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2nd Division
St Andrews | Sat 11 Dec 1954 at 14:15
| Birmingham City | 9 | - | 1 | Liverpool |
Starting Lineup
| 1 |  |
Doug Rudham |
| 2 |  |
Ray Lambert |
| 3 |  |
Frank Lock |
| 4 |  |
Barry Wilkinson |
| 5 |  |
Laurie Hughes (c) |
| 6 |  |
Geoff Twentyman |
| 7 |  |
Jimmy Payne |
| 8 |  |
Eric Anderson |
| 9 |  |
Billy Liddell |
| 10 |  |
John Evans |
| 11 |  |
Alan A'Court |
Goals
- Billy Liddell 19'
Opposition goals
- Jackie Lane 1'
- Eddie Brown 11'
- Eddie Brown 16'
- Gordon Astall 27'
- Gordon Astall 49'
- Peter Murphy 54'
- Alexander Govan 77'
- Peter Murphy 84'
- Eddie Brown 85'
Notes
- - Average age of the Liverpool starting lineup: 27.26
- - Average age of the Birmingham City starting lineup: 27.64
- - Liverpool league position after match: 14
- - Birmingham City league position after match: 13
- - Click here to view the full league table after the match.
- - The surface was wet on top and rock-hard underneath, but Alan A' Court says Birmingham also had the same difficulties: "We were slipping and sliding all over the place and went three goals down in the first fifteen minutes. Billy Liddell pulled one back for us and I still say that was the best of the ten! He kept his balance beautifully on that surface, turned like an ice-skater and hit a screamer into the top corner of the net. It was a one-off game. I cannot explain why it happened. The game kept slipping away, literally."
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Other details
- Manager: Don Welsh
- Opposition manager: Arthur Turner
- Referee: McCabe G
- Attendance: 17,500
- Half-time score: 4
- 1 - Game number: 2156
- League game number: 1963
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