Can't football go back to this.....I can't stand the wall to wall, 24/7 saturation these days, as a fan. I'm not asking for much, surely, this isn't jumpers for goalposts, it's 1990, 'modern' enough.
wow i remember this season. my stepdad took me United v Luton. We saw a young Ryan Giggs and won 5-0 if my memory serves me. McClair played cant remember much else was too young. Is this the last season Liverpool won it? I guess so.
Oddly enough, this is one of my favourite Youtube vids. Pure nostalgic reasons. Cov 10th in the top league, we're now rooted to the bottom of the Championship. Life eh?
I noticed that Bob Wilson cocked up with the top half of the forth division by mentioning Colchester woes twice. Good to see the old BBC graphics though :-)
Of the 1st division half the teams from 1990 are still in the Top Flight Liverpool, Aston Villa, Tottenham, Everton, Arsenal, Chelsea, Norwich, QPR, Man Utd and Man City
@SBOWsteffan Yeah and the list of teams that have always been in the premiership is even shorter. This year I can see Villa really struggling to keep that record though.
@SBOWsteffan Yeah and the list of teams that have always been in the premiership is even shorter. This year I can see Villa really struggling to keep that record though.
SKY has changed football for the worst in my opinion.Millionaire's running around who are out of touch with the average fan,over priced tickets,games spread out over the weekend with different kick off times,clubs buying the title,the premiership full of teams with sugar daddys but no great tradition while great clubs like leeds,forest,wed,ipswich,west ham and southampton struggle.
1st year of 2 back to back promotions for Grimsby, those were the days 17000 for the final home game of the season against Wrexham when a gary Birtles hattrick secured promotion, how different now!
Grandstand may have gone but you can still watch final score and the league tables are hard to follow on a Saturday teatime in 2011 beacuse of the reasons described in my earlier post
The difference between April 1990 all the matches except the one sunday tv game have been played and it's Divisions 1, 2, 3 and 4 but in 2011 the parping Premier League and Money Money Money SKY ruin everything with matches spread over the weekend with 12.45 and 5.30 kick offs on Saturday and 1.30 and 4.00 kick offs on Sunday with a 8.00 kick off on the Monday and with UEFA playing their Europa League on Thursday Nights more Sunday matches after European weeks
People may say good old days purely on where their team was then, and where they are now. I bet supporters of teams like Fulham, Wolves, Birmingham and Blackpool would beg to differ.
I was 6 years old nearly 7 during this time and remember having pork chop, chips and gravy for my tea whilst watching Grandstand, maybe we're very lucky to have all witnessed this part of football. I know when you are young and its new then everything is special but this part of football is something else, this represented 100% football supporters, majority working class lads and to all of you i say "those were the days".
I can hardly be bothered with the hysterical coverage of football today. As far as i'm concerned this is definitive of football on a Saturday at 5pm. 'Thats the way it is' in the background, those were the days. I was 12 when this broadcast I feel im getting a bit teary, nostalgic and old :D
Back in the days when football was interesting lol! Now in Scotland it's Rangers and Celtic first and second (vice versa), and in England it's Man U and Chelsea first and second (vice versa) throughout the fecking season!
Great memories, thanks for uploading this! The music brings back so many memories, for ages I just thought it was Grandstand music, didn't know it was an actual song!!
@dpinzow Yeah i've got a video on it Millwall could have won the league the way they started the season Teddy Sheringham played for them back then aswell i must upload it it's the 1989 1st division all the games.
Luton in the bottom 3....................then they will avoid relegation on the last day like they always used to back in the 1980s & early 90s - until they finally got their comeuppance in 1992.
@Hypersonic94returns what are you talking about man, that's the best part of it. The table from the same time the year after makes for enjoyable viewing too.
oh dear. grim days for Cardiff City - in the relegation places, and on their way to Division 4 for a couple of years. Still good to see old Grandstand again - shame the music was cut off.
how times change for the current premier league line up liverpool were the team back then now they are getting dragged through the mud by hicks and gillett, both man utd and man city were well down the table, villa were challenging for the title, spurs were ahead of arsenal, newcastle, west ham, wolves, west brom and blackburn were in the old 2nd division fulham, bolton, blackpool and birmingham were in the old division 2 and stoke were relegated
aaaaahhh those were the days, man as a villan i cud almost smell that title. and where the fect were man ure - altogether now, "goin down m'lord,goin down..."
Oldham Athletic 9th...oh man the days. We drew with man Utd in the FA semi 3-3, before losing the replay 2-1, unfairly i might add (goalline tech??) We got promoted by winning that league the year after in '91. I loved the theme tune in the background it always gave me goosebumps. Todays theme tune/format alas... does not.
@zander469 yes, if that Nicky Henry goal had been allowed, Ferguson would almost certainly have been sacked and the last 20 years would have been very diferent.
@southsea1984 Man Utd would have still been as successful even if Alex Ferguson had got sacked cos the Premier League is all about money in Division 1 Alex Ferguson struggled he's always just been a figurehead Man Utd with or without him would still be in the top 4 cos most of their fans now are foreign fakers who just wanna see a football match.
