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Birthdate:
13.06.1941
Birthplace: Derby, England
Other clubs: Aston Villa, Chelsea, Coventry, Birmingham, Notts County, Oldham; Bromsgrove Rovers, Prescot, Keyworth United (all three amateur)
Bought from: Chelsea
Signed for LFC: £96000 05.07.1967
Liverpool debut:
19.08.1967
Last appearance: 31.08.1968
Debut goal: 26.08.1967
Last goal: 24.08.1968
Contract expiry: 19.09.1968
LFC league games/goals: 42 / 17
Total LFC games/goals: 56 / 28
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Player Notes:
Liverpool paid Chelsea a club record fee of £96,000 to secure the services of this powerful towering centre-forward. Hateley had already scored over 150 league goals for Notts. County, Aston Villa & Chelsea when he arrived at Anfield as a 26-year-old and looked to still have the best years of his career ahead of him. He scored a hat-trick in only his 3rd League match for the Reds and missed only 4 First Division fixtures during his debut season, netting 16 times in all. He added another 8 goals as Liverpool reached the FA cup quarter-final stage, including four in one game as Walsall were thrashed 5-2 in a 4th round replay on Merseyside. 3 goals in Europe meant he had scored 27 goals in his first season.
Tony never managed to repeat the success of that first season and his career at Anfield was to be only a brief one. He was substituted at Leeds on the last day of October 1968 and was never to pull on the famous red shirt again. Liverpool's pass-and-move style did not seem to suit Hateley's game and only 15 months after his arrival he was on the move. Shankly bought Alun Evans and the youngster from the West Midlands took over the No. 9 shirt.
Tony, who is the father of England international, Mark, played for 11 clubs in his career and scored 210 goals in 429 league appearances. |
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