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WATCH LFC TV FREE TONIGHT
Jimmy Rice 05 November 2007 
  LFC TV will broadcast free to all Sky and Virgin customers for one hour a night all this week. 
Liverpool Week has been organised to coincide with Setanta having two of the Reds' Barclays Premier League matches live.
 
The free hour has been scheduled each night to ensure Kopites who haven't already signed up to the club's official channel can check out a full range of its key programmes.
 




Satellite customers on channel 448 and Virgin Media customers on channel 544 will be able to see the following:
 
Monday, November 5, 9pm: This Is Anfield - Liverpool legend Ronnie Whelan looks forward to the Fulham game on November 10.
 
Tuesday, November 6, 6.15pm: The Match: A Closer Look – Ex-Liverpool midfielder Jan Molby dissects our game against Blackburn Rovers.
 
Wednesday, November 7, 6.30pm: Sixty Minutes with...Jan Molby.
 
Thursday, November 8, 9pm: The John Barnes Show - John Barnes is joined in the studio by special guests Bruce Grobbelaar, Tommy Lawrence and Brian Hall.
 
Friday, November 9, 9pm: Big Match Build Up - a look ahead to the Liverpool v Fulham clash at Anfield.
 
Liverpool Week is book ended by two exclusively live Barclays Premier League games on Setanta Sports – Blackburn on November 3 and Fulham on November 10, both at 5.15pm.

[Dundalk]

Kop 10 Champions League nights - On at the moment

Watched it all last night - great stuff

[red37]

Dont forget the 'Ressies' are on Live now. Second half against Blackburn due to get underway...

[J*o*n*D*o*e]

it probably wasnt the first time its been shown but i watched Aldo this afternoon talking about the team of 87/88, they shown the game against forest 5.0 (i was there) what a game and what a team that was, i know forest where not the greatest team around but i think we would of beaten any team in the world that night, some of the best football ive ever seen by a liverpool team in all my years following them, how much would john barnes be worth today.

[McDermott-oh that was beautiful]

... and so on LFCTV tonight, a showing of the 1974 FA Cup Final .. Liverpool 3 Newcastle 0.

As I was just a little too young to have seen this match at the time (my first good memory is of the 1976 final onwards) it was good to see the whole game.
Quite a few things struck me as I watched how footy has changed since then:

- The back pass. What a delight to see that go.

- And following on from the back pass, the inevitable striker in the face of the goalkeeper as he goes to kick the ball out of his hands. Cant say I've missed that either.

- Just at the side of the goal, almost touching the goal line were large banks of photographers. In fact they were so close that a player could easily slide into them. Weird.

- Flags on the half way line.

- No cards produced (that I recall) - not that there were any particularly bad fouls, just ones which would inevitably attract a yellow these days.

- Although 3 goals were scored, there were no TV replays at all. Although as the scorers ran back to the halfway line you got a brief caption of their surname

- And no score or clock displayed on the original pictures. Just a reminder every 20mins or so.

- A rather understated red carpet was in place for the entire game, coming from the tunnel and ending almost on the side of the pitch. Classy.

- The players wore numbers 1 thru 11, with no sponsorship or the shirts. Oh, and nice sensible black boots too

- Both managers sat cheek to cheek on the same bench. How funny to think if that happened now.

- The ref in the final must have been 50 if a day.

- One substitute per team.

- The commentary. David Coleman with two other co-commentators (Don Revie and Jimmy Hill). The best thing here was these two were only allowed to speak once or twice per half. If only we could restrict Andy Gray to that...

Ahh happy days.

Great to see some of the players that I grew up watching, and a few older ones who had moved on when I first became a big fan.

For the record, the scorers were Keegan (2) and Heighway. But I'm sure you all new that 

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The main thing I remember about that game apart fron the 3 goals, was the great "goal" Alec Lindsey scored that was disallowed. Great final for any Liverpool fan, but not really one for the neutral as it was so onesided.

[red37]

chat show on now.

[NANNY RED]

SO far call of the night for me was the lad Francis from Walton got it spot on were is Rick Parry and why hasnt he made a statement.
Aldo thought he should come out and make one aswell

[Ciggy]

SO far call of the night for me was the lad Francis from Walton got it spot on were is Rick Parry and why hasnt he made a statement.
Aldo thought he should come out and make one aswell

Anno the lad from Walton was spot on where the fuck is Parry.

Hasnt been good viewing tonight with what Brian said that the press are going easy on us and its a lot worst than we think fuckinell.