@AstonVilla82thebest I can honestly say i have never in all my years read a more ridiculous ignorant comment regarding Alex Ferguson. It astounds me how a person who presumably watches football, can have such a bad understanding of it, and the people within it. You ignorant uneducated pea brain muppet. That's as kind as i can be. (and I'm not a United fan)
@walka112 I love how people put after a comment i'm not a United fan like they're in the right Alex Ferguson is never as good as Brian Clough, Clough won the European Cup back to back the league table is stupid nowadays are you telling me that if Ferguson retired Man Utd would finish outside the top 4 it doesn't make a difference as they have the refs on their side when they begin to struggle cos they are richer than other clubs.
@AstonVilla82thebest mate, let me be crystal clear. Firstly, I stated I wasn't a united fan in order to point out that I am not looking at the situation through red coloured glasses, and secondly, the impression you gave was not that if Ferguson stepped down- rather that his being there in the first place made no difference to their near two decade dominance of the English game. You say it's because they're rich. But they EARNED their riches thru WINNING again and again and again!
@AstonVilla82thebest Furthermore, I haven't noticed any sugar daddies coming in to boost united's wealth. Quite the contrary, their owners have actually handicapped their spending and yet they still remain a major force.I think it's you looking at it thru ANTI united glasses. And remember, Ferguson, aside from making team after team to dominate the English game, STILL remains the last person to have broken the Old Firm grip on Scottish football, and won in Europe while there also. Cop on mate!
@walka112 I'm not anti United i much prefer them to Liverpool, Chelsea, i'm just saying they would've had success anyway with or without Ferguson whether that be more or less though we'll never know and when do you see Ferguson plan tactics like the supposed genius that he has all he does is chew chewing gum has a go at Mike Phelan if he gets a substitution wrong & moans when decisions don't go his way but he doesn't mind when the opposition are on the receiving end of it.
Just to think 20 years ago Fulham were 17th in the old 3rd Division (League One) now they're in European Finals.
Odd seeing all these now Premiership teams in the lower leagues (especially Burnley) shows you how much has changed.
Wouldn't surprise me if in 2030 it's all changed again and teams from League One/Two are up there. Although, with the increasing change and money influence, it might be near impossible.
fulham in 17th in division three and look where they are now in division 1 in the UEFA (europa) cup final its teams like that that deserve to win the premier league not man utd or chelsea from a aston villa fan see this is why theirs so many man united haters cos they don"t deserve it
aaah old skool final score footy results, accompanied by a bit a Bruce Hornsby & the range!! id ave just come back in after avin a game myself just in time for this back in the day after watchin football focus & saint & greavsie when itv had the footy rights & Liverpool were gunna be 1st division champs!!!! boo haha
@andrewt008 you remember the old vidiprinter aswell every saturday from 4;45 pm, also was a great year I remember Liverpool beating QPR the following week to take the title, I never thought this'd be the last time though
@Moss235 fuckin vidiprinter haha! u could hear it makin noise in the background as well like morse code or summat!? i used 2 like watchin the results on itv as well with the legend that was Elton Welsby! you used to get the goals from maybe 1 yes 1 game with Martin Tyler commentating! This was the time of the big match on a sun atfernoon on itv.
@andrewt008 Yes with Brian Moore and Jimmy Greaves in the commentary box, Des used to do Grandstand aswell along with Steve Rider. Liverpool used to feature regularly on The Match, I used to spend all morning nervously hoping they wouldn't get beat, these days I dont worry as much yet they lose far more than they did then
@Moss235 & also sometimes co commentators Ron Atkinson, Ian St John as well. Also Alan Parry commentating on games before he went to sky! & Bob Wilson did Grandstand inc football focus with Emlyn Hughes! & it was "on the ball" on itv with t'old Jim Rosenthal this was before it became S&G!
Ahh, the days before money grabbing Arabs, and Russian Tycoons pumped millions upon millions of pounds into clubs to make the league unfair . Thanks for posting this
Oxford United at the second tier? damn :L ... and as a Swansea City fan, i looked at this and laughed. can you see why? take another look at Division 3. :')
with the exception of last saturday (boat race) and this weekend (grand national), saturday afternoons on the bbc are shit now. Grandstand should never have been taken off the air.
and i love the music here, the way it is by bruce hornsby and the range, loads better than what they had before it, jan hammer's crockets theme.
wow, QPR-back in the days when they were a decent side.Norwich City Southampton and Coventry in the top 10 of 1st division.This is so ancient history.
@anish81 I love this table Villa are way above Man United, Chelsea, Arsenal, & only had to overcome the mighty Liverpool which they didn't both teams were amazing and are now suffering cos of money & the Premier League i say "BRING BACK THE OLD DIVISION 1 & 2" where anyone could win it.
@AstonVilla82thebest "BRING BACK THE OLD DIVISION 1 & 2" where anyone could win it --- Really? After Villa's last title in 1981, only Liverpool, Arsenal and Everton won the title up until 1992. A decade where only 3 clubs won the title. Just like the last decade of the Premier league.
And twenty years after we came back up, Darlo are heading back down and out of the league. Administration really kicked the hell out of us last year. This time I doubt we'll be back for a long time. Mind you, our fall isn't as heavy as Luton's. Christ footie has really changed.
It'll be tough, but Darlo have a good chairman (well, better than George Reynolds) and a great ground - more like a Championship than non-league venue.
I think that you'll be back in the league by 2012 at the latest and hopefully the Championship one day, as you have the infrastructure in place - just need money and players who believe and will fight for the team. That Purcell looks a good buy, try and keep hold of him!
