Probably the last time the cup final felt like a major event in this country. It was on 3 of the 4 channels. It felt massive, the country literally came to a standstill. We had pride in our cup final. After 88, it went down to one channel, the BBC for hold of it with their boring biased, coverageby 91 the first semi got played at Wembley, terracing was taken down, and it was the beginning of the end. Now look at it. Such a shame. Kind of mirrors how the country has gone as a whole.
I remember the 1989 final between Liverpool and Everton being a huge deal too but that may have been as much to do with being 10 at the time and of course what had happened just weeks prior. I fully agree with the rest though, modern finals are basically an excuse for the corporate bell-ends to get pissed for free at Wembley. Look how many of those mega expensive red seats are vacant for the first 20 minutes of the second half because their occupants are all still too busy shaking hands and taking selfies with the celebrities. Wembley is an expensive embarrassment.
Superbly put, completely right Stokesie. It's gone, they've ruined it, no one really cares now unless it's their team in the final. A wonderful sporting event totally wrecked by a money grabbing shower of bastards who tried to convince us they were making it better. All they ever really succeeded on doing was buggering the whole thing up, and we know that the so called Premier League and Champions League are also major contributors for the FA Cup's downfall.
Stokesie 1980 The Cup Final just feels like any other Saturday late afternoon/early evening game now. I feel like I'm watching any other 5:30pm kick off game on Sky now. Taking away the 3pm kick off was the final nail in the coffin. It's a crying shame.
My very first FA cup final as a 11 year old... Matches were not shown frequently in singapore back then. By this time... I had already had a love and loyalty for liverpool. This was the final where i cried. Because i had never seen liverpool lose prior to this. It was always liverpool, liverpool and liverpool. They just didnt know how to lose... YNWA
Great to see and you can see why Cup Finals were so much more special back then. Theres a real sense of occasion which is lacking now. These days it just feels like Wembley staging one of many functions.
Sitting here in this constant, massive overreaction that is lockdown, remembering what a great summer 1988 was. First I was at Wembley for the cup final, when we not only won the cup, but we beat the best team on the planet at the time, (arguably). Then I was back at Wembley a couple months later, for Springsteen’s, Tunnel of Love Tour, simply the best concert I’ve ever seen. Now that’s what you call a great summer
Strange, I can't hear a single chant from the Liverpool supporters as Wimbledon collect the trophy. They do sing YNWA after the final whistle, but that's just a salute to their team after they played a great season and came so close to the Double. It's almost as though you're an ABL who is seeing and hearing things that aren't there.
@@martinodoni8943 Booing as the Wimbledon players went up the steps. What is it as Dave Beasant goes up alonf to get the the trophy?... 'Liverpool', 'Liverpool', 'Liverpool'...Disgusting.
This is the first cup final I remember watching. I was only 6 years old at my Grandparents house & have this memory of everyone jumping up when Wimbledon scored. We are all Newcastle fans!! 🤣
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Fair play to Wimbledon they played really well on the day. Liverpool were breathtaking that season but on this day it just didn't happen for them. Maybe they underestimated Wimbledon and thought they would blow them away but that's what made the FA Cup so great back then.
It's been said that maybe Liverpool lacked a bit of sharpness with the title wrapped up weeks before. The last few games of the season, they didn't need to win, so lost their edge a bit. Had the league championship had gone down to the wire it may have been different, added to the fact that certain incidents contrived against them that afternoon. Fair do's to Wimbledon - they did their homework.
In 1970, 29m watched the epic replay on TV between Chelsea and Leeds Utd. In '88 only 11m watched Wimbledon v Liverpool on TV. (I am assuming the figures were correctly calculated.) Make of the above what one wants to.......
I notice that at 5 mins 10 Brian Moore says hello to those watching in Australia. It is still watched at midnight here. I never miss one. Mind you, I wish it was still on Channel 9
The 1987 and 1988 finals were the best in the competition’s history, both involving underdogs overcoming superior opponents. The 1988 final underscores the influence that erratic refereeing had on the outcome of matches in those days. However, all credit to Wimbledon. The Liverpool of the late 1980s ranks alongside Blackpool of the 1950s, Leeds United of the 1960s/70s and Manchester United of the 1990s as one of the great teams, and the gulf in class was obvious from kick-off, but Wimbledon were a robust side and took the fight to Liverpool.