And more importantly who is running the club?

Because it doesnt seem like anyone has any idea at the moment.

[NANNY RED]

Gutted though cigg i missed the Xabi sing song what was he like

[Ciggy]

Gutted though cigg i missed the Xabi sing song what was he like

Missed it queen me satelite kept goin off with the rain and wind  

WALK ON,
WAAAAAAAAAALK ON,
WITH HOPE IN YOUR HEART,

Ive had a drink luv so fuckin pissed off with all this shite girl.

[zarababe]

All the calls were about the situation .. REDS are worried all over the place

PARRY U COWARD WHERE ARE YA

[red37]

Don't forget - the Reserves are on live again tonight against City. 7 Bells.

[Dundalk]

Stan collymore is on tonight in the 60 mins show at 9.

Should be worth a look

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Alyson Rudd

Nostalgia is rubbish unless your team win every time
Any channel that makes John Barnes look at ease must have something going for it
There was a plaintive cry from across the hall. “Mum, when’s dinner ready?” Ah, I had forgotten about the boys’ chicken.

“Sorry,” I said, “I’m just watching Everton against Liverpool.” My eight-year-old, who keeps a keen eye on football fixtures, was suspicious. It was six o’clock and it was Wednesday. He stood next to me. “I won’t be long, I’m just waiting for Liverpool’s winner,” I said. “How do you know they will score?” he said. “Because it’s Liverpool FC TV,” I said. “And they wouldn’t show this game unless there was a dramatic Liverpool winner.”

And there was. Gary McAllister scored from a free kick deep into stoppage time and the Reds won 3-2. It was 2001. Everton were in danger of being relegated and Gérard Houllier greeted McAllister’s goal with the sort of hysterical laughter normally seen at a Carry On convention.

Liverpool FC TV is pure genius. Sky Sports runs classic Premier League encounters, but you cannot guarantee that Liverpool will be involved and, if they are, that they will win. Nostalgia is rubbish unless your team are victorious. Every club should provide their fans with a TV channel. It brings a whole new dimension to channel-hopping. Instead of jabbing away, despairing of the reruns of Top Gear, the acronym shows of CSI, JAG and NCIS and that the only decent film started 20 minutes ago, it is now possible to be guaranteed a channel worth watching. You might think, on the face of it, that a programme called Sixty Minutes With Mark Wright might be pushing its luck. And it is – but only because Wright is more than capable of chatting away for 460 minutes, and candidly, too. “We weren’t that bad; we’re not winning titles today, either.”

John Barnes hosts his own show and is quite simply more relaxed than we have ever seen him before, comfortable with tackling controversial issues and exposing his chest hair. I bet you didn’t know that Tommy Lawrence, the Liverpool goalkeeper known as the Flying Pig, was the son of a man who worked in atomic research, but Barnesy teased that information out of him and settled once and for all the reason why Lawrence was considered a soaring swine. There is no reason, but Lawrence was the very first sweeper ’keeper with a brief to hack down attackers as long as he was outside his area.

I took a peek at Celtic TV and was obviously really tempted to watch Brother Walfrid, the story of Celtic’s founding father and the campaign to build a monument in his honour, but I couldn’t in case I missed one of LFC TV’s top tens or, as the station likes to call them, Kop 10s. I bet you did not know that Kenny Dalglish would be awarded the top spot in a countdown of all-time Liverpool No 7s, but I was surprised to see that Harry Kewell and Nigel Clough made it on to the list.

Given that for any fan there is a duty factor involved here and it is almost impossible to not stick with LFC TV without feeling disloyal, it is just as well the station has decent production values. Every ten minutes or so there is a short ad break bracketed by a collage of Ian Rush, arms in the air, Emlyn Hughes grinning wildly and Steven Gerrard raising the European Cup. LFC TV is friendly and classy feel-good telly and it is always there. Not so Celtic TV, nor indeed Rangers TV, which, on Saturday, when Scotland faced an immense game against Italy, shut down altogether. There was no caption saying, “We’re off down the boozer all day”, but there probably should have been one out of courtesy. There must have been at least one Old Firm fan who would yearn for a rerun of a classic league game from 1993-94 in place of international fare.

Certainly, there were plenty of Liverpool fans who much preferred, given the injury to Yossi Benayoun, to give Israel v Russia a miss and watch a rerun of Liverpool’s recent trip to Wigan Athletic instead. It was a clever choice, given that Benayoun scored the winner. I now eagerly await the Kop 10 Kosher Kicks.