I love this because of the simple fact that Sheffield Wednesday went down in this year. Seeing grown men cry on the Hillsborough Kop still cheers me up!
Iam sorry this might sound crazy but I just sat about 30 minutes emotional with sadness. They will demolish Anfield.
I have respect for community projects and dont want seem impolite to those involved in them but they will need continued funding or in 5-10 years will break down.
I hope your government will help them.
Otherwise 12 years time walk along anfield road L4 OTH.
Sorry Gabby Logan and Jeff Stelling, but you will never be up to the standards of this era of BBC Grandstand with Bob Wilson or David Coleman with cool and simple league table graphics and "The Way It Is" playing gently in the background. I think it might have something to do with having 3 or 4 idiots sitting in a studio watching games on TV monitors that the audience can't watch and being asked questions like "So....Paul Merson...what's going on at Blackburn vs Wigan?"
Oxford United and Maidstone United as league clubs there and Merthyr Tydfill and Runcorn in the conference, Runcorn don't even exsist anymore, this is a blast from the past
Ah, don't remind me about Souness! He really was a disaster, yet at the time it seemed a good idea to make him manager and it took them seasons to recover.
Souness destroyed Liverpool when he took over. His signings were a disaster. Liverpool's board also dropped the ball by not expanding Anfield or moving to a new stadium back then. It allowed Man Utd to surpass them on the pitch, and on the business side too.
The work on Liverpool's new stadium hasn't even begun yet due apparently to the "credit crunch". As far as I'm aware Anfield will be demolished and replaced with apartments and community projects. Personally I doubt the new stadium will be built at all as long as Hicks and Gillett are running the club.
2 years later man u won the prem , reason is alex fergie in charge which means and referees are a round, which mean alex fergis watch comes in to the game more
Remember being at Hillsborough on the last day of this season as we got relegated. Horrible memories. Man Utd below Wimbledon, difficult to believe now such a thing could happen.
You're so right! This was the season that Colchester were relegated from the league into the Conference. I remember it well, the company I worked for organised a general knowledge quiz in April 1990 and we entered a team called "Colchester Untied". We won the quiz! Thanks for bringing back this memory, yours sincerely, Gus from Colchester.
It's incredible to think that just two years after winning Division Two, Leeds were Division One champions. Could anyone possibly imagine this happening again? I can't. Let's say West Brom win the Coca Cola Championship, what are the chances they will be 2012 Premiership winners? No chance at all. Football has changed, and not necessarily for the better.
It's a shame Leeds didn't keep Cantona. These days, football is crap. Pompey and Palace are fucked, Leeds in the third tier, Liverpool owned by two shitbergs, Glazers dumping debt onto Man U. Chelsea and Man City used as playthings for billionaires. Richard fucking Keys. Chris Kamara still employed. Our leagues don't even have proper names anymore. "Division 1, 2, 3, 4" made sense. Now we've got "The Premiership, the Championship, League One, and League Two?" It's fucking shite!!!
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there are two words in this that trigger a massive quantity of nostalgia glee. These are "Vauxhall" and "Conference"
afuzzyduck 22 hours ago
there are two words in this that trigger a massive quantity of nostalgia glee. These are "Vauxhall" and "Conference"
afuzzyduck 22 hours ago
Football IMO needed a 'break' from the Heysel/Hillsborough 80s...but what's wrong with this? This is fucking great
whipchorus 6 days ago
Can't football go back to this.....I can't stand the wall to wall, 24/7 saturation these days, as a fan. I'm not asking for much, surely, this isn't jumpers for goalposts, it's 1990, 'modern' enough.
whipchorus 6 days ago
Bloody hell Luton have fallen by the wayside haven't they....
Not to mention Wimbledon.
andrew1984uk 1 week ago
colchester doomed, thats just the way it is
jamescooling 1 week ago
wow i remember this season. my stepdad took me United v Luton. We saw a young Ryan Giggs and won 5-0 if my memory serves me. McClair played cant remember much else was too young. Is this the last season Liverpool won it? I guess so.
BilboBaghead81 2 weeks ago
Liverpool fans may want to frame this picture it's something that won't happen for decades again!
grant160619 1 month ago
@grant160619 I'd never have believed it back then that this would be our last ever championship
Moss235 1 month ago
@grant160619 And Man utd fans claim this doesn't exist as football history wasn't invented until the Premiership was started
magyash 4 weeks ago
Oddly enough, this is one of my favourite Youtube vids. Pure nostalgic reasons. Cov 10th in the top league, we're now rooted to the bottom of the Championship. Life eh?
IamHeisenberg 1 month ago
And Luton edged Sheff Wed out by winning their last two games!
bigmickno9 2 months ago
I remember this music during Grandstand.
West Ham 7th in Division 2.
HammerLex77 2 months ago
Always beautiful to see a table without Stretford United in the top half...
bianchiisgod 2 months ago 4
The good old days. Such a shame that they are gone.
macphersonleedsunite 2 months ago
This was the year I was born and me team is Aston Villa.
AVFCsi02 2 months ago
wow thank you !!!
trickykid73 2 months ago
If anyone knows what that music is please post it !!
trickykid73 2 months ago
@trickykid73 The music is an arrangement of Bruce Hornsby and the Range - The Way It Is
andydowland 2 months ago
Villa 2 points off top! Get in!
tezzrexx 2 months ago
And now you're gonna believe us!!!! The Gas are going up! (As champions)
DanMona03 3 months ago
Sheffield United - 2nd in League Two Yay!!!!! It's brilliant seeing these tables back then and where everybody was!
