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2nd Division
Ayresome Park | Sat 7 Oct 1961 at 15:00
| Middlesbrough | 2 | - | 0 | Liverpool |
Starting Lineup
| 1 |  |
Bert Slater |
| 2 |  |
John Molyneux |
| 3 |  |
Gerry Byrne |
| 4 |  |
Gordon Milne |
| 5 |  |
Dick White (c) |
| 6 |  |
Tommy Leishman |
| 7 |  |
Kevin Lewis |
| 8 |  |
Roger Hunt |
| 9 |  |
Alf Arrowsmith |
| 10 |  |
Jimmy Melia |
| 11 |  |
Alan A'Court |
Opposition goals
- Dick White O/G 49'
- Dick White O/G 64'
Notes
- - Alf Arrowsmith makes his LFC debut
- - Average age of the Liverpool starting lineup: 24.73
- - Average age of the Middlesbrough starting lineup: 24.71
- - Liverpool league position after match: 1
- - Middlesbrough league position after match: 14
- - Click here to view the full league table after the match.
- - Ron Yeats was unable to play because he had not fully recovered from the badly-bruised shoulder he had sustained in the match against Newcastle seven days earlier. His replacement at centre-half, Dick White, scored two own-goals!
Ian St. John was also unavailable because he was representing Scotland in a British Championship match against Northern Ireland in Belfast. Scotland won 6-1 but the Saint was not one of the scorers. His place at Ayresome Park was taken by Alf Arrowsmith, who was making his debut for Liverpool's first team. Arrowsmith had two goals disallowed for offside, both at a time when Middlesbrough led 1-0.
Other details
- Manager: Bill Shankly
- Opposition manager: Robert Dennison
- Referee: Tuck KR
- Attendance: 23,780
- Half-time score: 0
- 0 - Game number: 2464
- League game number: 2248
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Related images & files
Liverpool Daily Post report (Courtesy of Adrian Killen)
Match programme article
