Apparently it was Alzheimers. I remember when we were in the second division and we had to play at Charlton. It was the height of the Asian Flu epidemic and Liverpool tried to get the game postponed as they had half dozen players down with it. The league said No and we had to play the youngsters. Gerry Byrne was one of them - think it was his first game - and I remember Gerry did something that centre half Laurie Hughes took exception to and he didn't half bawl Byrne out. Believe we lost 5-1 in the end but I know that the crowd was 35,000 at the Valley!
That's the crux of it. 24 attempts and how many were actually on target?? As they did in the Shankly era. Because our scouting system isn't up to much....?
He was not very happy about his future prospects at Anfield and the Liverpool Board didn't exactly help. He joined Man Utd whose ground at the time was an absolute wreck, I seem to remember,
Told my West Ham pal Friday he might something out of the match - even though half their team was out. We've scored two goals in three games and one of them was wrongly given. Told him all the Hammers had to do was park the bus. Man Utd next and we have Coutinho out, unless Rodgers appeals the sending off. Frankly if I had been Rodgers, I would have refused to let Sterling go. It's an insult mentioning him and Ibe in the same sentence.