Wimbledon had some good players in that side, much better than the detractors gave them credit for. Yes their style of play wasn't easy on the eye but they were no worse than most other teams, they played to their strengths and this was a victory for honest endeavour and will to win. I doubt that Wimbledon's style of play would be that successful and effective now because of the many rule changes in the game, but Wimbledon's story was unique and I doubt we'll see it again
@@mike04574 Of course, you're right. 89 was the famous Merseyside derby after the Hillsborough disaster. Everton equalised in the last minute and there was a pitch invasion. 90 was the one that had to be replayed and Leighton was dropped in the replay. I think the standard of football is generally better nowadays and the pitches are better, but somehow it's just not the same as those days. There was something magical and special about the cup final that isn't the case now.
funny you say that Tom, ive always thought this and youre the first person ive ever heard say it. i grew up living in kingston upon thames and supported wimbledon as a kid, but my dad was from coventry and was a massive cov fan. So, my babysitter she was a dons fan and would take me to plough lane to watch them, and then my dad would often take me to watch cov away games against london teams, However, like you said, 87 and 88 were two back to back years where there was MASSIVE underdogs in a final... cov had never been in a final or a semi, the whole team combined was worth about 750K, and they played spurs who had been in seven previous cup finals.....and.......had won all seven!! and then youve got wimbledon of course, who came from non league to the top flight in a ridiculously short time of like 11 years i think.( and also played one of the best teams in the world at that time) anyway. i got a bit excited that you made that point tom so i thought id babble on about your point a bit. sorry to bore ya! haha. Have a good day mate.
@@jamiew1664 Not bored at all, good comment. I'm a Leeds fan and was actually at the 1987 semi-final. I was only 9 and the only thing I remember (and not even sure if this is accurate and I even forget where it was!) is that a woman standing up near us threw the ball to a Coventry player and then they scored! LOL. Interesting thing is we were the definite underdogs that game as we were then in Second Division, but Coventry became the definite underdogs in the final against a talented Tottenham side.
Adam Weishaupt 7th....Arsenal were 6th 9 points above Wimbledon. But yeah still it's a cup final anything can happen I always think like that. Especially when it's 2 teams who are at least in the same division.
I know this is a late response but it's important to remember that just ten years prior to '88, Wimbledon was in the fourth division so although they had a good season in the first division that year (7th place finish), they really were seen as underdogs as they had risen so quickly and so unexpectedly.
As a west Brom fan, I was so happy for Laurie cunningham!! And then 12 months later; So sad; he and cyrille were so loved by us baggies fans, I just hope they realised just how much. I was 15 at the time and watched it wth a load of Scousers in Majorca. I cheered when Laurie came on I cheered then dons won the cup I left eagerly. LOL
This is the first time I have seen this match in full since 1988! How the hell did Liverpool lose this match? The goal by Beardsley should never have been ruled out. Madness. Credit to Wimbledon for their spoiling tactics, they stopped Liverpool playing their smooth football. Wimbledon hardly put five passes together all match!! Plus Vinnie Jones' tackle on McMahon should have been a yellow card. It just went all wrong for Liverpool and definitely brings back bad memories. Throughout the 1990s I went to Sehurst Park a few times and saw Liverpool lose or draw with Wimbledon virtually every time, including 1997 when they finished off Liverpool's title challenge that season. I also saw Crystal Palace beat Liverpool at Selhurst Park as well even when Dalglish was still manager in 1990. Even when I would go to Anfield to watch Liverpool take on Wimbledon, they would end up drawing. I remember in 1996/97 Loehardsen equalised for Wimbledon late on at Anfield, next season Liverpool buy him! Liverpool at that stage were going nowhere fast. Sadly throughout the 1990s I don't recall going to a match home or away where Liverpool actually beat Wimbledon. The strange thing about this Wimbledon team is they had good players despite the dreadful football. Dennis Wise became a Chelsea captain and legend. John Scales went to Liverpool in 1994, Terry Phelan played for Ireland, Laurie Cunningham was past his best but a top talent. Don Howe was a well respected coach and former manager of Arsenal. Terry Gibson played for Manchester Utd. Just a very strange day in 1988, not to be for Liverpool but well done Wimbledon. As a Londoner it was sad to see what happened to Wimbledon in 2000 even though I didn't like their football much.
I think the last proper competitive Fa cup was 1993, and since then it starts going down with the introduction of PL, CL, Sky Tv and Bosman, the FA cup is the greatest and oldest football competition, and is major and important as the championship in my opinion, gone the replay days, we hardly see lower teams in the finals and surprises against odds which make it so exciting and gives hope for smaller teams in glory, and the final nail in the coffin is wembly, cant believe how they demolished the historical stadium and build this sole less stadium.
Some observations: Wimbledon played almost 90 minutes of low block defending. This was a way of defending that was quite uncommon back then for pro clubs, unlike now. The way to get around it, I think is to let the low block team come at you and hit them on the break or draw them in and then hit a key pass. Unless you're Man City who can pass through teams at will. But Liverpool in 1988, as good as they were, were not the Man City of modern day. Thus, Liverpool made the mistake of trying to pass through Wimbledon and it was just impossible but back then, as I say, that type of defending was so uncommon, teams didn't really know how to counter it. Barnes resorted to hit and hope crosses. Beardsley trying to take 3 Wimbledon players on every time and losing out. You could tell Liverpool sort of gave up hope. The disallowed Beardsley goal was symptomatic of the quality of refereeing back then. You think it is bad now, it was bloody terrible back then. The goal Liverpool conceded was just rank bad defending. Gary Ablett just didn't want to attack the ball and so ultimately that gave Sanchez a free header. The penalty was obviously never a penalty and I always thought the ref gave it to make up for Beardsley's disallowed goal. But Aldridge's kick was so poor. Telegraphed into the hands of Beasant. It was not a difficult save. And the adverts - well, they are definitely worth watching. Good times the late 80's.
