Liverpool Football Club is unlike any other team in the world. Founded by the city's mayor in 1892, it would in time become a sporting powerhouse, blessed with some of the greatest players ever to grace a pitch and managers who would write their names into the annals of the beautiful game. In the latest bookazine from the makers of FourFourTwo, you'll discover the story of this iconic institution, take to the field with its 50 finest players and relive the triumphs and tragedies that have shaped a club adored the world over.
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FourFourTwoPresents: The Story of Liverpool
THE BIRTH OF LIVERPOOL FC • How one of the world’s most iconic clubs owes its origins to its closest rival
THE LORD MAYOR’S SHOW
ANFIELD’S GOLDEN AGE • An unprecedented era of success in Europe began in one modest boot room on Merseyside
ONE DAY AT WEMBLEY
THE NIGHT OF THE SUPERSUB
HEAD OVER HEELS IN LOVE • 53 years ago, a lean 20-year-old made his Liverpool bow following an almighty leap from the Fourth Division, but Kevin Keegan’s incredible success would extend far beyond the Kop during a fascinating career of pop singles, punch-ups and cracking perms
THE HEYSEL STADIUM DISASTER • The tragedy that overshadowed the 1985 European Cup final was blamed on Liverpool fans, but the truth of what really happened wasn’t quite so black and white
“I JUST WANTED TO MAKE EVERTON PAY” • Over 15 seasons and two spells, Ian Rush carved out an incredible legacy as Liverpool’s greatest ever goalscorer–fuelled by a burning desire to punish his boyhood club…
THE HILLSBOROUGH DISASTER • 97 innocent people dead. 27 years for the truth to be heard. Hillsborough is the worst establishment cover-up in British history…
WARNING SIGNS AT HILLSBOROUGH STADIUM
HILLSBOROUGH STADIUM • The crush occurred in the Leppings Lane stand, which was allocated to Liverpool supporters. A sudden influx of 2,000 fans led to people being forced against metal fencing
CREATING THE ‘SELF-PITY CITY’
THE SPION KOP • This famous stand witnessed so many iconic moments
BRUCE GROBBELAAR • “I peed in a bottle, poured it all down the posts at Anfield, then Liverpool went on an unbeaten run and won the Premier League”
50 GREATEST REDS OF ALL TIME • Well, we did it. We sifted through all the Anfield icons and selected the top 50 (in our humble opinion). Let the arguments begin…
THE FORGOTTEN BALLON D’OR • Years before Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo raised the award’s profile forever, Michael Owen was crowned Europe’s best player in 2001. He and Jamie Carragher talk FFT through his annus mirabilis and ponder why he never got the credit he deserved
CAPTAIN MARVEL • Steven Gerrard joined Liverpool as a nine-year-old boy and left as a legend–and possibly the Reds’ greatest ever player
11 MEMORABLE LIVERPOOL MOMENTS • We select 11 of the most important events in the history of the club, on and off the pitch
“I WAS IN A TRANCE IN ISTANBUL. I WAS TELLING MYSELF, ‘YOU’VE WAITED FOR THIS MOMENT YOUR WHOLE LIFE - DON'T F**K IT UP’” • The most dramatic match of the noughties produced an unlikely hero. In his own words, Jerzy Dudek explains how he overcame hard times at Liverpool to become a Champions League legend–and later almost hit Rafa Benítez in the face
LIVERPOOL LADIES FC • How this pioneering team overcame early setbacks to reach the heights of women’s football
TOP 10 MANAGERS • Throughout its storied history Liverpool has been led by some of the game’s most iconic figures, men who embraced the city and its people and gave their all for the club in the pursuit of glory
HOW TRENT REVOLUTION ISED THE FULL-BACK • Trent Alexander-Arnold has smashed Premier...