How Liverpool's greatest team failed to rule the world in 1984

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They face Flamengo tonight, as they did in 1981 – but three years later, Joe Fagan’s Reds took on Argentine club Independiente for the honour of becoming world club champions. In order to win it, they would have to overcome one of South America’s finest cup teams and a miserable English record in the competition

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Manchester United

Aston Villa

Nottingham Forest

Liverpool

Independiente

Real Madrid

UEFA Champions League

FIFA Club World Cup

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'Independiente, Campeon Del Mundo!' screamed the front page of El Gráfico

Vanity, that most Latin of personality traits, inculcated them with the desire to be crowned ‘world club champion'

- Andrés Campomar, Golazo

Up front, the normally free-scoring duo of Kenny Dalglish and Ian Rush had rarely been so efficiently stifled

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YOUR LIVERPOOL TEAM...

• GK Bruce Grobbelaar
• RB Phil Neal (c)
• CB Alan Hansen
• CB Gary Gillespie
• LB Alan Kennedy
• RM Craig Johnston 
• CM John Wark
• CM Jan Molby
• LM Steve Nicol
• CF Kenny Dalglish
• CF Ian Rush

ENGLISH WOES

• 1968 Estudiantes 2-1agg Man Utd
• 1980 Nacional 1-0 Nott'm Forest
• 1981 Flamengo 3-0 Liverpool
• 1982 Penarol 2-0 Aston Villa

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