On this day: 'Liverpool were better than Brazil'
‘It’s one of the finest exhibitions of football I’ve ever seen in my life… I’ve seen Brazilians play but I’ve never seen the game played at that pace or executed like that.’
Tom Finney knew a good team when he saw one.
Those were the words of one of English football’s all-time greats after he’d witnessed Liverpool’s 5-0 destruction of Nottingham Forest at Anfield 30 years ago today.
The Reds’ 1987-88 title-winning vintage are widely thought of as one of the - if not the - best sides in the club’s exalted history.
And April 13, 1988 was perhaps the date that Kenny Dalglish’s magnificent outfit hit its glorious peak.
Watch the best bits of one of the finest performances Anfield has ever seen in our free video above.