LordHeath1972 3 months ago
Since the PL started there are only 7 teams who are still there from 1992
craigt1981 4 months ago
Those were the days! Liverpool top and man utd shit!!! All utd fans who became fans in 1993 should watch this
falmouth2011 4 months ago
@falmouth2011 as opposed to the liverpool fans who became fans in the 80s then...history is all you have nowdays.
fsdfsdfdsfdsfable 3 months ago
@fsdfsdfdsfdsfable or the 60s and 70s then cos we weren@t bad then either!!
falmouth2011 3 months ago
hahah, dont make it like this anymore, piano is legendary!!!
domEDLforever 4 months ago 4
I noticed that Bob Wilson cocked up with the top half of the forth division by mentioning Colchester woes twice. Good to see the old BBC graphics though :-)
djonshore 4 months ago
What a disgrace, that Fergie should be sacked from Man United.
mmaconachie 4 months ago
Of the 1st division half the teams from 1990 are still in the Top Flight Liverpool, Aston Villa, Tottenham, Everton, Arsenal, Chelsea, Norwich, QPR, Man Utd and Man City
SBOWsteffan 4 months ago
@SBOWsteffan Yeah and the list of teams that have always been in the premiership is even shorter. This year I can see Villa really struggling to keep that record though.
Barcrest 4 months ago
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@SBOWsteffan Yeah and the list of teams that have always been in the premiership is even shorter. This year I can see Villa really struggling to keep that record though.
Barcrest 4 months ago
SKY has changed football for the worst in my opinion.Millionaire's running around who are out of touch with the average fan,over priced tickets,games spread out over the weekend with different kick off times,clubs buying the title,the premiership full of teams with sugar daddys but no great tradition while great clubs like leeds,forest,wed,ipswich,west ham and southampton struggle.
jaysea32 4 months ago
Bristol Clubs bossing division 3
05marshalljw 5 months ago
I went to the Division 4 playoff final that year, Chesterfield vs Cambridge Utd. Cambridge won 1-0 with Dion Dublin scoring the goal.
OldSchoolRasslin 5 months ago
1st year of 2 back to back promotions for Grimsby, those were the days 17000 for the final home game of the season against Wrexham when a gary Birtles hattrick secured promotion, how different now!
mariner4ever 6 months ago
Grandstand may have gone but you can still watch final score and the league tables are hard to follow on a Saturday teatime in 2011 beacuse of the reasons described in my earlier post
darren2514fv 6 months ago
The difference between April 1990 all the matches except the one sunday tv game have been played and it's Divisions 1, 2, 3 and 4 but in 2011 the parping Premier League and Money Money Money SKY ruin everything with matches spread over the weekend with 12.45 and 5.30 kick offs on Saturday and 1.30 and 4.00 kick offs on Sunday with a 8.00 kick off on the Monday and with UEFA playing their Europa League on Thursday Nights more Sunday matches after European weeks
darren2514fv 6 months ago
poor old bob he sells newspapers these days outside fincley road staion
what ashame
vania1013 6 months ago
What happened to Celtic? Good grief
dalgetty 6 months ago
People may say good old days purely on where their team was then, and where they are now. I bet supporters of teams like Fulham, Wolves, Birmingham and Blackpool would beg to differ.
jbutton113 6 months ago
Back when football was working class.
wannagetupandjam 7 months ago
I was 6 years old nearly 7 during this time and remember having pork chop, chips and gravy for my tea whilst watching Grandstand, maybe we're very lucky to have all witnessed this part of football. I know when you are young and its new then everything is special but this part of football is something else, this represented 100% football supporters, majority working class lads and to all of you i say "those were the days".
LongevityMUFC 7 months ago 3
@LongevityMUFC What a dinner !
MrDORSETBOY 2 months ago
villa 2nd, i can always dream
villafan1469 8 months ago
@villafan1469 It all went horribly wrong for us from that point of the season!!
tomd2103 7 months ago
luton must be the biggest fallers - 20 years on and now in the conference.
think david pleat kept them going a bit longer than nature intended though - they should've gone down years before this point.
fsdfsdfdsfdsfable 8 months ago
I can hardly be bothered with the hysterical coverage of football today. As far as i'm concerned this is definitive of football on a Saturday at 5pm. 'Thats the way it is' in the background, those were the days. I was 12 when this broadcast I feel im getting a bit teary, nostalgic and old :D
armbar 8 months ago
Back in the days when football was interesting lol! Now in Scotland it's Rangers and Celtic first and second (vice versa), and in England it's Man U and Chelsea first and second (vice versa) throughout the fecking season!
dcanmore 9 months ago
Great memories, thanks for uploading this! The music brings back so many memories, for ages I just thought it was Grandstand music, didn't know it was an actual song!!
nemail99 9 months ago
dpinzow 9 months ago 3
@dpinzow Yeah i've got a video on it Millwall could have won the league the way they started the season Teddy Sheringham played for them back then aswell i must upload it it's the 1989 1st division all the games.
AstonVilla82thebest 9 months ago
@dpinzow AFC Wimbledon back in League 2,it only took 9 years
BadEggCymru 2 months ago
Maidstone Utd, I think they went bust a few years after this
Johnny1989a 10 months ago
It's like Premier Manager all over again.