What is even more amazing to me as a down trodden leeds fan that just four seasons after this Leeds Utd who were then in the old second division would be above Liverpool in the top flight and League Champions of England! Staggering to think even now.
I watched this in Cyprus, had a guy on the flat roof of a clubhouse holding the aerial so we could pick this up on Middle East TV and the sound came from the BBC World Service.
It takes a special kind of idiot to mess up a marriage with Princess Diana. She added the touch a exquisite class to an unforgettable day of cup final football. I had just finished secondary school that summer with the world ahead of me, it's been a tough life but watching this final and build-up on the old tv set with old friends long gone is memories one should cherish. Life goes by at the blink of an eye.
Beardsley was definitely pulled back, the problem was the ref blew for a foul straight away rather than playing the advantage. So yes, minor mistake by the ref but Liverpool didn't deserve to win that day anyway.
Still better than the alternative. 5 minute delay for VAR, 5 minute delay for injury treatment to the attacker, red card for the defender, totally ruined the game. But a decision was given correctly. Yayyyy
Wimbledon. To do what they did a non Lge side, then zipped up the four divs to Div1 & stay there nigh on 10yrs, oh won FAC agin LFC & sold players too big boys. Big respect, Roy of the Rovers made real.
Brian More gave fulsome praise to the Wimbledon goal. Whereas the Liverpool supporter John Motson commentated to the Wimledon goal through gritted teeth.
I remember the media bleating at the time that this was the shock of the century, but not only were Wimbledon in the same league, but they finished 7th in the league that year. It was hardly the shock of the decade never mind the century.
Same as the year before, when 3rd-placed Spurs (71 pts) "shockingly" lost 3-2 to 10th-placed Coventry (63 pts), who'd already beaten them 4-3 in the league.
I noticed that backpassing was allowed, both keepers picked up direct passes from defenders. Guess backpassing is a rule that wasn't around in the 80s, cool
Did you notice there is a player in this match who later played in another FA Cup match featuring Cristiano Ronaldo. Crazy that Ronaldo played against these people and is still scoring goals today
Appalling refereeing decision. Beardsley rode the foul so the ref should have played on, and called it back if he hadn't scored. Excellent skill by Beardsley and, had the goal stood, Liverpool could have easily gone on to win it.
Worse was the penalty decision. If John Aldridgepenaltycheat had got up and said to the ref, no it was not a pen, even if he had missed, I think Liverpool would have won the match. Instead, he looked like a cheat who had got his just deserts.
@@thevillaaston7811 No, the decision against Beardsley was clearly far worse, because the player scoring is penalised for a foul ON him, plus Wimbledon went downfield and scored a minute later from a very questionable free kick. Worse, while everyone remembers that Goodyear clearly won the ball for the penalty Liverpool were awarded, they all forget another terrible bit of refereeing that came at 56:42, when Aldridge was clearly barged over on the penalty spot by Young, and nothing was given at all. The Wimbledon players who were in that Final have never stopped moaning to this day about the penalty that Liverpool were given. But they keep forgetting the three other enormous blunders the referee committed that all went in Wimbledon's favour, and all played a huge role in deciding the game.
@@martinodoni8943 56:42 John Aldridgepenaltycheat and Eric Young were nowhere near enough to each other for the well placed referee to give a penalty. John Aldridgepenaltycheat was just having dip to see if he would get lucky. Of of course, he got lucky in the second half...and got his comeuppance. The foul for the free kick before Wimbledon scored their well deserved goal was routine decision via a well placed linesman. If you have got a problem that, you have a problem with anything. Mavellous! Beardley, and playing advantage. No doubt people in Liverpool were shedding tears. No doubt, people in Turin were shedding a lot more tears three years earlier. Vinnie Jones facing down Steve McMahon, Ian St John and the Liverpool suppoter John Motson trying, and failing to convey evenhandedness. Big Ears trying to cope with failure. Greavesie thoroughly enjoying himself, Don Howe giving the media a long overdue lecture about what football should really be about. Marvellous! Liverpool had gone from a bunch of cloggers in the 60s (Smith, Yeats, St John, and so on), to a team that ground out results in the 70s, through to a team that was finally being feted for the quality of it play, in its arrogance, thinking it only had to turn up at Wembley to claim the trophy. Fancy Liverpool, with all their money, support, and media mates having to rely on cheating the referee to try to get past ex Southern League Wimbledon. Fancy Liverpool, with all their money, support, and media mates getting turned over by ex Southern League Wimbledon. Wimbledon, who had their cup-final celebration in a marquee on the pitch at Plough Lane.. Marvellous! As far as the supporters were concerned, the good guys won, the murderers lost.
