1989/90 Football League Season Review

[@thelucy53]

Thank you for this upload, this was when football was amazing, always close and not all about the money.

[@VideotapeFTW]

You're welcome - always glad to bring back happy memories. I certainly enjoyed the game a lot more back then!

[@DJTwenty2020]

And it had ALOT more homegrown English players playing!

[@davidjoshuamakaya4704]

You're welcome,that's was also closed hit on post of the championship game.

[@matthewturner2803]

Iconic music and brings back memories of my childhood. Thank you.

[@pooltony]

Love the music in the background, great soundtrack. Used to love Sunday afternoon with my dad watching the Big Match Live, and was a treat when they also showed midweek matches live near the end of the season!

[@matthewturner2803]

Me too. Used to watch every match I could, even if I didn't like the teams!

[@calebodin518]

I know im randomly asking but does anybody know a method to get back into an instagram account?? I was stupid lost the login password. I appreciate any assistance you can give me!

[@javiontadeo7407]

@Caleb Odin instablaster ;)

[@Gare80]

Thanks for the upload. I remember 1989/90 very well even to this day. Thanks again.

[@VideotapeFTW]

You're very welcome - glad you enjoyed it! It's a season that's stuck in my mind, too, for one reason or another.

[@davidjoshuamakaya4704]

You're welcome, and merry Xmas to you and all of the them. I enjoyed the day. I want them all together get team support of the championship game of football and scores doubleheader goalscorer as they're amazing day with the footballer shoot as scored.

[@JMKOWL]

Really hate how sky completely forget about anything regarding the league pre 1992. 88-92 were my first memories of football so will always have a soft spot for that era.

[@VideotapeFTW]

+JMKOWL Never a truer word spoken! All this Jamie Vardy record stuff at the moment... Great achievement to match the Premier League record, but why stop at that imaginary line in the sand? Only now have the media started talking about Stan Mortenson et al.

[@JMKOWL]

+VideotapeFTW Spot on!

[@PeaveyPV20]

Thanks for this. Back in the days when bulk of top flight players were english

[@VideotapeFTW]

You're welcome! Hard to believe how much football changed over the next decade or so...

[@PeaveyPV20]

VideotapeFTW for the better and worse. More players from uk and ireland even in 90s and odd hotshot from abroad but on other hand you had crumbling ancient stadiums

[@VideotapeFTW]

PeaveyPV20 Ah, yes... Remember the weird shadows cast across all the pitches in the mid-90s caused by cranes and scaffolding and all that? (Brilliantly lampooned on Fantasy Football League when they "redeveloped" the "kitchen end".) It's surprising just how small some stadiums were before all the building work was done.

[@davidjoshuamakaya4704]

Damn!!!

[@saiidabdulbaqi5015]

I remember this season really well. I was 11-12 and it was a nail-biting head to head finish. I thought Liverpool would win the title throughout the 90s

[@ebbetheman5030]

Thanks for the upload mate ;)

[@ewilliams370]

loved this season. can anyone remember the video tapes that were out at the time of the reviews of the season. I used to have a good collection as a teenager of these trying to trace them. They were made by "world sports action" narrated by jim Rosenthal. they also did specific team reviews and "goals galore.would love to own them again!. I still like football now but I used to love football then! more characters, better atmosphere,better commentators and still a man,s game back then.just a bunch of kids that play it now.

[@VideotapeFTW]

I remember those tapes well! I had a couple, but never Goals Galore, which I regret. I was my school team's goalkeeper at the time, so I was probably the only person in the country to actually buy Saves Galore. What a strange child I was... ;-) (By the way, a very quick eBay search turned up a few - could be worth investigating.)

[@ewilliams370]

VideotapeFTW thanks for replying. No, you were not the only one who bought saves galore. My still best mate who still plays in goal for pub sides always had this and used to make me watch it. His favourite goalie was John Lukic!!?? lol! thanks I will look on ebay.