RankedBeast 11 months ago
Well Bob Wilson sufficiently screwed that up, didn't he!
aldhous 11 months ago
Norwich 8th in the old division one!!
nathanhickton 11 months ago
My god! I remember watching this evry saturday after a delightful afternoon's shopping at Bilston market!
brandybuck1984 11 months ago
days of blackburn fighting against promotion from the old 2nd... we got in play offs every season for 5 years or somethin like that
paoloblanc 1 year ago
3 teams in the bottom half of division 3 are now premier league clubs so there is hope for everyone except brentford. lol
21centurynostradamus 1 year ago 2
Luton in the bottom 3....................then they will avoid relegation on the last day like they always used to back in the 1980s & early 90s - until they finally got their comeuppance in 1992.
Gare80 1 year ago
Luton Town :(
Scummy area full of cunts but still a shame to see how far they've fallen....
LOL @ Celtic being 4th in a two-horse race...some mega fail...
supahdupahguy81 1 year ago
Gay Because Enfield were at the bottom of the Confrence
Hypersonic94returns 1 year ago
@Hypersonic94returns what are you talking about man, that's the best part of it. The table from the same time the year after makes for enjoyable viewing too.
BORROVAN26 10 months ago
Quite a few 3rd division teams that are now in the top flight. Not all change is bad.
0TedMaul0 1 year ago
oh dear. grim days for Cardiff City - in the relegation places, and on their way to Division 4 for a couple of years. Still good to see old Grandstand again - shame the music was cut off.
regwelsh 1 year ago
Luton Town in the 1st Division. Happy days.
kerensasdad 1 year ago
Crikey, remember these days, when we (Birmingham) used to yo-yo between the old 2nd and 3rd divisions!
feltum 1 year ago
@feltum you were the West Bromwich Albion of those days as they yo-yo between the Championship and The Premier League
SBOWsteffan 10 months ago
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Bolton in Div 3 where they belong.
tw25rw 1 year ago
Ah. remember when liverpool were good, how times change
RockRedGenesis 1 year ago
we're 4 places lower right now in 20th..
tigercity72 1 year ago
liverpool top of the league...
won't be seeing that for the next few decades.
fsdfsdfdsfdsfable 1 year ago 2
What's the music called
Hypersonic94returns 1 year ago
@Hypersonic94returns
It's called That's The Way It Is by Bruce Hornsby
thisiswho2 1 year ago
Poor Enfield went down we should be in the football league
Hypersonic94returns 1 year ago
Yeah Wednesday went down
luvleylinzi 1 year ago
how times change for the current premier league line up liverpool were the team back then now they are getting dragged through the mud by hicks and gillett, both man utd and man city were well down the table, villa were challenging for the title, spurs were ahead of arsenal, newcastle, west ham, wolves, west brom and blackburn were in the old 2nd division fulham, bolton, blackpool and birmingham were in the old division 2 and stoke were relegated
SBOWsteffan 1 year ago
Derby still struggling near the bottom, nothing changes!
kingdaniel69 1 year ago
look at the welling!!!!!
nealg77 1 year ago
aaaaahhh those were the days, man as a villan i cud almost smell that title. and where the fect were man ure - altogether now, "goin down m'lord,goin down..."
drrrink00 1 year ago
Does anyone know what happened to both Sheffield clubs that season?
levisufc 1 year ago
Does anyway know what happened to Sheffield Wednesday that season?
levisufc 1 year ago
When football was football...Possibly the last year before inflated wages killed the game
psychonaut3 1 year ago
Oldham Athletic 9th...oh man the days. We drew with man Utd in the FA semi 3-3, before losing the replay 2-1, unfairly i might add (goalline tech??) We got promoted by winning that league the year after in '91. I loved the theme tune in the background it always gave me goosebumps. Todays theme tune/format alas... does not.
zander469 1 year ago 5
@zander469 yes, if that Nicky Henry goal had been allowed, Ferguson would almost certainly have been sacked and the last 20 years would have been very diferent.
southsea1984 1 year ago 8
@southsea1984 Man Utd would have still been as successful even if Alex Ferguson had got sacked cos the Premier League is all about money in Division 1 Alex Ferguson struggled he's always just been a figurehead Man Utd with or without him would still be in the top 4 cos most of their fans now are foreign fakers who just wanna see a football match.
AstonVilla82thebest 10 months ago
@AstonVilla82thebest I can honestly say i have never in all my years read a more ridiculous ignorant comment regarding Alex Ferguson. It astounds me how a person who presumably watches football, can have such a bad understanding of it, and the people within it. You ignorant uneducated pea brain muppet. That's as kind as i can be. (and I'm not a United fan)
walka112 10 months ago
@walka112 I love how people put after a comment i'm not a United fan like they're in the right Alex Ferguson is never as good as Brian Clough, Clough won the European Cup back to back the league table is stupid nowadays are you telling me that if Ferguson retired Man Utd would finish outside the top 4 it doesn't make a difference as they have the refs on their side when they begin to struggle cos they are richer than other clubs.
