Arrivals from Spain
2010 - Winger Maxi Rodríguez signed for free from Club Atlético de Madrid. He has so far bagged fifteen goals in 63 reds outings.
2005 - Fernando Morientes signed from Real Madrid for £6.3m. He netted just twelve goals in 61 reds games, but helped us to claim the FA Cup and UEFA Super Cup before moving on to Valencia in July 2006, where he regained his scoring touch.
Sam's bow
1900 - Forward Sam Raybould made his reds debut as a Hugh Morgan brace condemned West Bromwich Albion to a 2-0 defeat at Anfield. He went on to net 130 times in 226 reds games, becoming the first player to bag a hundred League goals for the club.
Birth and death
1984 - Tommy Younger died. He made 127 appearances in our goal after signing from Hibernian for £9,000 in July 1956, as well as winning 24 caps for Scotland, and later became the President of the Scottish FA.
1875 - Half-back Barney Battles was born in Springburn, Glasgow. He only made two appearances for the reds in two spells at the end of the nineteenth century, including in our first Test Match meeting with West Bromwich Albion in April 1896 that helped secure our return to the top-flight.
The legend returns
2003 - Ian Rush returned to Liverpool as a part-time specialist striking coach, a role he only occupied for around a year. His club record 346 strikes in 660 games had helped us to five League titles, the European Cup, three FA Cups, five League Cups, two FA Charity Shields and the Screen Sport Super Cup.
A win at the vicarage
2007 - We beat Watford 3-0, with Peter Crouch adding a brace after Craig Bellamy had opened the scoring at Vicarage Road, with both starting alongside Dirk Kuyt in an attacking line up.
Cup despair
1993 - Second Division Bolton Wanderers knocked us out of the FA Cup at Anfield, winning our Third Round replay 2-0. John McGinlay nodded the visitors in front inside three minutes, with Andy Walker scoring the second with his head late on. Robbie Fowler made the bench for the first time, while Michael Thomas was ruled out for the rest of the season after snapping an Achilles tendon.
2010 - We were dumped out of the Cup in another replay at the same stage, as Reading won 2-1 at Anfield. A Ryan Bertrand own goal put us in front on the stroke of half time, but the Championship strugglers equalised at the death after Yossi Benayoun gave away a penalty, with both Fernando Torres and Steven Gerrard having to be withdrawn early due to injuries. Unfortunately, the visitors gained a deserved victory when Shane Long headed the extra time winner.
Cup milestones
1912 - Outside-right Arthur Goddard appeared in his 23rd consecutive FA Cup match for the reds as a Jack Parkinson goal gave us a First Round home win over Leyton. Unfortunately, we went out at Fulham at the next hurdle.
1926 - We played our hundredth FA Cup match, when a Dick Forshaw goal was enough to hand us victory over Southampton in a Third Round replay at Anfield. Unfortunately, we were knocked out at the next hurdle at Fulham.
Seeing off the Villa
2001 - A brace from Danny Murphy and an unstoppable shot past ex-red David James from Steven Gerrard condemned Aston Villa to a 3-0 defeat at Villa Park, with their new signing Juan Pablo Angel watching from the stands. Jari Litmanen made his first reds start in this game.
Spot-kick failures
1906 - Alf West had a penalty saved in each half as we beat Leicester Fosse 2-1 in an FA Cup First Round tie at Anfield. Sam Raybould and Arthur Goddard netted for the reds, with Billy Bannister also failing to convert a spot-kick for the visitors.
Debuting
1951 - Forward Don Woan played the first of just two reds games as we won 2-1 at Derby County in a top-flight encounter. Inside-forward Jack Haigh bagged his first reds goal with Billy Liddell also on target as we completed our first League double over the Rams since April 1929.
Rescuing a point at Highbury
2002 - John Arne Riise latched onto a sensational long pass from Steven Gerrard to strike past Stuart Taylor in front of the North Bank to hand us a 1-1 draw, after Freddie Ljungberg had opened the scoring for Arsenal.
1923 - We also drew with the Gunners, being held to a goalless draw at Anfield in the First Round of the FA Cup. We won the replay, but went out in the Third Round at home to Sheffield United.
Hitting five
1962 - We saw off Norwich City at Anfield by the odd goal in nine on our way to the Second Division championship. Alan A'Court netted in addition to braces from both Jimmy Melia and Roger Hunt. Terry Alcock bagged a treble for the Canaries, the most recent player to score a hat-trick at Anfield and still end up on the losing side.
1894 - We trounced Rotherham Town 5-1 at Anfield in a Second Division fixture at Anfield, having won 4-1 in the reverse fixture the previous week. David Henderson and Harry Bradshaw both netted braces, with Hugh McQueen also on target.
Reds in charge
2006 - Steve Staunton was appointed Manager of the Republic of Ireland. He led them to just six victories in his seventeen games in charge. Fellow ex-red Kevin MacDonald was appointed as one of his coaches at the same time.
Personal awards
2006 - Rafael Benítez was named Barclays Manager of the Month for the second month running, after four League wins out of four in December.
2010 - Standard de Liège forward Milan Jovanović was named Jupiler League Player of the Year in Belgium.
On the move
2006 - Don Hutchison joined Coventry City on a free transfer from Millwall after a successful loan spell. He had struck twice in fourteen games for the Lions and grabbed four goals in forty outings for the Sky Blues before being struck down with a serious injury.
2011 - Reserves forward Nathan Eccleston joined Charlton Athletic on loan. He netted three times in 21 outings for the Addicks.
Tweet tweet
2011 - Ryan Babel admitted an FA charge for improper conduct relating to tweeting about referee Howard Webb after the recent FA Cup defeat at Manchester United.
Lucas the skipper
2007 - Future red Lucas Leiva captained Brazil Under-20's as they beat Bolivia 3-0 in a Sudamericano Sub-20 "Juventud de América" group game in Paraguay, despite having a man sent off.
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