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The area of mostly Victorian terraced streets which surround the Anfield Stadium in Liverpool is undergoing a much needed refurbishment. Some of the gable ends of these properties have been professionally decorated with murals of Liverpool players , past and present.
Over the next couple of weeks, I will be putting these artworks onto Flickr.
Starting tomorrow, with my favourite ever player...Ian Rush...this mural is directly opposite the main stand of Anfield stadium.
Liverpool FC aerial image - Anfield Stadium. Home to Liverpool Football Club since 1892. Capacity 61,000. Pep Guardiola called it 'the toughest ground in the world.' #LiverpoolFC #aerial #image #Anfield #football #Liverpool #stadium
Aerial view of Anfield football ground
It was fabulous atmosphere building, even thou it was an hour and a half before the team passed. P x
Liverpool Football Club's Anfield Ground, from Anfield Road with the Sybil Road Mural of Jordan Henderson on the gable end of a house.
Taken in December 2021.
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65 more days until Borussia Dortmund and Liverpool FC clash at BoA Stadium . . Tick, tock . . Tick, tock :) :) . . .. . #mls4clt #icc2018charlotte (Billboard is located off of I-77 SB/South CLT)
20 years ago families in Liverpool were devestated by the tragic loss of life at Hillsborough. 96 people died. RIP. YNWA.
This was taken at Anfield during the service for the 96.
2019 Football Champions of Europe - for the sixth time.
This one's not my own photo, but what the heck?!
I feel a footballing feat as special as this should be shared. //8^D
2019 Champion's League Semi-final - 2nd Leg - 7/5/19 @ Anfield.
Liverpool (we) won on the night and therefore won on aggregate 4-3 ~~~~ meaning we are in THE 2019 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE CUP FINAL.
I have been a lifelong Liverpool fan, and I was very lucky to watch my team play throughout the 70's, 80s, and 90s, seeing them win 11 League Titles. I went to 5 European Cup Finals, FA Cup, League Cup, and numerous Charity Shields at Wembley.
Sadly, I was at the Heysel & Hillsborough Diasters too.
Since then, the women's game has evolved and is now in the mainstream.
I feel I've evolved too ...
Really enjoyed the game, which I dragged Lise along to watch.
Finished 1 - 1 X
Anyone who knows me knows that I have supported Liverpool FC man and boy. Today we took another step closer to Wembley with a win in the FA Cup. If truth be told it might be two steps closer as we’ve drawn Norwich in the next round😂I’d love for us to win it again. It’s never really been high up on the club’s priorities in the last few years but there’s something about the Cup. And as you can see I do love a cup final rosette. Always have. Which one of these will be the lucky one? Might need to wear them all . #037 #365photochallenge #365days #365photoproject #liverpoolfc #facup #lfc
Emlyn Walter Hughes, OBE (28 August 1947 – 9 November 2004) was an English footballer who captained both the England national team and the much-decorated Liverpool team of the 1970s.
Emlyn Hughes, was the son of Fred Hughes, a Great Britain, Wales, Barrow, and Workington Town rugby league footballer.[1] After being refused a trial by local side Barrow, Hughes joined Blackpool, who were then a top-flight side. He made his début for Blackpool in 1964 and played alongside the likes of Jimmy Armfield and Alan Ball. Hughes was then an inside forward, but Blackpool turned him into a left-half, and as such he made his début for them in the 1965–66 season.
In February 1967, after just 28 appearances for Blackpool, he signed for Liverpool in the February for £65,000, (based on average increases in earnings, this would be approximately £1,770,000 in 2009).[2] Manager Bill Shankly was stopped in his car by the police as he drove Hughes to Liverpool for the first time and said: "Don't you know who I've got in this car? The captain of England!" The policeman peered through the window and said that he didn't recognise the man, to which Shankly replied: "No, but you will!" In the future Hughes did indeed go on to captain his country.
Hughes made his Reds début in the 2–1 league win over Stoke City at Anfield on 4 March 1967, he scored his first goal in the 6–0 thrashing of Newcastle United, again, at Anfield on 26 August the same year.