AstonVilla82thebest 10 months ago
@AstonVilla82thebest mate, let me be crystal clear. Firstly, I stated I wasn't a united fan in order to point out that I am not looking at the situation through red coloured glasses, and secondly, the impression you gave was not that if Ferguson stepped down- rather that his being there in the first place made no difference to their near two decade dominance of the English game. You say it's because they're rich. But they EARNED their riches thru WINNING again and again and again!
walka112 10 months ago
@AstonVilla82thebest Furthermore, I haven't noticed any sugar daddies coming in to boost united's wealth. Quite the contrary, their owners have actually handicapped their spending and yet they still remain a major force.I think it's you looking at it thru ANTI united glasses. And remember, Ferguson, aside from making team after team to dominate the English game, STILL remains the last person to have broken the Old Firm grip on Scottish football, and won in Europe while there also. Cop on mate!
walka112 10 months ago
@walka112 I'm not anti United i much prefer them to Liverpool, Chelsea, i'm just saying they would've had success anyway with or without Ferguson whether that be more or less though we'll never know and when do you see Ferguson plan tactics like the supposed genius that he has all he does is chew chewing gum has a go at Mike Phelan if he gets a substitution wrong & moans when decisions don't go his way but he doesn't mind when the opposition are on the receiving end of it.
AstonVilla82thebest 10 months ago
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zander469 1 year ago
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zander469 1 year ago
What is the font used in the graphics?
TimmyCorona1991 1 year ago
Waaaay up the blades!
Kozzy06 1 year ago
Blimey, Stoke already down with the Vale a dizzy 11th! Boo!
weaseltoothpaste 1 year ago
Blimey, Merthyr in the Conference...now they're in the Toolstation Western League!
MrAdamAlden 1 year ago 3
And those Leeds bastards came down and wrecked my town on the May bank holiday !
MrDORSETBOY 1 year ago
@MrDORSETBOY. What? Bournemouth?
macphersonleedsunite 2 months ago
@macphersonleedsunite Yes ! Sunny, sunny Bournemouth...........
MrDORSETBOY 2 months ago
@MrDORSETBOY Those great days in the now "championship. Hopefully back there soon.
magyash 4 weeks ago
Blades Glory Owls Down
zonemanwilf 1 year ago
WE ARE BRIGHTON
TruthandJusticeUK 1 year ago
Just to think 20 years ago Fulham were 17th in the old 3rd Division (League One) now they're in European Finals.
Odd seeing all these now Premiership teams in the lower leagues (especially Burnley) shows you how much has changed.
Wouldn't surprise me if in 2030 it's all changed again and teams from League One/Two are up there. Although, with the increasing change and money influence, it might be near impossible.
rtk316ytshooter94 1 year ago 3
Darlo win Conference, Wycombe 10th, Col U relegated, Celtic and Man U struggling!
RussWWFC 1 year ago 3
Swindon Town in the play-offs there...the future looked great after the Wembley win and then tragedy! :(
MrAdamAlden 1 year ago 4
Oxford, Maidstone Halifax and Scarborough. just look at them go!
arleckstheram17 1 year ago 3
@arleckstheram17 I agree, the sad thing is any club could follow them in the future!
MrAdamAlden 1 year ago 3
fulham in 17th in division three and look where they are now in division 1 in the UEFA (europa) cup final its teams like that that deserve to win the premier league not man utd or chelsea from a aston villa fan see this is why theirs so many man united haters cos they don"t deserve it
resilienceman 1 year ago
aaah old skool final score footy results, accompanied by a bit a Bruce Hornsby & the range!! id ave just come back in after avin a game myself just in time for this back in the day after watchin football focus & saint & greavsie when itv had the footy rights & Liverpool were gunna be 1st division champs!!!! boo haha
andrewt008 1 year ago
@andrewt008 you remember the old vidiprinter aswell every saturday from 4;45 pm, also was a great year I remember Liverpool beating QPR the following week to take the title, I never thought this'd be the last time though
Moss235 1 year ago
@Moss235 fuckin vidiprinter haha! u could hear it makin noise in the background as well like morse code or summat!? i used 2 like watchin the results on itv as well with the legend that was Elton Welsby! you used to get the goals from maybe 1 yes 1 game with Martin Tyler commentating! This was the time of the big match on a sun atfernoon on itv.
andrewt008 1 year ago
@andrewt008 Yes with Brian Moore and Jimmy Greaves in the commentary box, Des used to do Grandstand aswell along with Steve Rider. Liverpool used to feature regularly on The Match, I used to spend all morning nervously hoping they wouldn't get beat, these days I dont worry as much yet they lose far more than they did then
Moss235 1 year ago
@Moss235 & also sometimes co commentators Ron Atkinson, Ian St John as well. Also Alan Parry commentating on games before he went to sky! & Bob Wilson did Grandstand inc football focus with Emlyn Hughes! & it was "on the ball" on itv with t'old Jim Rosenthal this was before it became S&G!
andrewt008 1 year ago
Ahh, the days before money grabbing Arabs, and Russian Tycoons pumped millions upon millions of pounds into clubs to make the league unfair . Thanks for posting this
jrb1802uk 1 year ago 2
Oxford United at the second tier? damn :L ... and as a Swansea City fan, i looked at this and laughed. can you see why? take another look at Division 3. :')
Schniit 1 year ago
with the exception of last saturday (boat race) and this weekend (grand national), saturday afternoons on the bbc are shit now. Grandstand should never have been taken off the air.
and i love the music here, the way it is by bruce hornsby and the range, loads better than what they had before it, jan hammer's crockets theme.
