleon4068
      @wleon4068 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      We were absolutely shattered. Both physically and mentally. Remember, the Hillsborough tragedy was in the same season. That would have taken a massive toll on our players then. We just ran out of steam, and Arsenal deserved to win the title that season.

    • @johnrockyryan
      @johnrockyryan 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      But yall won the league again the season after... or do you mean an end to your reign of terror cause if so then yeah

  • @TOSILENCE77
    @TOSILENCE77 10 ปีที่แล้ว +203

    Arsenal fans in the away end at Anfield were a totally different breed to the new yuppies that have taken over the Emirates.

    • @HawkEyeRS
      @HawkEyeRS 10 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      Look at away games, they are almost always louder then home support.

    • @TOSILENCE77
      @TOSILENCE77 10 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Royal Arsenal Yeah but it's static. The the late 80s and 90s, people used to go mental when a goal was scored and it was wild. Home and away, big game or small game. Today when a goal goes in, they get their ipads out! It's the stand up and clap brigade. In the Anfield 89 era the passion was raw. Football today is sanitised garbage.

    • @chinary8
      @chinary8 10 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      It's like that in all sports now. I'm coming from Canada and, when I was a kid, NHL games were electric. Now it's just a big corporate wank. I don't go, let alone drop $100 for a shitty seat. I had free tickets last year and went and, though the game is arguably better than it used to be, half the "fans" are there for work fucking around on their phones. You just sit there praying an errant puck hits one. The MLS is actually becoming the best league to watch even though it's a minor league by soccer standards. But the fans are true blue , loud and a lot of fun. It seems to be where people who actually enjoy a game spend their bucks now. Even on TV you can hear it's far louder than the local NHL team.

    • @kashykorner2
      @kashykorner2 10 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      TOSILENCE77 spot on mate.

    • @LionSaultV2
      @LionSaultV2 10 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      Working class been priced out, Middle class priced in

  • @ThatGuyNorm
    @ThatGuyNorm 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    13 years old watching my team win the title for the first time in my life was so emotional. Especially when we beat Liverpool at Anfield to do it. ❤

  • @tomryan4556
    @tomryan4556 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    "It's up for grabs now!" What a line..

  • @petef7323
    @petef7323 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Doesn't get any closer than this!
    The final goal needed in the near final minute of the final league match of the season, between the only two teams that were directly fighting for the title race.
    This will probably never happen again. 👏👏👏

    • @william_SMMA
      @william_SMMA ปีที่แล้ว

      It's football, it definitely will

  • @kovictim
    @kovictim 10 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Still gives me goosebumps, all these years later.

  • @Sirius1914
    @Sirius1914 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    And 30+ years later, Arsenal and Liverpool produce another classic match. Saka so close to recreating that Michael Thomas goal and Liverpool denied by two world class Ramsdale saves.

    • @benstonks9047
      @benstonks9047 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Imagine if Saka got to that ball before Allison did... History would've probably repeated itself.

    • @deathdragonslayer1
      @deathdragonslayer1 ปีที่แล้ว

      If only martinelli could pass like smithy 😢

    • @Sirius1914
      @Sirius1914 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@deathdragonslayer1 Lads will pick themselves up and move onto West Ham. We gotta win.

  • @senianns9522
    @senianns9522 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Was in a restaurant in Phuket watching this--the locals wanted Liverpool! Greatest night for me!

  • @threedoubles4827
    @threedoubles4827 8 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    27th anniversary, hard to believe. Footballs greatest ever moment.

    • @ridingkangastoschool1358
      @ridingkangastoschool1358 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      threedoubles not exactly, probably 05 CL final

    • @markballerina4277
      @markballerina4277 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Leicester winning the league

    • @NoCluYT
      @NoCluYT 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      - 6-1 "la remontada"
      - Man city "aguerooooooo"
      Still close anyway

    • @wvvw4036
      @wvvw4036 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      GOAT Aguero's goal was by no means better than this, and Barca's 6-1 was marred by allegations of corruption

    • @djstarscream
      @djstarscream 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Absolutely eclipsed by aguero. When you think of Man City you think of that goal, when you think of arsenal you think of fantv 😂

  • @nelvaldo.4850
    @nelvaldo.4850 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Leeds fan here . That was why the beautiful game is so special.
    Incredible game !

