Yes, this is the Red Army Liverpool in the song You Can't Walk Alone.
1892, John Holding founded the Liverpool Club. Holding was the owner of Anfield Stadium, which was the home of Everton at that time. But when Holding decided to raise the stadium rent, Everton Club decided to move out and build its own stadium, which is now Goodison Park Stadium. Holding then rebuilt the team in the empty Anfield and named it "Everton Athletic". However, the football governing body would not accept such an obviously ambiguous name, so Holding had to change the name of the team to "Liverpool".
Liverpool is not one of the founding clubs of the top football league in England. Their professional competition started from the second league match. But in the first season of playing professional league, Liverpool successfully advanced with an unbeaten and proud result. 190 1 year, they won the first place in the history of the club 18 league titles; 1906, they won the league championship again.
1922 and 1923 won the league championship for two consecutive years. But in 1954, they were disappointed and relegated to the second division. 1959, bill shankly took over as Liverpool manager. In the first season, he always fired 24 players and began to rebuild the team completely. Shankly's drastic reforms have indeed transformed Liverpool from a second-rate team into an important force in the European arena.
In 1964, he won the league championship trophy he lost in 17 for the first time and returned to Anfield. He won the FA Cup with his team in 1965 and ranked first in the league again in 1966. 1973, Shankly led the team to win the European Cup Winners' Cup, which was the first time in the history of the Red Army to win the European championship. A year later, Shankly retired and gave the position of head coach to his assistant Bob Pishley. And Pixley has become the most successful club manager in British history.
During his nine years in charge of Liverpool, he led the team to win 2 1 major championships, including 3 European Champions Cup, 1 European Winners Cup and 6 league titles. They won the League Cup in 198 1 82,83 for three consecutive years. The dominance of the Red Army has not been shaken by Ashley's resignation. After joe fagan took over, he led the Red Army to become the first team to win three championships in one season-1984, and they successively ushered in the European Cup, the Premier League and the English League Cup and returned to Anfield. This is the fourth time Liverpool have won the Champions League trophy.
Just as the Red Army was devastated on the pitch, their names were associated with two disasters. 1985 In the match between Heisel Stadium and Juventus for the European Champions Cup, some Liverpool fans crossed the fence separating them from Juventus fans, resulting in too many spectators in the same stand, which led to the collapse of the stand. 39 fans died on the spot, most of them Italian fans.
After the Haiser tragedy, English clubs were banned from participating in European competitions for five years and Liverpool were banned for six years. It took a long time for English football to get rid of the negative influence brought by football hooligans.
Another disaster happened in 1989, Liverpool's FA Cup semi-final against Nottingham Forest. At that time, the game was scheduled to be held at Xie's home Hillsborough Stadium on Wednesday. Before the game started, a large number of fans gathered outside the stadium, far exceeding the limit that the police could manage. Because of the crowd, 94 fans died on the quarantine network, one fan died in the hospital four days later because of ineffective treatment, and the other fan was declared dead four years later, but he never regained consciousness during these four years.
The Hillsborough tragedy completely changed the design layout of English stadiums. All the standing frames have been cancelled and replaced by neat seat frames. The protective barbed wire separating the fans from the stadium has also been cancelled. The Hillsborough tragedy eclipsed the performance of another Liverpool meritorious coach, Kenny Dalglish. Dalglish, who has won many honors with Liverpool as a player, helped the Red Army win the League title three times and the FA Cup twice during his coaching. 1986 Dalglish also led the team to win the League Cup and FA Cup.
After Dalglish, another former Red Army player, Geremi Souness, took over as the manager of the Red Army, but it is hard for Liverpool to find the feeling of bullying and being afraid of bullying. The head coach was also replaced by roy evans and Gerard Houllier.
In 2004, Spaniard Rafael Benitez took over as the coach of the Red Army. In 2005, although Liverpool was disappointingly ranked fifth in the league, it unexpectedly won the Champions League, which was the fifth time in Liverpool's history. In this championship battle with AC Milan, Liverpool fell behind 3-0 in the first half, but they fought back in the second half and successfully tied the score. Their indomitable fighting spirit completely defeated the confidence of the Italians, and in the final penalty shootout, Liverpool became the last person to laugh. As a team that has won the Champions League five times, according to the rules, Liverpool can always win the championship trophy, so the trophy used in the Champions League was remade in 2006.
Liverpool are still one of the strong contenders for the championship this season. Although Manchester United and Chelsea are in full swing, no one can doubt the champion heart of the Red Army.