The Challenger Space Shuttle disaster had shocked the world; A-Ha were about to be knocked off the number one spot by Billy Ocean; England had started their Caribbean tour that would take a route from bad to worse; and the UK was experiencing a cold snap that would see large parts of the country covered in snow. Welcome to the winter of 1986.
Admittedly the clubs have not played each other much since, but you have to go back to February 1986 for the last time Ipswich defeated Liverpool at Portman Road. Even Kieran McKenna was not born, although is it just me or are more football managers looking younger now?
Handed a tough opening match on their return to the Premier League, McKenna will be hoping his Ipswich team improve ever so slightly on the previous meeting between the two clubs in Suffolk: Ipswich 0 Liverpool 6.
