A player from our history
Walter Wadsworth
Before the likes of Gerry Byrne, Ron Yeats, Tommy Smith and Jamie Carragher, the defender who had his opponents shaking in their boots was Liverpool's original hard man, Walter Wadsworth from Bootle. After reading through several match reports at the time it becomes quite evident that Wadsworth was the quintessential tough man who referees had on quite a few occasions give a talking to because of the severity of his challenges. Wadsworth wasn't though just going around kicking people and was quite an accomplished…
- Birthdate: 7 October 1890
- Birthplace: Bootle, Liverpool, England
- Other clubs: Lingdale (1910-11), Ormskirk (1911-12), Bristol City (1926-28), Flint Town (1928-29), New Brighton (1929-30), Oswestry Town (1930-31)
- Date of death: 6 October 1951
- Bought from: Ormskirk
- Signed for LFC: April 1912
- Liverpool debut: 20.03.1915
- Last appearance: 03.04.1926
- Debut goal: 28.08.1920
- Last goal: 21.10.1922
- Contract expiry: 14.05.1926
- Honours: League Championship 1921/22, 1922/23
- Wartime games/goals: 114 / 9
- League games / goals: 218 / 7
- Total games / goals: 242 / 8
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Kop Quote
Leslie "Bee" Edwards, the sports editor of the Liverpool Daily Post and Echo."Of all the players I have seen though, the outstanding one was Billy Liddell. When he was at his peak just after the war, George Kay used to hold pre-match tactical talks and just tell the others: "Give the ball to Billy whenever you can, and he'll win it for us." He usually did too."
This Season
CL Quarter-final 2nd leg
Anfield | Wednesday 14 Apr 2021
| Liverpool | Real Madrid | |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | - | 0 |
The last ...
- Game was against
- Real Madrid on Wednesday, 14 Apr 2021
- Goal was scored by
- Trent Alexander-Arnold against Aston Villa on Saturday, 10 Apr 2021
- Own goal was scored by
- Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain against Manchester City on Thursday, 02 Jul 2020
- Sending off was
- Alisson Becker against Brighton & Hove Albion on Saturday, 30 Nov 2019
- Penalty goal was
- Mohamed Salah against Manchester City on Sunday, 07 Feb 2021
- Missed penalty was
- Sadio Mané against Red Star Belgrade on Wednesday, 24 Oct 2018
- Home win was against
- Aston Villa on Saturday, 10 Apr 2021
- Home draw was against
- Real Madrid on Wednesday, 14 Apr 2021
- Home defeat was against
- Fulham on Sunday, 07 Mar 2021
- Away win was against
- Arsenal on Saturday, 03 Apr 2021
- Away draw was against
- Newcastle United on Wednesday, 30 Dec 2020
- Away defeat was against
- Real Madrid on Tuesday, 06 Apr 2021
- Five games
Few facts from our database
- Liverpool FC have scored 10057 goals in 5788 competitive matches registered at LFChistory.
- 203 of those goals are own goals and 528 came from the penalty spot.
- 457 players have scored a goal for Liverpool FC.
- 423 players have scored a league goal for Liverpool FC.
- Liverpool have scored 1.7 goals on average in each game.
- 777 players have played in competitive matches for Liverpool FC since 1892.
- 15039 players have played against Liverpool FC since the 1893-1894 season.
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