anfield 89 anniversary

[arseofacrow]

I actually do believe Herd. I can also confirm that Michael Watson did live on the De Beauvoir estate with his family around that time (now lives in Chingford).

[SWLGooner]

I traveled up there there with John Radford and Micheal Watson !

Of course you did!

What happened? Did Bruce Willis and Madonna cancel at the last minute?

Reeled in again DB10 !

No we were going to be interviewed for some London Weekend program "now at 6" ?? or something like that ,I was Living in Westport Ct and Working in Manhattan and the press found it incredulous that someone would come all that way for game that according to most we couldn't win by 2 Goals .

Westport? You bloody Tarquin

[DB10GOONER]

I traveled up there there with John Radford and Micheal Watson !

Of course you did!

What happened? Did Bruce Willis and Madonna cancel at the last minute?

Reeled in again DB10 !

No we were going to be interviewed for some London Weekend program "now at 6" ?? or something like that ,I was Living in Westport Ct and Working in Manhattan and the press found it incredulous that someone would come all that way for game that according to most we couldn't win by 2 Goals .

Westport? You bloody Tarquin

Love it!

"Tarquin" - the grammatical equivalent of wearing Burberry. Bet Herd says it all the time!

[Herd]

You make a lot of suppositions DB 10 however very few are accurate ..............or funny ,but do keep trying ,its not even June yet !

[flash gunner]

Im presuming youre story is true here Herd Do you remember if Watson looked or seemed beaten up? If i remember rightly it was only a couple of days or so after his fight with Nigel Benn.

Im not trying to catch you out just wondered seeing as you spent a few hours in a car with him

[arseofacrow]

Im presuming youre story is true here Herd ...

I have $600,000,00 waiting for you , etc....

[Herd]

Im presuming youre story is true here Herd Do you remember if Watson looked or seemed beaten up? If i remember rightly it was only a couple of days or so after his fight with Nigel Benn.

I'm not trying to catch you out just wondered seeing as you spent a few hours in a car with him

From memory no he didn't but then again he is kind of dark ,I guess it must have been around that time as the BBC where there when we arrived to pick him up !

If any of you want verification all u have to do is ring the person who was in charge of the travel club at that time ,he is still there and is on the coaching staff but is also a kit man and does the travel for the team,first name Paul !

[StuartL]

Just something that I have been wondering at Herd.

you said that the press couldn't believe that someone was coming all the way over from America to watch the game (supporting us and hoping for a win)

How on earth would they know without someone telling them ??

I didn't tell my local Suffolk press that I was attending the match and got no publicity at all.

[QuartzGooner]

Watson beat Benn on 21 May 1989.

From memory of the fight, Watson spent a lot of time with his arms and gloves held in front of his face, whilst Benn whacked way exhausting himself in the process.
Watson then unloaded a combination on Benn who was KO'd.

So Watson would not have taken too mush punishment to the face, though he took some brutal shots to the ribs.

[Herd]

Just something that I have been wondering at Herd.

you said that the press couldn't believe that someone was coming all the way over from America to watch the game (supporting us and hoping for a win)
How on earth would they know without someone telling them ??
I didn't tell my local Suffolk press that I was attending the match and got no publicity at all.

The club told them after I rang up the travel club and got a ticket .
I had the evening standard daily mail and LWT ring me up in the US,there were some articles apparently but I never saw them .

On the back of the LWT Interview I rang up Virgin and told them I would wear a Virgin shirt if they paid my airfare which they declined so I shelled out about 450 quid to get home via BA ,when I got home my old man gave me 20 quid to buy a drink ,told him to keep it and put it arsenal to win 2-0 @ 16-1 ,I then gave him 50 for Arsenal to win the league @ 8-1 which he did . Next Day went to pick up the winnings and the Manager who knew my old man but not me came up to the counter wearing a gold spurs cockerel round his neck ,when I gave him the ticket he started laughing and opened a bottle of shampoo which the three of us shared ,class work from a Spurs fan !
Went back on the Sunday after an all day Saturday in the Pubs around the ground and the Thornhill !
All in all a great trip !

[arseofacrow]

Just something that I have been wondering at Herd.

you said that the press couldn't believe that someone was coming all the way over from America to watch the game (supporting us and hoping for a win)
How on earth would they know without someone telling them ??
I didn't tell my local Suffolk press that I was attending the match and got no publicity at all.

The club told them after I rang up the travel club and got a ticket .
I had the evening standard daily mail and LWT ring me up in the US,there were some articles apparently but I never saw them .

On the back of the LWT Interview I rang up Virgin and told them I would wear a Virgin shirt if they paid my airfare which they declined so I shelled out about 450 quid to get home via BA ,when I got home my old man gave me 20 quid to buy a drink ,told him to keep it and put it arsenal to win 2-0 @ 16-1 ,I then gave him 50 for Arsenal to win the league @ 8-1 which he did . Next Day went to pick up the winnings and the Manager who knew my old man but not me came up to the counter wearing a gold spurs cockerel round his neck ,when I gave him the ticket he started laughing and opened a bottle of shampoo which the three of us shared ,class work from a Spurs fan !
Went back on the Sunday after an all day Saturday in the Pubs around the ground and the Thornhill !
All in all a great trip !

[StuartL]

Just something that I have been wondering at Herd.

you said that the press couldn't believe that someone was coming all the way over from America to watch the game (supporting us and hoping for a win)
How on earth would they know without someone telling them ??
I didn't tell my local Suffolk press that I was attending the match and got no publicity at all.