@@martinodoni8943 And while I am about it...Craig Johnstonwaanabepenaltycheat tried his luck to con the referee into giving Liverpool a penalty in the last few minutes.
I am here by the recommendation of Steve Nicol and Craig Burley from ESPN FC
as am I lol
Where is this Jones hack job? Time stamp?
same here
@@DuxEtRex 25:30
Dont get what Craig was on about, clean tackle quick free kick nothing to see here 😂
When the cup final had so much meaning.
Craig barley sent me
What's so special about the kickoff?
it wasn't as bad as Craig made out, not the first 30 seconds at least.
Where’s the horrendous tackle he’s talking about?
there are a few by vinnie jones so far. i'm still on the first half.
where's the foul yo?
This final was football at its best, for everything it meant. And Liverpool were indeed one of the best teams in the world back then.
87 and 91 cup finals were much better this one too is up there
Probably the last time the cup final felt like a major event in this country. It was on 3 of the 4 channels. It felt massive, the country literally came to a standstill. We had pride in our cup final. After 88, it went down to one channel, the BBC for hold of it with their boring biased, coverageby 91 the first semi got played at Wembley, terracing was taken down, and it was the beginning of the end. Now look at it. Such a shame. Kind of mirrors how the country has gone as a whole.
I remember the 1989 final between Liverpool and Everton being a huge deal too but that may have been as much to do with being 10 at the time and of course what had happened just weeks prior. I fully agree with the rest though, modern finals are basically an excuse for the corporate bell-ends to get pissed for free at Wembley. Look how many of those mega expensive red seats are vacant for the first 20 minutes of the second half because their occupants are all still too busy shaking hands and taking selfies with the celebrities. Wembley is an expensive embarrassment.
Superbly put, completely right Stokesie. It's gone, they've ruined it, no one really cares now unless it's their team in the final. A wonderful sporting event totally wrecked by a money grabbing shower of bastards who tried to convince us they were making it better. All they ever really succeeded on doing was buggering the whole thing up, and we know that the so called Premier League and Champions League are also major contributors for the FA Cup's downfall.
Stokesie 1980 The Cup Final just feels like any other Saturday late afternoon/early evening game now. I feel like I'm watching any other 5:30pm kick off game on Sky now. Taking away the 3pm kick off was the final nail in the coffin. It's a crying shame.
football died the second that FIFA awarded the World Cup to Qatar
Spot on there Stokesie 1980
Nice to see Greavsie got dressed for the occasion.
Laughed so hard when I read this lol
Straight from the boozer?
My very first FA cup final as a 11 year old... Matches were not shown frequently in singapore back then. By this time... I had already had a love and loyalty for liverpool. This was the final where i cried. Because i had never seen liverpool lose prior to this. It was always liverpool, liverpool and liverpool. They just didnt know how to lose... YNWA
Great to see and you can see why Cup Finals were so much more special back then. Theres a real sense of occasion which is lacking now. These days it just feels like Wembley staging one of many functions.
It's still special to me and millions of us outside of England. In fact it seems to only have lost its appeal in its own country
Being at this game was pure magic to a 13 year old teenager, wonderful day ..
Sitting here in this constant, massive overreaction that is lockdown, remembering what a great summer 1988 was.
First I was at Wembley for the cup final, when we not only won the cup, but we beat the best team on the planet at the time, (arguably).
Then I was back at Wembley a couple months later, for Springsteen’s, Tunnel of Love Tour, simply the best concert I’ve ever seen.
Now that’s what you call a great summer
And as a Liverpool fan I totally don't begrudge your summer, especially as you are on my wavelength with that lockdown BS
@@eightiesmusic1984 sure it was
@@eightiesmusic1984 yes; bright enough to spot a moron!
00.1.36. Human domino toppling, match fun in me 1888 ! 👴
That Liverpool team was arguably the greatest side Liverpool ever had.
The culture club versus the crazy gang.
My opinion for what its worth, best liverpool team was joe fagans team.
Add the 1978-79, team into the mix.
@@macker33 Bob Paisley's teams 76-77,78-79,81-82. Fagan was the apprentice.
@@phillipgreer4875 You could be right, i only got on board may 1980.
1983/84 weren't bad neither.❤
I was 9 years old when Wimbledon won the cup. To this day I remember how Merton was buzzing. Happy days!
Wimbledon deservedly collected the trophy...with graceless chants from Liverpool supporters in the background.
Strange, I can't hear a single chant from the Liverpool supporters as Wimbledon collect the trophy. They do sing YNWA after the final whistle, but that's just a salute to their team after they played a great season and came so close to the Double.
It's almost as though you're an ABL who is seeing and hearing things that aren't there.
@@martinodoni8943
Booing as the Wimbledon players went up the steps. What is it as Dave Beasant goes up alonf to get the the trophy?... 'Liverpool', 'Liverpool', 'Liverpool'...Disgusting.
I love that the adverts were all left in.