[@VideotapeFTW]

Well thank goodness for that - I'm not quite as odd as I thought! I'm not sure who my favourite keeper was at the time, but it certainly wasn't Lukic. There were quite a few "eccentrics" in that era (Grobbelaar, Beasant, Leighton, Dibble...)

[@leechipper8427]

I've still got Race for the Championship 88/89, 89/90 & 91/92 on VHS. And Goals & Saves Galore from the 89/90 season, i just can't bring myself to throw them away.

[@javiergomez9970]

There's Gary Lineker at 9.15

[@TGA2011Oficial]

The song in background is War, of Rocky IV

[@aldhous]

This really was the golden season. Brian Moore, Alan Parry, Martin Tyler, Elton Welsby, and more importantly, no sign of Clive Tyldesley (although I seem to remember him doing some reports on Saint & Greavsie). Where did you get the vid from btw? I've got the Race For The Championship which is obviously a 1hr version of this, but there are some goals on here not shown on that. And it's good to remind ourselves (at 9:51) that Peter Reid has always been 65, even in 1990 when he was 33.

[@geourgiou]

superb upload, thanks. i really miss the old first division and fta top flight. sky and bt have killed football. remember saint greavsie, they where the godfathers of football, what do you have nowadays, dan walker and jeff sterling. pathetic.

[@VideotapeFTW]

+john malakos You're very welcome - glad you enjoyed it. We really have gone from the extreme of not enough football on the telly to there being too much, and over-hyped and over-analysed at that.

[@pudlah]

thanks for uploading...the 7 could be Nicky Tanner?

[@mrkipling2201]

2 seasons later and football would die a death as we knew it. TBH I don’t watch football now because it’s just totally unrecognisable from the sport I fell in love with. I mean you can’t even tackle now it’s a joke and as for going to a game forget it with the price and availability of tickets not that I would want to

[@VideotapeFTW]

@navieedful I'm afraid I haven't got anything from as far back as 86/7, but if I come across anything from 88/9, I'll upload it. I'm not certain I do, though.

[@davejones542]

love the shorts

[@VideotapeFTW]

Not as good as Elton's glasses at the beginning, though. ;-)

[@wobblertv8083]

Remember villa destroying Everton .Platt was outstanding in that game .

[@mrkipling2201]

Pretty apt that villa were challenging for the title in 89/90 seeing as they were champions of the first full season of the 80’s.

[@chrisamy1871]

They could have cleaned the window behind Elton Welbsy!

[@VideotapeFTW]

@pudlah You are absolutely right. Mystery solved. I genuinely thought Tanner didn't get his debut until the Souness era, yet he actually played in a title-winning season...

[@VideotapeFTW]

That's what I miss these days - commentators who get genuinely excited to see a good goal. :-) They're all about giving statistics or finding special significances these days, rather than just enjoying the game for what it is.

[@VideotapeFTW]

Gordon Cowans is another one who always looked like he was perpetually in his mid-50s. Nowadays the Premier League is full of Raheem Sterling-like youngsters who look about 12. I can't tell you how old it makes me feel! As for the vid, I found it on an old tape. It was shown after the Littlewoods Cup Final, which I recorded and subsequently wiped, but this little nugget somehow survived all these years. I remember this as a great season, too - I bet your Race for the Championship is great!

[@aldhous]

3:12 Derek Mountfield CLEARLY onside!

[@VideotapeFTW]

I know what you mean - I feel the same way about Elton Welsby's glasses...

[@geourgiou]

i remember this, it was after the 1990 littlewoods cup final, im an arsenal supporter, was so devastated losing to man utd 4-1, but it was great viewing watching football in that era.

[@VideotapeFTW]

+john malakos That's right - it's from the day Nottingham Forest beat Oldham at Wembley. I doubt the title will be sealed before the League Cup Final this year! I'm not an Arsenal fan, but I associate this season with them having the mother of all hangovers. I think 88/89 really took it out of them, and they just didn't perform. Still, they won the thing the next year...

