Talking about unEnglish team, Liverpool of the late 70s to early 80s stood out. I am a MU fan and hated during those times when they won almost every single league or cup. Looking back it's really a joy watch them with their smooth style and their total control of the game from the back to front. Something like a concoction of German total football and today's Arsenal team. That's how good Liverpool are back in those days.
Just recall they had players like...
Ray Clemence, Phil Neal, Phil Thompson, Alan Kennedy, Alan Hansen, Terry Mcdermott, Ray Kennedy, Sammy Lee, Grame Souness, Kenny Daglish, Emlyn Huhes, Steve Heighway, Jimmy Case, Mark Lawrenson, Ronnie Whelan, Ian Rush...
Awesome.
Great players all, but they were from different eras.
Emlyn Hughes for instance, never played with Ian Rush.
Graeme Souness was actually the manager of people like Whelan and Rush.
If you are interested in Liverpool of the 1980s, you should read Ian Rush's autobiography, aptly titled "Rush".
Players like Clemence, Neal, Thompson, Hughes, McDermott, Heighway, the 2 Kennedys, Lee, Case etc were from one era. So were Keegan, David Johnson, and supersub David Fairclough
Players like Hansen, Lawrenson, Whelan, Rush, Dalglish, Souness were from another era. Not forgetting also good old "Macca" (the bald one on TV), "Macca" (the one with lots of hair), the eccentric Grobelaar, and then a little later, Barnes, Beardsley, Aldridge etc.
In my opinion, Hansen and Lawrenson formed the best centre back partnership in the history of the english game, or as far as I can remember anyway. They never seemed flustered and never had to resort to dirty games to clear their lines.
