Division One 1988 1989 Liverpool Arsenal Title Game

 

 

26 mai 1989

Anfield Road

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The final match of the 1988–89 Football League season was contested at Anfield between Liverpool and Arsenal, the top two teams in the First Division, on 26 May 1989. The clubs were close enough on points for the match to act as a decider for the championship. Arsenal won by two goals, the margin they required to take the title. Midfielder Michael Thomas scored the second goal in the final seconds of the match, ending Arsenal's 18-year wait to be crowned champions.

Arsenal’s 2-0 victory over Liverpool at Anfield on the final day of the 1988-89 season remains one of the most celebrated game in English football history. Michael Thomas’s 91st-minute goal will never be topped for drama. The set-up was one in a million, the execution perfectly timed.  

 

 

It would also prove to be a significant moment in the transformation of the English game, not only toppling a Liverpool side that dominated through the 1970s and 1980s but reimagining the sport as televisual entertainment.

A stand-alone title decider played on a Friday night and beamed into millions of homes, it focused minds on the concept of sport as mass entertainment – and on the concept of a breakaway league. At the end of a dark decade for the sport, we desperately needed Thomas’s magical moment.