This is the first cup final I remember watching. I was only 6 years old at my Grandparents house & have this memory of everyone jumping up when Wimbledon scored. We are all Newcastle fans!! 🤣
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Brilliant commentary again from Brian Moore. Just superb.
14th may 1988 what a day fantastic unforgettable memories the day had it all and boy did we party !!!
"Dave Beasant, the man who cost a thousand pounds from Edgware Town"
Oh God how the game has changed lol
Hugh Bliette Why would Grobelaar give money to Beasant? I’m not getting that.
@@richardjames1431 nice matchfixing reference haha
That's a lot of money, considering that Watford bought John Barnes from Sudbury Town in return for a set of spare kits.
LoL
Wimbledon sponsored by Carlsberg back then, which Liverpool would be from 1992 to 2010.
Probably the best game in FA Cup final history!!!
1:28:04 RIP Laurie Cunningham. Sadly passed away just 14 months later from this cup final appearance aged just 33.
What a quality player he was!
I just came here because of Legendary picture of Diana and King Kenny !!
Diana is such a gorgeous lady !! So humble and classy !!
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Attendance for the 1988 FA Cup Final was 98,203 fans.
Fair play to Wimbledon they played really well on the day. Liverpool were breathtaking that season but on this day it just didn't happen for them. Maybe they underestimated Wimbledon and thought they would blow them away but that's what made the FA Cup so great back then.
It's been said that maybe Liverpool lacked a bit of sharpness with the title wrapped up weeks before. The last few games of the season, they didn't need to win, so lost their edge a bit. Had the league championship had gone down to the wire it may have been different, added to the fact that certain incidents contrived against them that afternoon. Fair do's to Wimbledon - they did their homework.
swkenny very very true !!!
In 1970, 29m watched the epic replay on TV between Chelsea and Leeds Utd. In '88 only 11m watched Wimbledon v Liverpool on TV. (I am assuming the figures were correctly calculated.)
Make of the above what one wants to.......
been looking for that song played at the end for such a long time thank you brother LEGEND !!
1:34 wow! Overcrowding accident with Liverpool supporters and precursor to Hilsborough disaster a year later
Yep true, but crowd surges were commonplace back then.
I notice that at 5 mins 10 Brian Moore says hello to those watching in Australia. It is still watched at midnight here. I never miss one. Mind you, I wish it was still on Channel 9
The 1987 and 1988 finals were the best in the competition’s history, both involving underdogs overcoming superior opponents. The 1988 final underscores the influence that erratic refereeing had on the outcome of matches in those days. However, all credit to Wimbledon. The Liverpool of the late 1980s ranks alongside Blackpool of the 1950s, Leeds United of the 1960s/70s and Manchester United of the 1990s as one of the great teams, and the gulf in class was obvious from kick-off, but Wimbledon were a robust side and took the fight to Liverpool.
Wimbledon had some good players in that side, much better than the detractors gave them credit for. Yes their style of play wasn't easy on the eye but they were no worse than most other teams, they played to their strengths and this was a victory for honest endeavour and will to win. I doubt that Wimbledon's style of play would be that successful and effective now because of the many rule changes in the game, but Wimbledon's story was unique and I doubt we'll see it again
89 and 90 were great too, it was a good run
@@mike04574 Of course, you're right. 89 was the famous Merseyside derby after the Hillsborough disaster. Everton equalised in the last minute and there was a pitch invasion. 90 was the one that had to be replayed and Leighton was dropped in the replay. I think the standard of football is generally better nowadays and the pitches are better, but somehow it's just not the same as those days. There was something magical and special about the cup final that isn't the case now.
funny you say that Tom, ive always thought this and youre the first person ive ever heard say it. i grew up living in kingston upon thames and supported wimbledon as a kid, but my dad was from coventry and was a massive cov fan. So, my babysitter she was a dons fan and would take me to plough lane to watch them, and then my dad would often take me to watch cov away games against london teams,
However, like you said, 87 and 88 were two back to back years where there was MASSIVE underdogs in a final... cov had never been in a final or a semi, the whole team combined was worth about 750K, and they played spurs who had been in seven previous cup finals.....and.......had won all seven!!
and then youve got wimbledon of course, who came from non league to the top flight in a ridiculously short time of like 11 years i think.( and also played one of the best teams in the world at that time) anyway. i got a bit excited that you made that point tom so i thought id babble on about your point a bit. sorry to bore ya! haha. Have a good day mate.
@@jamiew1664 Not bored at all, good comment. I'm a Leeds fan and was actually at the 1987 semi-final. I was only 9 and the only thing I remember (and not even sure if this is accurate and I even forget where it was!) is that a woman standing up near us threw the ball to a Coventry player and then they scored! LOL. Interesting thing is we were the definite underdogs that game as we were then in Second Division, but Coventry became the definite underdogs in the final against a talented Tottenham side.
Craig Barley sent me here too! Also it’s about 8mins into the game and not 30seconds like he stated
Who's here because of ESPN FC ?
I know Liverpool were a great team, but why were people talking about Wimbledon as if they were a bunch of no-hopers? They finished 6th that season.