  • @Tomgood1984
    @Tomgood1984 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Not one Liverpool fan left the stadium when we lifted the trophy! After Hillsborough and there pain to endure that was hard on them so I hope this Sunday they get to put it right. Massive RESPECT from an Arsenal fan.

  • @glenjarnold
    @glenjarnold 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    We were watching it at work on evening shift, the crew room absolutely erupted!

  • @daveagnew2367
    @daveagnew2367 10 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I remember watching this on my friends family's little black & white portable TV. Even after all these years I can still remember when this goal went in - the most dramatic end to a season I have ever seen.
    Sadly, that was the last memory I have of my mate, as he went off to university weeks later and he stayed on in that area after graduating.

  • @jamesbishop1161
    @jamesbishop1161 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    30 years ago and it’s still the most dramatic end to a league season ever!!

  • @nikreece6295
    @nikreece6295 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    l rememeber this game so well on lTV's the match in late may 1989
    ....As a Liverpool fan..when l look back on this now?.....I think both the tragic events at Hillsborough and this night in 1988/89 in this season is what knocked us off our perch...Even though we won the league back the following season...We've sadly have never been the same since...

    • @stevesalkas9128
      @stevesalkas9128 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Agree

    • @adebolabloke6962
      @adebolabloke6962 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I agree but please explain

    • @nikreece6295
      @nikreece6295 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@adebolabloke6962 Well mentally....the invinisbilty that liverpool had always had throughout the 1980s had been damaged after the 1988-89 season....but now?... klopp has put us back on top

  • @stephenclough6893
    @stephenclough6893 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I’m a Liverpool fan, was about 14 years old watching this at home possibly shell shocked but without doubt the most dramatic ending to a game ever with the most iconic commentary probably after “they think it’s all over..” The whole nation watching, the most emotional season, a brilliant LFC team and a great Arsenal kit to be fair! Man City Aguero miles behind this

  • @beakaHD
    @beakaHD 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I'm a Spurs fan. But this was pretty amazing. Having to not only beat Liverpool at Anfield but have to do it by 2 goals. Being shown on free tv with the whole nation watching.

  • @ceannasai5731
    @ceannasai5731 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    John Aldridge showing his class at the end to his Irish International team mate 😀✌

  • @ronaldcharlemagne7149
    @ronaldcharlemagne7149 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    There is something about this moment that makes me watch it over again and again. The pure rawness of emotions on both sides given the stakes this game had was so intense. Classic!

  • @Mediumal
    @Mediumal 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Arguably, it was the greatest and most dramatic top-flight Title win ever. Any Arsenal fan at the match that night must have been in seventh heaven as that second goal went in. Such a drama was positively Homeric. This game was certainly one of the most memorable and significant spectacles in football to be played out in modern times, possibly only equalled by Liverpool's similarly epic comeback in the Istanbul CL Cup Final some years later. It's because of games like this, that makes football what it is - the most compelling of sports, where one can go from complete despair to sheer jubilation and vice-versa in the space of 90 minutes.

  • @gregconway736
    @gregconway736 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Most dramatic and memorable finish ever to an English league season. Everyone went crazy bar Liverpool and Spurs fans.

  • @mrsmith3930
    @mrsmith3930 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I still feel the emotion from that game fantastic effort by everyone at the club. This is why they are all legends, memories for life. God speed Rocky!

  • @Fujiwara.Takumi1
    @Fujiwara.Takumi1 10 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    Gooners know this is the best line ever

  • @agnieszkamikoajek5729
    @agnieszkamikoajek5729 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Look at the CLASS of George Graham. Respectful for LFC, having in fresh memory what happened to their club and fans at Hilsborough, not only refused to celebrate at ther ground himself, but also calming down his staff members just to avoid anything bad that could happen to each sides fans.

  • @davidhurst100
    @davidhurst100 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I remember watching this live on TV with a plastic Liverpool fan (the rest of us were Wolves fans). About 10 seconds before Thomas scored, I said, 'oh well, Liverpool deserve it I suppose (glum faced). Then 'that' happened! I remember seeing Thomas celebrating his goal and he was flipping around like a salmon on a hot deck not knowing how to celebrate enough to merit the enormity of his achievement - still makes me smile.

  • @kurtfruth2148
    @kurtfruth2148 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Before there was Sergio Aguerro, there was Michael Thomas.

