Image from makeameme.org No, your eyes are not deceiving you ……..it really is Ken Dodd (much later Sir Ken) in a Liverpool FC strip running out of the Anfield tunnel with Bill Shankly’s players in 1964 (Ian St John can just be glimpsed at the back). Shankly liked nothing more than a bit of laughter to boost morale and when Ken dropped in to meet his football favourites he quickly donned a Liverpool strip and stepped out onto the hallowed turf once trod by one of his heroes, the great Billy Liddell. During the 1960s the club’s rise to prominence was matched by Ken’s ascent to the showbiz heights as a stand up comedian par excellence, a TV and radio star and an operatically-trained vocalist
Much broadcast debate and column inches right now devoted to the goalscoring talents of Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah and Tottenham’s Harry Kane as they chase the Golden Boot award. Salah is also pursuing Ian Rush’s club record of 47 goals in a season, in all competitions, which the great Wales striker set in 1984. Yet such modern day excitement serves to underline the phenomenal goal output of Dixie Dean. In season 1927-28 he bagged 60 goals for champions Everton in League games alone and hit a century that season in a total of 56 club and representative matches. He also scored 37 that tricks in his club and international career and of all players who have scored 200 goals or more in the histor