Adam Weishaupt
7th....Arsenal were 6th 9 points above Wimbledon.
But yeah still it's a cup final anything can happen I always think like that. Especially when it's 2 teams who are at least in the same division.
Yeah I am a Liverpool fan and didn't understand it. It was not like they were a lower division team and had beaten us the previous season.
Media Narrative. Don't buy into it guys.
Adam Weishaupt because that Liverpool team were regarded the best Liverpool team ever they were a class apart that season
I know this is a late response but it's important to remember that just ten years prior to '88, Wimbledon was in the fourth division so although they had a good season in the first division that year (7th place finish), they really were seen as underdogs as they had risen so quickly and so unexpectedly.
Thanks for uploading this. I have so many happy memories of that glorious day when Wimbledon creamed Liverpool!!!
Liverpool had an unfortunate off day when it mattered most. Second on the day, but second to nobody throughout the league season.
@@treadstone1970 I wouldn't dispute that point Tim.
Bloody hell, Grevsie is 48 years old here, but looks Sixty! Bit too much half-time hospitality on this and other occasions?
Strict 95%-alcohol diet.
10:02 stood next to Ray Houghton who scored against England in those Euros.
I still can’t watch this game again….saw it then, cried and never revisited this match or the 1989 loss to arsenal
As a west Brom fan, I was so happy for Laurie cunningham!! And then 12 months later; So sad; he and cyrille were so loved by us baggies fans, I just hope they realised just how much.
I was 15 at the time and watched it wth a load of Scousers in Majorca. I cheered when Laurie came on I cheered then dons won the cup I left eagerly. LOL
Great to see LWT footage.Thanks for upload.
The magic sponge!! It was filthy ;)
Imagine if it was used on nowadays players??
This is the first time I have seen this match in full since 1988! How the hell did Liverpool lose this match? The goal by Beardsley should never have been ruled out. Madness. Credit to Wimbledon for their spoiling tactics, they stopped Liverpool playing their smooth football. Wimbledon hardly put five passes together all match!! Plus Vinnie Jones' tackle on McMahon should have been a yellow card.
It just went all wrong for Liverpool and definitely brings back bad memories. Throughout the 1990s I went to Sehurst Park a few times and saw Liverpool lose or draw with Wimbledon virtually every time, including 1997 when they finished off Liverpool's title challenge that season. I also saw Crystal Palace beat Liverpool at Selhurst Park as well even when Dalglish was still manager in 1990.
Even when I would go to Anfield to watch Liverpool take on Wimbledon, they would end up drawing. I remember in 1996/97 Loehardsen equalised for Wimbledon late on at Anfield, next season Liverpool buy him! Liverpool at that stage were going nowhere fast. Sadly throughout the 1990s I don't recall going to a match home or away where Liverpool actually beat Wimbledon.
The strange thing about this Wimbledon team is they had good players despite the dreadful football. Dennis Wise became a Chelsea captain and legend. John Scales went to Liverpool in 1994, Terry Phelan played for Ireland, Laurie Cunningham was past his best but a top talent. Don Howe was a well respected coach and former manager of Arsenal. Terry Gibson played for Manchester Utd.
Just a very strange day in 1988, not to be for Liverpool but well done Wimbledon.
As a Londoner it was sad to see what happened to Wimbledon in 2000 even though I didn't like their football much.
It was never a foul by Nicol on Phelan that led to the free kick for the goal either.
@@-dave3577 you know of all of the years I've seen that goal your right it never should have been a free kick barley touched him.
@@-dave3577yep..👍
my existence on planet earth didn't spawn till the year after this match :D
I think the last proper competitive Fa cup was 1993, and since then it starts going down with the introduction of PL, CL, Sky Tv and Bosman, the FA cup is the greatest and oldest football competition, and is major and important as the championship in my opinion, gone the replay days, we hardly see lower teams in the finals and surprises against odds which make it so exciting and gives hope for smaller teams in glory, and the final nail in the coffin is wembly, cant believe how they demolished the historical stadium and build this sole less stadium.
We see so many surprises in the FA cup even now
The FA Cup has lost none of its magic
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Some observations: Wimbledon played almost 90 minutes of low block defending. This was a way of defending that was quite uncommon back then for pro clubs, unlike now. The way to get around it, I think is to let the low block team come at you and hit them on the break or draw them in and then hit a key pass. Unless you're Man City who can pass through teams at will. But Liverpool in 1988, as good as they were, were not the Man City of modern day. Thus, Liverpool made the mistake of trying to pass through Wimbledon and it was just impossible but back then, as I say, that type of defending was so uncommon, teams didn't really know how to counter it. Barnes resorted to hit and hope crosses. Beardsley trying to take 3 Wimbledon players on every time and losing out. You could tell Liverpool sort of gave up hope. The disallowed Beardsley goal was symptomatic of the quality of refereeing back then. You think it is bad now, it was bloody terrible back then. The goal Liverpool conceded was just rank bad defending. Gary Ablett just didn't want to attack the ball and so ultimately that gave Sanchez a free header. The penalty was obviously never a penalty and I always thought the ref gave it to make up for Beardsley's disallowed goal. But Aldridge's kick was so poor. Telegraphed into the hands of Beasant. It was not a difficult save. And the adverts - well, they are definitely worth watching. Good times the late 80's.