  • @jamesnastri2364
    @jamesnastri2364 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    We’ve gone and won the league at Anfield, old Trafford and that dump in N17 twice all our biggest rivals who else has done that

  • @martinhester8009
    @martinhester8009 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    27 years later I still get goose bumps seeing it

  • @richardcummins5465
    @richardcummins5465 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Was working night shift at a sewage treatment plant on this night. Small transistor radio glued to my ear. When Arsenal scored Jonathan Pearce went ballistic on London Capitol Gold. So did i. Could have heard me all over Croydon. And im not a Gunners fan! Absolutely magical.

  • @raindancerave8521
    @raindancerave8521 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I was there In the arsenal end in the seats was 16 and all I remember is MT scoring and me and my pals going flying over 2 rows of seats what an unbelievable night 🥳🥳🥳

  • @ZeldaFitz
    @ZeldaFitz ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It took the PL 23 years to have their very own Anfield 89 moment. Yes the Man City game was great, but it wasn’t anywhere near as dramatic as this game. You had to have been around at that time to realise how special that moment was.

  • @lewdogzombies
    @lewdogzombies 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Mickey Thomas scoring this one goal made him an Arsenal legend forever. Absolute hero at the right place and time

  • @dannywlm63
    @dannywlm63 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Superb night. I still get goosebumps, and can remember

  • @RFED2O
    @RFED2O 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The greatest finish in the history of football 💯

  • @BeOutstanding
    @BeOutstanding 10 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    Backpass to the GK and GK picking up the ball was allowed back then.

    • @Billyfozz
      @Billyfozz 10 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      And liverpool have not won the league since the new rule came in. lol

    • @Kevon420
      @Kevon420 9 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      And that's how Arsenal won the league! Oh the drama.

    • @mcfcguvnors
      @mcfcguvnors 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      was boring as fuck thats all they did - get a goal hansen to Grobbelar - back to hansen & guess what bruce has the ball again ....now hes wearing a hat .....riveting viewing :P

  • @ZaaRaphz
    @ZaaRaphz ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Here because of aftv invincibles podcast, big up Robbie & Lee Judges

  • @videocrafterd2637
    @videocrafterd2637 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Liverpool didn’t lose at home that hole season Liverpool were first and arsenal were second they had the same amount of points but arsenal has one less goal difference meaning they would have to score 2 goals up from Liverpool
    In the first half of the match nothing happened and everyone was shocked because (Liverpool one every home game that season) but in the second half arsenal successfully scored a goal everyone was screaming in which if the match ended like that Liverpool would of one because arsenal were away so they talking as thin as margins. Anyway the match went on there was 1 minute left the ball went to arsenals keeper he kicked it up the pitch to the left winger he passed to Michael Thomas he dribbled through three defensive players kicked it and it chipped over the keeper and went in the goal everyone was screaming they were all celebrating together and as an arsenal fan I still remember the adrenaline it gave me and I still sometimes get goosebumps but to this day Michael Thomas is still a legend and always will be

  • @anglowarrior3871
    @anglowarrior3871 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I'm not an Arsenal fan but this is the greatest ever English top flight finish.Look at all the ingredients,I can't see this ever being equalled.

  • @rncfc
    @rncfc 8 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Just a shame there weren't more shots of the Arsenal fans celebrating the goal. Those were the days, crammed in on the terrace; not likes today's plastic shite.

  • @bigbadbill0071
    @bigbadbill0071 8 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    greatest moment in sport bar none. imn a evertononian by the way

    • @davidcooke1972
      @davidcooke1972 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      As an Evertonian I didn't feel anything one way or the other. I stopped acknowledging them as human beings after Heysel.

  • @LionSaultV2
    @LionSaultV2 10 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    100 Times better than that overhyped sky sports City goal

    • @djembadjemba5038
      @djembadjemba5038 10 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      I hate City with a passion, but overhyped? Piss off

    • @RonaldNixiux
      @RonaldNixiux 9 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Overhyped? lol

    • @traviswilliams4548
      @traviswilliams4548 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      100x better for an Arsenal fan sure, but still a great ending.

    • @sejason56
      @sejason56 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      To be fair City were down 2-1 into the 90th minute so it was a near impossible success... though QPR did make it somewhat easier as they knew they were safe and allowed City to constantly throw pressure into the box.
      '89 still better, 1st vs 2nd defined by essentially the last kick of the game... Liverpool was no QPR especially at Anfield in the 80s, no chance anyone saw Arsenal score so late, at Loftus Road there was always a sense that City would score again once it was 2-2.

