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Stoke City

Starting Lineup (Average age 25.55)

1	Ray Clemence
2	Chris Lawler
3	Alec Lindsay
4	Tommy Smith (c)
5	Larry Lloyd
6	Emlyn Hughes
7	Kevin Keegan
8	Peter Cormack
9	Steve Heighway
10	Phil Boersma
11	Ian Callaghan

Substitutes

12

Trevor Storton

Goals (Assists in brackets)

Emlyn Hughes 66′ (Alec Lindsay)
Ian Callaghan 90′ (Emlyn Hughes)

Opposition Lineup (Average age 28.42)

Opposition goals

Jimmy Greenhoff 34′

Opposition substitutions

Terry Conroy replaced by Jimmy Robertson 72′

Notes

- This turned out to be Gordon Banks' last appearance in competitive football as the next day after this match he was returning home from the Victoria ground having received treatment as a consequence of the Liverpool game when he was involved in a traffic accident that resulted in him losing the sight in his right eye.

Other details

Manager: Bill Shankly

Opposition manager: Tony Waddington

Referee: Kirkpatrick RB

Attendance: 45,604

Half-time score: 0 - 1

Game number: 3058

League game number: 2712

Played towards Kop: Second half

Liverpool league position: 1st

Stoke City league position: 20th

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Pos	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
1	Liverpool	14	9	3	2	28	14	+14	21
2	Arsenal	15	8	4	3	21	12	+9	20
3	Chelsea	14	7	4	3	24	15	+9	18
4	Leeds U	14	7	4	3	26	17	+9	18
5	Everton	14	7	3	4	16	11	+5	17
6	Norwich C	14	7	3	4	17	19	-2	17
7	Wolves	14	6	4	4	26	23	+3	16
8	Ipswich T	14	6	4	4	19	16	+3	16
9	Tottenham H	14	7	2	5	19	16	+3	16
10	West Ham U	14	6	3	5	26	19	+7	15
11	Newcastle U	14	7	1	6	23	21	+2	15
12	Sheffield U	14	6	3	5	16	19	-3	15
13	Southampton	14	3	6	5	11	13	-2	12
14	West Brom	14	4	4	6	13	17	-4	12
15	Coventry C	14	4	4	6	12	17	-5	12
16	Derby Co	14	5	2	7	12	21	-9	12
17	Man City	14	5	1	8	18	25	-7	11
18	Birmingham C	15	3	4	8	18	25	-7	10
19	Leicester C	14	3	4	7	15	21	-6	10
20	Stoke C	14	3	3	8	22	26	-4	9
21	Man Utd	14	2	5	7	11	17	-6	9
22	Crystal P	14	2	5	7	10	19	-9	9