Hughes settled into the midfield at Liverpool during a transitional period for the club, earning the nickname Crazy Horse after an illegal rugby tackle on Newcastle United winger Albert Bennett. Liverpool did not win any honours in his first four seasons there but Hughes was seen as a demonstration of the future which Shankly had in mind. His versatility was noticed too – he filled in at left back and central defence, a trait which was spotted by England coach Alf Ramsey in 1969.
Ramsey gave Hughes his début on 5 November of that year, playing him at left back in a friendly against Holland in the Olympic Stadium, Amsterdam. England won 1–0. He played in the next game in the same position. Hughes scored his only international goal against Wales; the opening goal of a 3–0 Home International victory at Ninian Park in 1972.
For Hughes, 1970 was an important year in his career. After Liverpool were humiliated by Second division side Watford in the quarter finals of the FA Cup, Shankly made a decision to clear out much of the ageing playing staff which had won two League Championship titles, an FA Cup and reached a European Cup Winners Cup final and recruit new, younger blood to take Liverpool back to the helm of the English game. Hughes, still not 23, survived the cull – as did the likes of Ian Callaghan and Tommy Smith – and a batch of fresh faces which would shape Liverpool's success in the 1970s began to arrive.
Meanwhile, England were about to fly to Mexico and defend the World Cup won four years earlier. Hughes had six caps by the time Ramsey included him in his provisional squad of 27 which flew to South America for altitude-acclimatising friendly games against Colombia and Ecuador. Hughes featured in neither game, but was selected in the final squad of 22. He was the youngest selected by Ramsey, and the only Liverpool player in the squad.
Hughes was one of only two outfield players (along with Nobby Stiles) who did not feature in any game as England progressed to the quarter finals where they were defeated by West Germany. Question marks were raised about Ramsey's substitution decisions during the game, with much attention paid to the decisions to withdraw Bobby Charlton and Martin Peters in the second half, but then to let first choice left back Terry Cooper remain on the pitch for the whole 120 minutes when he was clearly exhausted, rather than allow his natural replacement Hughes to take over. Hughes would ultimately never feature at a World Cup.
In 2008, Tommy Smith claimed in his autobiography, that on 8 May 1972, Hughes told him that he had been speaking to a number of Arsenal players, and they had said that they were "willing to throw a match for £50 a man" in a vital match at Highbury which decided the title. Liverpool failed to win and the title went to Derby County. Smith wrote that he was disgusted with what Hughes said and never spoke to him again after this. Smith maintained that the only witness was Ian Callaghan. However, Smith also stated that he wasn't sure if Hughes was suggesting that they should bribe the Arsenal players, was wanting him to bribe the Arsenal players, or told him this so he would be incriminated. Smith said he never told Shankly because it would have "Broken his heart.
If Hughes' long international career would prove to be unfulfilled, his club career was about to hit every height there was. In 1971, Liverpool reached the FA Cup final, losing 2–1 after extra-time to Arsenal, who completed the then-rare 'double' of League title and F.A. Cup. Hughes was seen being barely able to control his devastation as he collected his losers' medal, upon which BBC commentator Kenneth Wolstenholme remarked: "Emlyn Hughes there, really absolutely sick."
Hughes soon established a reputation for charging upfield from his defensive midfield position on long, complicated runs, and constantly berating referees. As a footballer, he had his share of both admirers and critics – some said he was a great player, others said he was a good player in a great team.
Hughes was still a full back for England, featuring regularly in Ramsey's team. Hughes played as England's interest in the 1972 European Championships ended at the two-legged quarter final stage, with West Germany again victorious.
In 1973, Hughes won his first League Championship title with Liverpool FC and his first European honour with the UEFA Cup. He scored both goals in a memorable win over Merseyside rivals Everton at Goodison Park, and also became captain after Tommy Smith had a publicised falling-out with Shankly, who nonetheless kept him in the team. Smith and Hughes' relationship soured as a consequence, although it never affected their football.
At this stage of Hughes' career, there was a low with England to go with a high with Liverpool. In October 1973, Ramsey selected Hughes to be left back as England entertained Poland at Wembley. Victory would guarantee a place at the 1974 World Cup finals. Anything else would take Poland through.