    • @tomben6180
      @tomben6180 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@sejason56Being objective, as a City fan, there are pros and cons to both.
      Yes City were only playing QPR, I disagree about what you said about them allowing it, there was a last ditch tackle to try and stop Aguero and I can’t remember who but a QPR player said most of them didn’t know they were safe, as the bench had only just started celebrating 20 seconds earlier, but as you say, it was 2 goals needed in injury time to win it.
      I also think the fact we were up against United for the league, the club who are our most hated rivals and had ridiculed us for decades, just made it more special.
      Arsenal playing the team who started the day in 1st and winning by 2 clear goals is a better achievement on the day, but I just think City’s meant more to City fans because of the context of going 44 years without a league and it being against United for the title.
      I am biased though.

  • @hazardous1990
    @hazardous1990 10 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Thomas, it's up for grabs now! Thomas!

  • @scatmann5839
    @scatmann5839 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is one of those times I'm so glad to have been alive then and old enough to have witnessed this incredible moment and experienced all the emotions that went with it. Gooner till I die ❤

  • @Trecesolotienesdos
    @Trecesolotienesdos 8 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    "Thomas, it's grab for grabs now! Thomas! Right at the end!!"

  • @safisyed736
    @safisyed736 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This one game will Never be Earased from my mind. Kept replaying it till today and will do forever. Every special moments.

  • @Mjwara
    @Mjwara 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    1:06
    One of the most iconic victory calls of all time!

  • @johnjames2205
    @johnjames2205 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    simply put, this was the greatest moment ever in football history. Arsenal was 14/1 to beat Liverpool by 2-0 to win the title in 1989

  • @oberonstringweed3344
    @oberonstringweed3344 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Just imagine being in that away end...

  • @danohagan6022
    @danohagan6022 7 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    i don't support either team, but watching this still gives me goosebumps, and reminds me of my youth. English football is nowhere near this quality anymore.

    • @william_SMMA
      @william_SMMA ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Your last statement is based off nothing other than sentiment

    • @danohagan6022
      @danohagan6022 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@william_SMMA yeah cheers princess 🙄

    • @PatoNani18
      @PatoNani18 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@danohagan6022bruh English football became more than twice as good twenty years later. Wtf are you even talking about?😂

  • @MightyRoos
    @MightyRoos 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    At the end of the day it was a shocking decision by Barnes. In what world would you try to take on the defender when all you need to do is to keep the score as it is? All Barnes needed to do was to take the ball the corner post and use up time. There was no need to get a goal.

    • @aussieboy77
      @aussieboy77 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      That was the Liverpool philosophy back then - attack and score goals no matter what the score is. I respect Barnes for not taking it to the corner. Running down the clock by taking it to the corner is not football and should be banned.

    • @simonwright5680
      @simonwright5680 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@aussieboy77 Liverpool spent the entire match wasting time. Barnes just had a brain fade. He knows he screwed up

  • @ihateyoumother-fucker3204
    @ihateyoumother-fucker3204 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    "Aldridge is down, Barnes is down........" 😂😂😂😂😂 fucking love it. great days

  • @twarog6825
    @twarog6825 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    In 55yrs I have never ever experienced the feelings that ran through me the night we won this. Even to this day I think he will miss. Still get goosebumps. Oo to Oo to be Oo to be ah goonah.

  • @thelstanedwardsson4374
    @thelstanedwardsson4374 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The brilliant Brian Moore, the best ever commentator. RIP

  • @pantonioni
    @pantonioni 10 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Happy St Michael Thomas day Gooners.

  • @Abhisham16
    @Abhisham16 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Come on Arsenal we can do it again ❤

  • @louispks
    @louispks 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This match is the reason the Premier league was formed the TV channels realised you could have a huge audience watching league football. Remember the biggest TV games were the FA Cup Final.

  • @theamericangooner5104
    @theamericangooner5104 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I still have the JVC kit my 15 year old self was wearing that night at the pub, puke stains and all.

  • @fengsports2063
    @fengsports2063 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Goosebumps "it's up for grabs now! THOMAS! Right at the end!!!"

  • @darrylemberton4331
    @darrylemberton4331 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    surely one of the best games ever. to win the league at Anfeild unbelievable.

  • @glenprogk
    @glenprogk 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The greatest moment in football, ever.

  • @wmorris189
    @wmorris189 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Of all my memories as an Arsenal fan this is by far the best, makes me feel happy every time I think of it. Also, it reminds me of classy opponents, Liverpool what a team and club they are.