Bring back Grandstand
Leediverify 1 year ago
wow, QPR-back in the days when they were a decent side.Norwich City Southampton and Coventry in the top 10 of 1st division.This is so ancient history.
y0utubemetube 1 year ago
Hahaha! Footie table with a tune...shame fucking Rangers did it like they did back then...(and this fucking season)...
ucla4eva 1 year ago
Nice to see Man United down at the wrong end. Hopefully one day it will happen again.
Bucklund 1 year ago
Absolute class. Great to see Swindon where they should be - upper end of the second tier.
STFCstuff 1 year ago
Good old Darlo top of the conference, we'll be trying to do the same again next season !
Remember going to the Stafford away game - a certain Mr Collymore was on the bench for them that day...
markpvd 1 year ago
Look at Man United...Those were the days!
anish81 1 year ago 48
@anish81 I love this table Villa are way above Man United, Chelsea, Arsenal, & only had to overcome the mighty Liverpool which they didn't both teams were amazing and are now suffering cos of money & the Premier League i say "BRING BACK THE OLD DIVISION 1 & 2" where anyone could win it.
AstonVilla82thebest 10 months ago
@AstonVilla82thebest (Villa supporter here m8)
anish81 10 months ago
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AstonVilla82thebest 10 months ago
@anish81 Respect! Villa fan here too.
AstonVilla82thebest 10 months ago
@AstonVilla82thebest "BRING BACK THE OLD DIVISION 1 & 2" where anyone could win it --- Really? After Villa's last title in 1981, only Liverpool, Arsenal and Everton won the title up until 1992. A decade where only 3 clubs won the title. Just like the last decade of the Premier league.
viallimcbeal 7 months ago
@anish81 yh, alex ferguson allegidly was on the verge of being sacked around this point
logom0 9 months ago
And twenty years after we came back up, Darlo are heading back down and out of the league. Administration really kicked the hell out of us last year. This time I doubt we'll be back for a long time. Mind you, our fall isn't as heavy as Luton's. Christ footie has really changed.
mrgrib 1 year ago
It'll be tough, but Darlo have a good chairman (well, better than George Reynolds) and a great ground - more like a Championship than non-league venue.
I think that you'll be back in the league by 2012 at the latest and hopefully the Championship one day, as you have the infrastructure in place - just need money and players who believe and will fight for the team. That Purcell looks a good buy, try and keep hold of him!
StourheadStudios 1 year ago
look at united there. deep in the bottom half. and Liverpool well on their way to another league title. how its all changed. :(
driller007 1 year ago
I love this because of the simple fact that Sheffield Wednesday went down in this year. Seeing grown men cry on the Hillsborough Kop still cheers me up!
ninjaradish 1 year ago
Good to see Enfailed nailed to the bottom of the league at the end, happy days. Having said that it would be nice to have them back.
BORROVAN26 1 year ago
Yes good comment.
barnet1548 1 year ago
WARD
BORROVAN26 1 year ago
And to all I appologise for all the comments and debate towards one club in particular from me.
I know the video is about the whole football leagues.
And not just one team.
Please forgive me.
God bless you all hope all your teams be ok.
bylhamclarabella 1 year ago
@DarthCipient
Happy idea: Demolish the apartment where these 2 clowns live.
AND WHEN BLOW IT MAKE SURE THE 2 CLOWNS ARE HOME.
SAVE ANFIELD.
Without wish to upset anyone from across the pond can I ask if these 2 clowns are americans?.
Because if someone messed up disney you would have a missile up the bum.
If old trafford is theatre of dreams.
Anfield is the theatre of realities.
Even man utd fans however much rivalry you have must have a fond spot for Anfield.
AC Milan does.
bylhamclarabella 1 year ago
@DarthCipient
Iam sorry this might sound crazy but I just sat about 30 minutes emotional with sadness. They will demolish Anfield.
I have respect for community projects and dont want seem impolite to those involved in them but they will need continued funding or in 5-10 years will break down.
I hope your government will help them.
Otherwise 12 years time walk along anfield road L4 OTH.
And see graffiti on wall bench ect.
CB 4 A- or CB WAS ERE.
Will see sign: ANFIELD WAS ERE.
So SAD.
bylhamclarabella 1 year ago
Sorry Gabby Logan and Jeff Stelling, but you will never be up to the standards of this era of BBC Grandstand with Bob Wilson or David Coleman with cool and simple league table graphics and "The Way It Is" playing gently in the background. I think it might have something to do with having 3 or 4 idiots sitting in a studio watching games on TV monitors that the audience can't watch and being asked questions like "So....Paul Merson...what's going on at Blackburn vs Wigan?"
DarthCipient 2 years ago
Relegated rock bottom... was a fun two years... come on you Lions!
fowlman81 2 years ago
Man United 14th and Celtic 4th in Scotland...p.s love the way that the tables get out of synch with Bob Wilson's voice
Dudds1982 2 years ago
Oxford United and Maidstone United as league clubs there and Merthyr Tydfill and Runcorn in the conference, Runcorn don't even exsist anymore, this is a blast from the past
cbx86 2 years ago
Look at Fulham and Wigan bottom half of the old div 3 and look at Burnley. My team Aston villa doing well
1860number 2 years ago
Crazy to think this was the last time Liverpool won the league. Up until then it was Fortress Anfield.
capricious71 2 years ago
Yeah maybe they should show before every game in the Anfield dressing room.
amentveddergossard 2 years ago
@capricious71
February 1991, 8th or 18th I think.
