Small and powerful Fred Geary, barely 5 ft. 2 ins. (157 cm.) and weighing 9 st. 6 lbs. (60 kg.) at best, is the smallest man to ever play for Liverpool. He was a record-breaking Everton centre-forward of the Victorian era from 1889-1895 who scored 86 goals in 99 games! He was the Blues' leading scorer with 20 goals in...
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Profiles of every player named in a Liverpool matchday squad since 1892/93 — from legends to one-game substitutes.
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"It was during the close season and I'd gone fishing with a couple of mates from Llandudno. We were making our way back to shore after catching a couple of fish when I saw my dad standing on the beach waving his arms. I thought something was wrong at home but when he told me Wrexham had phoned to say Liverpool wanted to sign me I almost fell back into the sea."
Andrew Hannah took the armband in 1892, in the club's first season after the split from Everton. Virgil van Dijk holds it today.
In August 2025, Liverpool were around 2/1 to retain the Premier League, the clear favourites with every major firm. By the middle of February they were 150/1, an implied probability of roughly one per cent.
The passion for football doesn’t die when the final whistle blows. The excitement continues for millions of players on a console or PC.
Anfield has produced enough 89th-minute swings that longtime supporters treat a 1-0 scoreline after 85 minutes as unfinished business rather than a result. Steven Gerrard's heroics against Olympiacos in 2004, the three goals inside six second-half minutes against Milan in Istanbul – these are not freak outliers to anyone who has watched Liverpool for a decade. Yet odds compilers keep pricing a goal after the 85th minute as though it belongs in the same bracket as a red card inside the first ninety seconds.