England dominated the match but were denied constantly by the charmed antics of Polish goalkeeper Jan Tomaszewski. Then Poland had a breakaway after a misplaced tackle by Norman Hunter in the second half, and only Hughes and goalkeeper Peter Shilton were back to defend. The ball was spread across to Jan Domarski who shaped to shoot from the edge of the area. Hughes flew into a last-ditch tackle but Domarski's shot evaded his block and slipped under the body of Shilton and into the net.
England equalised through an Allan Clarke penalty but couldn't find the winning goal. Although some questioned whether Hughes' attempts at a tackle had unsighted Shilton, Hughes emerged rightly blameless for the Poland goal, with the emphasis placed on Hunter's initial mistimed tackle and Shilton's desire to hold rather than merely stop the ball, which in the end meant he did neither. Ramsey was sacked six months later.
At the end of that season, a now-famous smile was back on Hughes' face when Liverpool reached the FA Cup final and destroyed Newcastle United 3–0. Hughes, as skipper, received the trophy from The Princess Anne, whom he would encounter again later in his professional life. It was a good month for Hughes, as he was also appointed England captain – as successor to Bobby Moore – by caretaker boss Joe Mercer. Hughes led out England for the first time on 11 May 1974 in a Home International against Wales in Cardiff, which England won 2–0.
Hughes captained England for every one of Mercer's seven games in charge, and initially maintained the role when Don Revie was appointed as Ramsey's permanent successor. However, after the first two qualifiers for the 1976 European Championships, Revie decided to drop Hughes from the team. He gave the captaincy to his former Blackpool team-mate Alan Ball, and Hughes appeared only twice for England in 1975.
With his international career seemingly in tatters, Hughes nevertheless remained a solid and successful leader with Liverpool, now under the guidance of Bob Paisley following Shankly's retirement. Liverpool won nothing in 1975, but achieved another League Championship and UEFA Cup double in 1976. The following season was the most eventful in Hughes' career.
It began with a shock recall by Revie, who played Hughes in the second qualifier for the 1978 World Cup, although he did not return the captaincy to him – this was now held by Hughes' clubmate Kevin Keegan, leading to a peculiar situation of a club captain being instructed and led by one of his charges. Hughes was now predominantly a central defender, and played in a tactically-disastrous team against Italy in Rome which marked the lowest point of Revie's tenure as England manager. England lost 2–0.
Revie selected Hughes for further games through the early part of 1977, during which time Liverpool were heading towards an unprecedented 'treble' of League Championship, FA Cup and European Cup. Ultimately, they would win the title but then lose the FA Cup final to bitter rivals Manchester United, with Hughes again cutting a sickened figure as he climbed the Wembley steps to receive his losers' medal, although he did manage to lead Liverpool on a lap of honour afterwards. However, the smile was restored 4 days later when he captained Liverpool to a historic 3–1 win over Borussia Mönchengladbach in Rome to win the European Cup. His season ended with some individual glory, when he was voted the Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year.
Revie gave Hughes the England captaincy back for a Home International match against Scotland when Keegan was unavailable, before selecting him for the squad which would tour South America in the summer. During this tour, Revie secretly engineered his departure from the England job, and when Ron Greenwood took over, he returned the captaincy to Hughes. England left too much to do after the defeat to Italy to qualify for the World Cup, but Hughes nonetheless celebrated a 50th cap when England beat the Italians 2–0 in the final qualifier at Wembley at the end of 1977.
In 1978, Hughes was in the Liverpool team which lost its first ever League Cup final to Brian Clough's Nottingham Forest after a replay. The league title went to Forest too, but Liverpool managed to retain the European Cup with a 1–0 win over FC Bruges at Wembley, with Hughes lifting the trophy for a second year running. Hughes' place was now under regular threat from a talented young Scottish defender named Alan Hansen who had arrived the previous season for a mere £100,000 from Partick Thistle. The following season, Hughes made just 16 appearances, enough to earn his final title medal. Paisley decided to let him go and sold him to Wolverhampton Wanderers for £90,000 in August 1979. Hughes left Liverpool after 665 appearances and scoring 49 goals for the club. His 59 appearances for England while at Liverpool made him the club's most capped player until Welsh striker Ian Rush broke the record more than ten years later.