The club told them after I rang up the travel club and got a ticket .
I had the evening standard daily mail and LWT ring me up in the US,there were some articles apparently but I never saw them .

On the back of the LWT Interview I rang up Virgin and told them I would wear a Virgin shirt if they paid my airfare which they declined so I shelled out about 450 quid to get home via BA ,when I got home my old man gave me 20 quid to buy a drink ,told him to keep it and put it arsenal to win 2-0 @ 16-1 ,I then gave him 50 for Arsenal to win the league @ 8-1 which he did . Next Day went to pick up the winnings and the Manager who knew my old man but not me came up to the counter wearing a gold spurs cockerel round his neck ,when I gave him the ticket he started laughing and opened a bottle of shampoo which the three of us shared ,class work from a Spurs fan !
Went back on the Sunday after an all day Saturday in the Pubs around the ground and the Thornhill !
All in all a great trip !

Glad all 3 of you had the same hair type.

So the club gave out your personal details without your knowledge or consent, to various media companies - haven't they heard of the data protection act ?

How come there were spare tickets floating about anyway ? The match wasoriginally due to be played in April and tickets had already been sold and distributed out for Arsenal's allocation( with the original date on it) i doubt if the scousers would have given us any more.

So do the club hold some back for ex players, sportsmen and celebrity hooligans?

[olgitgooner]

I think Herd is totally legit.

If he could invent all the stuff he's posted here, then he has wasted his talents. And ought to be up there with that Harry Potter woman.

Back to subject.....Anfield 1989 was...well....emotional. I watched it at home. My young daughters couldn't really understand dad's weird behaviour (they weren't old enough to be proper Gooners) but they understood one thing. Dad was an REALLY happy bunny when THAT goal was scored. And he didn't even feel pain when the fist hit the ceiling. We hugged and danced around for ages. Beautiful memory.

[DB10GOONER]

Just something that I have been wondering at Herd.

you said that the press couldn't believe that someone was coming all the way over from America to watch the game (supporting us and hoping for a win)
How on earth would they know without someone telling them ??
I didn't tell my local Suffolk press that I was attending the match and got no publicity at all.

The club told them after I rang up the travel club and got a ticket .
I had the evening standard daily mail and LWT ring me up in the US,there were some articles apparently but I never saw them .

On the back of the LWT Interview I rang up Virgin and told them I would wear a Virgin shirt if they paid my airfare which they declined so I shelled out about 450 quid to get home via BA ,when I got home my old man gave me 20 quid to buy a drink ,told him to keep it and put it arsenal to win 2-0 @ 16-1 ,I then gave him 50 for Arsenal to win the league @ 8-1 which he did . Next Day went to pick up the winnings and the Manager who knew my old man but not me came up to the counter wearing a gold spurs cockerel round his neck ,when I gave him the ticket he started laughing and opened a bottle of shampoo which the three of us shared ,class work from a Spurs fan !
Went back on the Sunday after an all day Saturday in the Pubs around the ground and the Thornhill !
All in all a great trip !

I actually watched the game in Moscow. I had been asked by the KGB to fly in with Bill Clinton, then only a rising star in the American political firmament, but a man with inside knowledge of what would be a stupendous game of football at Anfield, this due to his wife once knowing a girl that had a cousin who lived in Islington and had seen Tony Adams drive by the stadium one day. Well, what a lark in Moscow! After we won, Bill flew me and a couple of KGB operatives back to Liverpool where we larged it up all night with the Arsenal team! I then had to fly Bill home as he was proper pissed and wanted to fight Niall Quinn because Quinn’s auntie had named her second child after George Bush Snr.

Again, the difference. Anyone spot it? Anyone?

[LDB]

Just something that I have been wondering at Herd.

you said that the press couldn't believe that someone was coming all the way over from America to watch the game (supporting us and hoping for a win)
How on earth would they know without someone telling them ??
I didn't tell my local Suffolk press that I was attending the match and got no publicity at all.

The club told them after I rang up the travel club and got a ticket .
I had the evening standard daily mail and LWT ring me up in the US,there were some articles apparently but I never saw them .

On the back of the LWT Interview I rang up Virgin and told them I would wear a Virgin shirt if they paid my airfare which they declined so I shelled out about 450 quid to get home via BA ,when I got home my old man gave me 20 quid to buy a drink ,told him to keep it and put it arsenal to win 2-0 @ 16-1 ,I then gave him 50 for Arsenal to win the league @ 8-1 which he did . Next Day went to pick up the winnings and the Manager who knew my old man but not me came up to the counter wearing a gold spurs cockerel round his neck ,when I gave him the ticket he started laughing and opened a bottle of shampoo which the three of us shared ,class work from a Spurs fan !
Went back on the Sunday after an all day Saturday in the Pubs around the ground and the Thornhill !
All in all a great trip !

I actually watched the game in Moscow. I had been asked by the KGB to fly in with Bill Clinton, then only a rising star in the American political firmament, but a man with inside knowledge of what would be a stupendous game of football at Anfield, this due to his wife once knowing a girl that had a cousin who lived in Islington and had seen Tony Adams drive by the stadium one day. Well, what a lark in Moscow! After we won, Bill flew me and a couple of KGB operatives back to Liverpool where we larged it up all night with the Arsenal team! I then had to fly Bill home as he was proper pissed and wanted to fight Niall Quinn because Quinn’s auntie had named her second child after George Bush Snr.

Again, the difference. Anyone spot it? Anyone?

Your story sounds more believable?