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Match details
Friendly
Stade Jean Bouin | Wednesday 16 May 1956
| Angers | 0 | - | 0 | Liverpool |
Notes
- Tour: France
- It is known that the following eight players definitely took part in this match : Doug Rudham, Billy Liddell, Ray Saunders, Brian Jackson, Alan A'Court, Dick White, Tony Rowley and Johnny Evans.
The Liverpool party only arrived in Angers three hours before kick-off, having endured a 28-hour journey by train and ferry. Their pre-match preparation was also disrupted when they were separated from their kit in Paris by officials who insisted that the skips be conveyed on a different train.
Other details
- Attendance: 5,000
- Half-time score: 0
- 0
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