[@geourgiou]

tell you what, nowadays people will talk of man citys title win in 2012, which ranks as the greatest finish of all time? wrong, for me it was may 89, when i jumped for joy at my team arsenal, clinching the most memorable title of all time, its because both sides were competing amongs each other and the last game of that season. forget citys title win in 2012.

[@VideotapeFTW]

+john malakos Ah, but that was before the Premier League, so it doesn't count any more. ;-) In fact, England winning the World Cup is just about the only pre-1992 football Sky acknowledges these days!

[@geourgiou]

yes true mate, you cannot mention old classic footie on sky, doesnt count for sky, even the sky commetators dont mention that memorable night in anfield, in 89, it saddens me.

[@VideotapeFTW]

+john malakos In 100 years' time there will be more evidence of Robin Hood's existence than of football before the Premier League, if Sky have their way! The funny thing is that as I was watching that Man City match you mention, as the chance opened up, even before Aguero shot, the line "It's up for grabs here" popped into my head. Shows what an impression it made on me. Good old Brian Moore.

[@omarmirza5676]

What is the tune called from this montage please I used to love it!!! Proper football too

[@thegriz1978]

It is “War” from the Rocky IV soundtrack

[@MultiVince95]

Great video

[@cohenkane2148]

A Yank listening to Martin Tyler today sounds the same as this. Am I tripping? Holy sheeeit

[@mrkipling2201]

It’s the very same. He was commentating in the Granada region in the early 80’s and was an ITV commentator until Sky got the rights to the Premier league for the 1992/93 season.

[@pudlah]

@VideotapeFTW liverpool players on that day: Grobbelaar, Hysen, Burrows, Staunton, Whelan, Hansen, Tanner (Ablett 82), Rosenthal, Rush, Barnes, McMahon

[@olayinkaamara385]

The end of the Liverpool dynasty as we knew, they've never truly recovered. People give Souness a lot of stick for this but Dalglish deserves some of the blame, some of his last signings were questionable and some of the players who came into the team from the youth set-up whilst he was manager towards the end of his reign weren't good enough. Manchester United are currently going through a similar phase.

[@VideotapeFTW]

I know what you mean. I can't wait until this "financial fair play" thing really kicks in - although I suspect some highly creative accounting may mean it makes little difference in the long run...

[@VideotapeFTW]

This is the year Arsenal went all strange, isn't it? They won the League a year either side, but this season they seemed to have a massive hangover. Seriously - *Tony Cascarino* of all strikers holding their entire back four at bay, and then getting done on the overlap by *Chris Price*. That's not the George Graham defence we all know and love (or love to hate)!

[@VideotapeFTW]

He was probably thinking, 'With this cool look, how can I possibly fail to be the face of English football for decades to come?' ;-)

[@chris10468]

Your right on

[@VideotapeFTW]

Yep, Gordon Cowans. To be fair, I don't think David Platt had played competitively for England at the point this was made.

[@VideotapeFTW]

I can't believe Chelsea had only just been promoted! Or Everton were the early-season pace-setters. Or Tony Daley's hair...

[@VideotapeFTW]

@pudlah Hmm... well, the hairdo and the fact that he's wearing number seven suggest not, but then again he was at the club at the time. After a quick Google, it seems that Tanner made three appearances that season, nothing says which matches. More research needed! Good shout. :-)

[@Appers]

My favourite part is that it opens with Webb scoring for Man U. Never again would a Webb help that club out...

[@navieedful]

@VideotapeFTW hey man can you upload 86-87 and 88-89 seasons too it will be great to watch :)

[@eddielasowsky7777]

Alan Hansen said it, anyone saying this was theyre last league title as of 2014 back then wouldve been laughed at. But you could see that the necessary quality of player was not being brought in anymore to replace the ageing team. David Speedie, Jimmy Carter, Paul Stewart would be brought in not long after this. The rest is history.

