The right-half had to wait nearly five years before getting his chance in the first team. After a dreadful run of eight defeats in the previous 11 league games, Liverpool beat Middlesbrough 3-2 at Ayresome Park. Leslie Edwards at the Liverpool Echo saw promise in Saunders in his fifth game for Liverpool against Bolton...
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"I asked the manager to let me take the fourth penalty given what happened in Istanbul last year. That hurt me. I was carrying an injury at the time which meant that I couldn't blast the penalty there which I'd normally do. I had to place it and their keeper (Dida) saved it. That was a nightmare, even though we won the cup, it still left me demoralised but I could use the power now.
"I know my penalty here wasn't a great penalty, but a goal's a goal. I blasted it down the middle and it flew in, and as soon as it hit the back of the net, I burst into tears. They were stinging my eyes. It was just so emotional after what happened last season. This was closure, a chance for me to get revenge and put things right."
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Andrew Hannah took the armband in 1892, in the club's first season after the split from Everton. Virgil van Dijk holds it today.
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