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1st Division
Blundell Park | Sat 27 Mar 1948 at 15:00 UK local time
| Grimsby Town | 0 | - | 2 | Liverpool |
Starting Lineup
| 1 |  |
Cyril Sidlow |
| 2 |  |
Jim Harley |
| 3 |  |
Ray Lambert |
| 4 |  |
Phil Taylor |
| 5 |  |
Bill Jones |
| 6 |  |
Bob Paisley |
| 7 |  |
Billy Liddell |
| 8 |  |
Jack Balmer (c) |
| 9 |  |
Albert Stubbins |
| 10 |  |
Willie Fagan |
| 11 |  |
Eddie Spicer |
Goals (Assists in brackets)
- Jack Balmer 8' (Albert Stubbins)
- Albert Stubbins 17' (Eddie Spicer)
Notes
- - Average age of the Liverpool starting lineup: 29.03
- - Average age of the Grimsby Town starting lineup: 27.82
- - Liverpool league position after match: 14
- - Grimsby Town league position after match: 22
- - Click here to view the full league table after the match.
- - The Liverpool Echo on the Saturday first credited this goal to Eddie Spicer but had changed the scorer to Stubbins in the Monday Echo. The Liverpool Evening Express on Monday also credited Stubbins with the goal: ‘the Spicer header which Stubbins, I learned afterwards actually kneed into the net so giving Albert his eighth goal in four games.’
Other details
- Manager: George Kay
- Opposition manager: Charles Spencer
- Referee: Leafe RJ
- Attendance: 15,781
- Half-time score: 0
- 2 - Game number: 1859
- League game number: 1683
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