Greavesy - did nothing on the pitch for 89 minutes but somehow always bagged a goal or two. Incredible.
Yep,always quality nonsense lol
What is even more amazing to me as a down trodden leeds fan that just four seasons after this Leeds Utd who were then in the old second division would be above Liverpool in the top flight and League Champions of England! Staggering to think even now.
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John Fashanu, John Fashanu, John Fashanu, John Fashanu,......
That’s John Fasharnu tonight on BBC2
Love that he still has his gloves on, like 20 mins after the game ended
RIP Brian Moore
Great upload mate. Hope the spoilsport FA don't get it taken down.
The big question is - did the fan survive at 1.38?
Holy crap that looked really nasty didn't it?
OMG lol
146 innocent fans killed by Liverpool fans in the 1980s
Banned from Europe for 5 years. You get a longer ban for saying "negro"
1:38
@@disobeytoday4685 146? Where did you get that number from, you lying tosser?
I watched this in Cyprus, had a guy on the flat roof of a clubhouse holding the aerial so we could pick this up on Middle East TV and the sound came from the BBC World Service.
I'm here for the adverts. Cheers.
From what I remember of this game it just didn’t spark,Liverpool couldn’t get into a rhythm,but what a team Liverpool had,the best in the world.
Vinnie Jones famous tackle on Steve McMahon at 25:33
great track suit from both team
I loved the post-match interviews so much fun unlike our boring, bland, robots nowadays 👏🏾
It takes a special kind of idiot to mess up a marriage with Princess Diana. She added the touch a exquisite class to an unforgettable day of cup final football. I had just finished secondary school that summer with the world ahead of me, it's been a tough life but watching this final and build-up on the old tv set with old friends long gone is memories one should cherish. Life goes by at the blink of an eye.
everyone thought we'd lose
media: its going to be 5-0 or 4-0 to liverpool.
we won though
Daniel Johnson I was 10 years old and I cud not believe it .
Wen I use the word BELIEVE IT..
I mean it I just couldn't believe Wimbledon won
Even after 32 years (2020) its still like a bad dream
Even after 34 years im still gutted
50:27 seriously?
Beardsley was definitely pulled back, the problem was the ref blew for a foul straight away rather than playing the advantage. So yes, minor mistake by the ref but Liverpool didn't deserve to win that day anyway.
Still better than the alternative. 5 minute delay for VAR, 5 minute delay for injury treatment to the attacker, red card for the defender, totally ruined the game. But a decision was given correctly. Yayyyy
@@disobeytoday4685 Var would have probably ruled him offside.
this oval track sand at Wembley was used for dog track? greyhounds ...
and speedway aswell
Wimbledon. To do what they did a non Lge side, then zipped up the four divs to Div1 & stay there nigh on 10yrs, oh won FAC agin LFC & sold players too big boys. Big respect, Roy of the Rovers made real.
Whatever the result ,was a tremendous occasion the Fa cup was magic , special the old wembley so much better than the new . They can keep it !!!!
Whatever the result ?? Wtf are you talking about ? The result is why it is still remembered ffs !
52:42 . you owe me.
why oh why do you remove the sound when i try to upload this to be editted?
I'm a West Ham fan but Liverpool 86-90 were fantastic!
No,87/88 were better !
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see that lad get pushed by his mates at 1.37.....are they standing on the crowd barriers ?
►WIM ♦ DT: Bobby Gould ♦ 1.Dave Beasant | 2.Clive Goodyear - 5.Eric Young - 6.Andy Thorn - 3.Terry Phelan | 8.Alan Cork - 10.Lawrie Sanchez - 4.Vinnie Jones - 11.Dennis Wise | 7.Terry Gibson - 9.John Fashanu.
►LIV ♦ DT: Kenny Dalglish ♦ 1.Bruce Grobbelaar | 4.Steve Nicol - 2.Gary Gillespie - 6.Alan Hansen - 3.Gary Ablett | 9.Ray Houghton - 5.Nigel Spackman - 11.Steve McMahon - 10.John Barnes | 7.Peter Beardsley - 8.John Aldridge.
1:12:31 You're Fired
Freddy Mercury surprisingly good as reds goalkeeper
Back when cup finals meant something.
Wow, Jimmy Greaves, Dave Bassett, and the twin towers. Reliving my childhood!
Who else is here through desperation after they cancelled the league because of Coronavirus
Haha so true
Did both ITV and BBC show the cup final live?
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Is that jimmy greaves at the start?
Brian 'Little Dennis Wise' Moore.
'not one of the prettiest finals'. Brian Moore.
It was a truly beautiful afternoon.