[@VideotapeFTW]

It's difficult to see how it all went so wrong so quickly. The team was ageing, but by no means over the hill, and they still managed to play some vintage football the next season and finish second. I suppose some bad buys (Jimmy Carter, Istvan Kozma) along with some underachieving signings (Paul Stewart, who was actually pretty decent at Spurs, Nigel Clough) and selling too many too soon once Souness came in (Peter Beardsley, Ray Houghton)... Could it be that simple?

[@eddielasowsky7777]

VideotapeFTW You can't underestimate Hillsborough. Kenny had been under tremendous emotional pressure. Had he stayed he may well have rebuilt again, but the next season he left causing the club to bring in Souness. Reading some of the players who played for Souness it sounded like he disregarded a lot of the training principles that had served them well up to then, and adopted Italian methods. Basically this was lots and lots of running right at the start of pre season training. This apparently caused alot of muscle strains and caused players to miss the beginning of the season. Souness himself reckoned that there were too many players who were up for contract renewal and because they were 28/29 years old they wanted long deals and he didnt want to be stuck with a core team 3 years down the line who were well past their best. I do feel that like Moyes he was brought in and was given an impossible job, yet just around the corner he had fowler, Macmanaman, Rob Jones, Jamie Redknapp. Look at United, win the league then next season the same squad finish 7th. Now theyre having to spend millions just to get back in the top 4.

[@VideotapeFTW]

eddie lasowsky Yeah, I've heard about Souness and his training regimes. Didn't he also demolish the famous boot room, also throwing away decades of proven success in the process? I suppose maybe that really is it - too much changed too quickly.

[@eddielasowsky7777]

VideotapeFTW Mind you it took us a couple of seasons for Liverpool to be truly horrible, United seemed to collapse in 4 months.

[@VideotapeFTW]

eddie lasowsky Well, there's no doubt which one's been funnier, I'll grant you that! But actually I think Man Utd have been on the slide for a while - certainly their last title-winning side was (player for player) one of the worst title-winning sides in decades, and I've no idea how they won it. I'd even go as far to say that their last Champions League-winning side wasn't a patch on some of their teams from the 90s. Just my opinion, of course.

[@chris10468]

I can't belive Chelsea wore red back then I hope Charlton come back to the Premier League

[@VideotapeFTW]

I used to like him, too. I think when Sky came along and took the Premier League rights, he ended up back in local TV/radio. Pity. I think I'd have taken him over Richard Keys any day.

[@AriaGray2016]

are you able to re-upload the italia 90 bbc review show, it seems to be blocked now

[@aldhous]

10:38 Ha ha, I wonder what football pundit Nigel Winterburn would say about Arsenal number 3 Nigel Winterburn's defending here! Dreadful. A poor tackle, a trot back and... 'oh look, there's Chris Price steaming past me. Never mind...'

[@Tom85AVFC]

Why do I still find this painful to watch 23 years later?

[@cahalboyd]

Can someone please tell me what is the music they're using inbetween games? I recognise it from somewhere, it's driving me mad!!

[@ozzielfc1568]

Rocky 4

[@VideotapeFTW]

But Tony Adams had his arm up in the air so he *must* have been offside... ;-)

[@mrkipling2201]

Much as I hate to admit it Liverpool had some team then.

[@InBeileinWeTrust]

Who is the guy with the stache at 13:10?

[@EuropeanTourism]

The state of the pitch at Forest!!! So not the beautiful game played on that surface.

[@GavinWoods]

In fairness, Forest and Liverpool still served up a good game that day.

[@aldhous]

Sorry, yeah, I hadn't considered that at all. That's conclusive then - NO GOAL. Typical Villa cheats.

[@satnamsinghgill9932]

Dude please reply to message on vital remas post about scripting?? Thanks

[@mrmister102]

the last time liverpool won the championship,never will they win it again in my lifetime

[@VideotapeFTW]

RIP mrmister102 , ???? - 2020, taken too soon. A tragic loss to comment sections everywhere.