  • @artursfilipovs4923
    @artursfilipovs4923 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I see something similar here, liverpool were dominant through the 70's and 80's they lost the title on the last day in the last minute, then won it back the next year, after that went 30 years without one, when united became dominant through 90's and 00's they as well lost the title on the last day in the last minute to city, then won it back the next year and now its been 7 years since they have been on top and liverpool are now back on top, what a weird coinsidence

    • @simonlancaster4320
      @simonlancaster4320 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Fast forward three months and, oh, how this comment has aged well... 🤔🙈😂

    • @artursfilipovs4923
      @artursfilipovs4923 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@simonlancaster4320 its 1 season

  • @johnsaridakis2452
    @johnsaridakis2452 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Why didn’t John Barnes dribble the ball to the corner flag 🤦🏻‍♂️

    • @andreamanning1257
      @andreamanning1257 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I’ve seen an interview where he acknowledged he should have done just that

    • @KJ_2020
      @KJ_2020 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      maybe he didn't want to lose the game even though they were winning the title. i can kind of see why he might be conflicted at that moment

    • @aussieboy77
      @aussieboy77 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Because he wanted to win the game properly by playing football, not through time wasting.

    • @redflag8970
      @redflag8970 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Didn’t feel there was a threat

    • @nikreece6295
      @nikreece6295 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      i've thought that too over the last 35 years...lol...

  • @mcharrisment4765
    @mcharrisment4765 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I was in Tenerife on Friday May the 26th 1989 watching this live.
    I felt very sorry for LFC as they had just attended 94 odd funerals in the most horrific of circumstances - and to lose the league with the last kick is very cruel

  • @Wilshy
    @Wilshy 9 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I don't care what team you support. Moments like this, and United '99 are why we have sports. This is super epic, given the circumstances.

  • @philgriffin8285
    @philgriffin8285 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Incredible end of the season. Thomas pauses, waits for the goalkeeper to move a little and slots it in the other side. Magic.

  • @Wilshy
    @Wilshy 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The way that Winterburn celebrates is awesome.

  • @lengthmuldoon
    @lengthmuldoon 10 ปีที่แล้ว +85

    Liverpool were known as the devils spawn among evertonians (and I guess other fans) because of their renowned luck .... that night faith was restored in god.
    Well in gunners.

  • @PaulDuggan-l9u
    @PaulDuggan-l9u 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    As a man utd fan i can safely say this was probably the most dramatic ending to any league season i can remember, and it definitely tops citys aguero moment as it was the top 2 at the time and arsenal had to win by two clear goals, that was something special...

  • @tonykichenside8443
    @tonykichenside8443 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Greatest night ever,love watching this brings back great memories COYG

  • @JoeGraham11
    @JoeGraham11 10 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Watching this makes me glad they introduced the pass back rule.

  • @simoncampbell3144
    @simoncampbell3144 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I dont know if my memories correct but im convinced this match was shown live on TV , Practically unheard of back then

    • @eightiesmusic1984
      @eightiesmusic1984 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It was. It has been available on ITV catch up in the last couple of years. I had a Sky engineer round a few months ago and it was in the menu of catch up programmes recorded- he told me he had been at the match. A bit of a weird co-incidence given the chances of this are minimal.

  • @Myke-ju5lg
    @Myke-ju5lg 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Heard to match on my car radio.What a night !

  • @tteo8457
    @tteo8457 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    As a Liverpool fan and teenager during that time. First tasted the pain of long minute defeat.

  • @xpat73
    @xpat73 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Not a fan of either - but the most dramatic finish in British football ever. Everybody watched this game. I was doing my GCSEs at the time. Arsenal were a good team, but nobody believed they would go to Anfield and win 2-0. Nobody.

  • @DC11373
    @DC11373 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    What was better - this or Agueroooooooooooooooo!!!!
    Even though I was too young for this game, I think this. Top two teams play on the final day. One teams needs a 2-0 win at a bloody fortress. They get the second goal in the 91st minute, which by today’s extra time standards, is like the 99th minute.
    Amazing.

  • @neave789
    @neave789 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    as a neutral this has to be the most amazing finish to a title race ever
    Still get goosebumps watching it.
    In a time when added time was not shown by any official I watched this and loved arsenal getting that goal.

  • @warrenmyburgh2397
    @warrenmyburgh2397 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I was always a Man Utd fan as a youngster. Since that game I have been an Arsenal fan for life.