Brian More gave fulsome praise to the Wimbledon goal. Whereas the Liverpool supporter John Motson commentated to the Wimledon goal through gritted teeth.
o... Lady Diana :-)
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she was beautiful gorgeous so missed
@@andrewwells531 Yes, she looked amazing.
Imagine if Grobelaar and Beasant played nowadays!?!?!?! They would get such a blocking for kicking long all the time 😂
And no one hardly mentions what my Dad said (he went to 5 FA Cups in 60s) playing 2 injured players v a physical side put Liverpool on back foot.
when england was still english. such a shame.
STFU you bigot.
Secular Scot He’s right though. Bigotry doesn’t come into it.
I'm ashamed to be English.
Who is presenting along with Dave Bassett and a hammered Greavsie? It's not Bob Wilson is it?!
You mean host Elton Welsby?
IT is absolutely amaizing how this people support (THe reds) .It is similar to how supporters act here in south america .....It is really special....
I remember the media bleating at the time that this was the shock of the century, but not only were Wimbledon in the same league, but they finished 7th in the league that year. It was hardly the shock of the decade never mind the century.
I broadly agree. 2nd Division Sunderland beating Leeds in 1973 was a bigger shock.
Same as the year before, when 3rd-placed Spurs (71 pts) "shockingly" lost 3-2 to 10th-placed Coventry (63 pts), who'd already beaten them 4-3 in the league.
The following year bring together merseyside derby..I was there as Evertonian
Look a Wembley Stadium back then? Haven 17. Who's bright idea was to change it all?!?!?!?!
The weather was only 24 degrees!
The perfect reducer
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I noticed that backpassing was allowed, both keepers picked up direct passes from defenders. Guess backpassing is a rule that wasn't around in the 80s, cool
Did you notice there is a player in this match who later played in another FA Cup match featuring Cristiano Ronaldo.
Crazy that Ronaldo played against these people and is still scoring goals today
@@disobeytoday4685 Ah yes ! Dennis Wise the little runt !
The law against 'keepers handling backpasses wasn't introduced until 1992.
12:00my all time favourite lady diana is here
Appalling refereeing decision. Beardsley rode the foul so the ref should have played on, and called it back if he hadn't scored. Excellent skill by Beardsley and, had the goal stood, Liverpool could have easily gone on to win it.
Worse was the penalty decision.
If John Aldridgepenaltycheat had got up and said to the ref, no it was not a pen, even if he had missed, I think Liverpool would have won the match. Instead, he looked like a cheat who had got his just deserts.
@@thevillaaston7811 No, the decision against Beardsley was clearly far worse, because the player scoring is penalised for a foul ON him, plus Wimbledon went downfield and scored a minute later from a very questionable free kick.
Worse, while everyone remembers that Goodyear clearly won the ball for the penalty Liverpool were awarded, they all forget another terrible bit of refereeing that came at 56:42, when Aldridge was clearly barged over on the penalty spot by Young, and nothing was given at all.
The Wimbledon players who were in that Final have never stopped moaning to this day about the penalty that Liverpool were given. But they keep forgetting the three other enormous blunders the referee committed that all went in Wimbledon's favour, and all played a huge role in deciding the game.
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56:42 John Aldridgepenaltycheat and Eric Young were nowhere near enough to each other for the well placed referee to give a penalty. John Aldridgepenaltycheat was just having dip to see if he would get lucky. Of of course, he got lucky in the second half...and got his comeuppance.
The foul for the free kick before Wimbledon scored their well deserved goal was routine decision via a well placed linesman. If you have got a problem that, you have a problem with anything. Mavellous!
Beardley, and playing advantage. No doubt people in Liverpool were shedding tears. No doubt, people in Turin were shedding a lot more tears three years earlier.
Vinnie Jones facing down Steve McMahon, Ian St John and the Liverpool suppoter John Motson trying, and failing to convey evenhandedness. Big Ears trying to cope with failure. Greavesie thoroughly enjoying himself, Don Howe giving the media a long overdue lecture about what football should really be about. Marvellous!
Liverpool had gone from a bunch of cloggers in the 60s (Smith, Yeats, St John, and so on), to a team that ground out results in the 70s, through to a team that was finally being feted for the quality of it play, in its arrogance, thinking it only had to turn up at Wembley to claim the trophy.
Fancy Liverpool, with all their money, support, and media mates having to rely on cheating the referee to try to get past ex Southern League Wimbledon.
Fancy Liverpool, with all their money, support, and media mates getting turned over by ex Southern League Wimbledon.
Wimbledon, who had their cup-final celebration in a marquee on the pitch at Plough Lane.. Marvellous!
As far as the supporters were concerned, the good guys won, the murderers lost.
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And while I am about it...Craig Johnstonwaanabepenaltycheat tried his luck to con the referee into giving Liverpool a penalty in the last few minutes.
Why is this in my recommended after Stevie said we must TH-cam it
Ahhh. good ole England
Man, Wimbledon's keeper looks like a giant compared to other players