Newspaper headline: KING KENNY ROCKS KOP!!!!!.
DALGLISH QUITS AS LIVERPOOL MANAGER.
Days that followed ALAN HANSAN also quit.
That was the day they took the keys of fortress Anfield and hid them.
Souness came and sold players like Aldridge (Top scorer 28 and 32) to Real Sociedad for £1.1m. Beardsley cheap.
bylhamclarabella 2 years ago
@bylhamclarabella
Ah, don't remind me about Souness! He really was a disaster, yet at the time it seemed a good idea to make him manager and it took them seasons to recover.
20 years ago, yikes!
capricious71 2 years ago
@capricious71
Great player Souness.
But only did good at Rangers because of chequebook.
NO OFFENCE MEANT TO ANY RANGERS FANS WHO MIGHT READ THIS.
In peace.
At Anfield he manager was un disastro.
My team is Milan and Liverpool 90 werent in europe due to Hysel.
We said grazie dio.
When Kenny left was like huge GRAZIE DIO.
Hehehehe.
bylhamclarabella 2 years ago
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bylhamclarabella 2 years ago
Souness destroyed Liverpool when he took over. His signings were a disaster. Liverpool's board also dropped the ball by not expanding Anfield or moving to a new stadium back then. It allowed Man Utd to surpass them on the pitch, and on the business side too.
DarthCipient 1 year ago
@DarthCipient
As I said Kenny Dalglish left and Manchester United took over.
Do you think they will keep Anfield as a club museum or something similar?. As the Beatles have the cavern and the museum at albert dock.
Have they moved across Stanley park yet.
Sorry to ask.
Havent visited for few years.
bylhamclarabella 1 year ago
The work on Liverpool's new stadium hasn't even begun yet due apparently to the "credit crunch". As far as I'm aware Anfield will be demolished and replaced with apartments and community projects. Personally I doubt the new stadium will be built at all as long as Hicks and Gillett are running the club.
DarthCipient 1 year ago
dunfermline and dundee are the only 2 teams that are not in spl this year, but other than that scottish league not change that much team wise.
idontsignin 2 years ago
2 years later man u won the prem , reason is alex fergie in charge which means and referees are a round, which mean alex fergis watch comes in to the game more
sunnysoundblackpool 2 years ago
united in 14th below city wimbledon and coventry.... fergies job on the line haha no fergie time in them days
paoloblanc 2 years ago
8 london clubs in top division!!!!
glenp23 2 years ago
20 years on, Brentford are in exactly the same place..
nyc999 2 years ago 12
bob said said colchester were bottom far to early before it even came up,but these were still legend days
russ7510 2 years ago
Remember being at Hillsborough on the last day of this season as we got relegated. Horrible memories. Man Utd below Wimbledon, difficult to believe now such a thing could happen.
TerryNutkins80 2 years ago
leeds top of league yeah
hawksrl 2 years ago
Nice to see Manchester United in the bottom half of the "First Division"
LordHeath1972 2 years ago 2
Most funniest thing is rochfail still in the bottom div hahaha....nowt changed
1mrhanky 2 years ago
isn't interesting, so many Div 3 clubs, now playing in the premiership, even a div 4 team.
gsf67 2 years ago
How times have changed, poor old Luton Town, now playing in the conference league.
gsf67 2 years ago
god liverpool were top of league at the of season i always thought people were lying
jamesbutle180 2 years ago
Bad season for Celtic.
capricious71 2 years ago
What good memories! Saturday tea time!
lof1977 2 years ago
This is from Saturday 21st April 1990.
rjhglover 2 years ago 2
Manchester United before the Football Association and Referee assistance.
gabsika1 2 years ago
"It's looking bleak for Colchester"...
capricious71 2 years ago
You're so right! This was the season that Colchester were relegated from the league into the Conference. I remember it well, the company I worked for organised a general knowledge quiz in April 1990 and we entered a team called "Colchester Untied". We won the quiz! Thanks for bringing back this memory, yours sincerely, Gus from Colchester.
gusgorilla76 2 years ago
AFter this season, the leeds domination must have started?
tomberra 2 years ago
It's incredible to think that just two years after winning Division Two, Leeds were Division One champions. Could anyone possibly imagine this happening again? I can't. Let's say West Brom win the Coca Cola Championship, what are the chances they will be 2012 Premiership winners? No chance at all. Football has changed, and not necessarily for the better.
DarthCipient 2 years ago
You can only win if you have the money now.
tomberra 2 years ago
@DarthCipient
1991?.
Plus if I remember an epic Charity shield V Liverpool.
4-3.
Bonjour Mr Eric Cantona.
MAMMA MIA QUE EMOZIONE hehehe. The memories sorry hehehe.
bylhamclarabella 2 years ago
It's a shame Leeds didn't keep Cantona. These days, football is crap. Pompey and Palace are fucked, Leeds in the third tier, Liverpool owned by two shitbergs, Glazers dumping debt onto Man U. Chelsea and Man City used as playthings for billionaires. Richard fucking Keys. Chris Kamara still employed. Our leagues don't even have proper names anymore. "Division 1, 2, 3, 4" made sense. Now we've got "The Premiership, the Championship, League One, and League Two?" It's fucking shite!!!
DarthCipient 2 years ago 2