30th April

Goss makes history
1994 - Norwich City’s Jeremy Goss became the last player to score in front of the standing Kop as the Canaries won 1-0. Goss said: “I’ve put that day down as the proudest moment of my footballing career.” The very last person to score was actually Kopite John Garner who took to the field in an odd outfit that incorporated a fez, dodging stewards and coppers to net in front of those left long after the match had ended.

For the 97
1989 - We played our first game since Hillsborough, at Celtic in aid of the Hillsborough Disaster Appeal. John Aldridge came off the bench to net a brace, to add to goals from Kenny Dalglish and Ian Rush on an emotional day as the reds won 4-0.

Not going to Moscow
2008 - We eventually lost 3-2 after extra time to Chelsea in the second leg of our Champions League Semi-final, having been held to a 1-1 draw in the Anfield meeting. Martin Škrtel had to be taken off injured early on, before Didier Drogba opened the scoring. Fernando Torres equalised to take the tie beyond the allotted three hours, but Frank Lampard then converted a spot-kick, one of his eight strikes past us, after substitute Sami Hyypiä had tripped Michael Ballack. Drogba added another of his eleven goals against the reds before Ryan Babel struck a late 35-yard consolation as we ended the Champions League campaign on 28 goals, the most of any club. This was his seventh goal from off the bench that season, equalling a club record, while John Arne Riise played his 348th and last reds game.

Clinching the title
1966 - We clinched our seventh League title as Roger Hunt bagged a brace in our 2-1 defeat of Chelsea at Anfield despite a Bert Murray equaliser after an hour.
1988 - We also played the Blues, with John Barnes equalising with a 30-yard free-kick after Gordon Durie’s penalty at Stamford Bridge, one of his five strikes against the reds, in our first game since we clinched our seventeenth League title. Peter Beardsley had a late spot-kick saved that would have handed us victory.

1983 - We claimed our fourteenth championship with three games to play, despite Steve Archibald bagging two of his six goals past us in our 2-0 defeat at Tottenham Hotspur, as our closest rivals Manchester United dropped points at Norwich City meaning that no team could catch us.
1927 - We also faced Spurs in the top flight, with Dick Edmed bagging the only goal of the game at Anfield.

Digger the best
1988 - John Barnes was named as Footballer of the Year by the Football Writers’ Association, to add to his PFA award. Alan Hansen finished as runner-up with 96% of the votes going to reds, and Barnes himself claiming two thirds of the nominations.
2000 - Sami Hyypiä and future red Harry Kewell were named in the PFA Team of the Year.

Three-ton Mo
2023 – Mohamed Salah reached 300 reds appearances as we beat Tottenham Hotspur at Anfield by the odd goal in seven. We raced into a three-goal lead through Curtis Jones, Luis Díaz and a Salah spot-kick. Harry Kane bagged the most recent of his nine goals past us before the break, with Son Heung-min netting one of his six against the reds in the second half. Ex-Toffee Richarlison nodded in a stoppage-time leveller, but Diogo Jota had the late, late final say.

Happy birthdays
1931 – Left-winger Mervyn Jones was born in Bangor, one of the smallest players to ever play for the club at just five feet four inches. He signed from Bangor City in November 1951, moving on to Southampton in July 1953 after just five reds outings.
1991 – Former Icelandic reserves midfielder Victor Pálsson was born in Reykjavik. He joined the reds from AGF Århus in January 2009 but failed to make the first team, joining Hibernian two years later after a loan spell with Dagenham & Redbridge.
1992 - First Team Lead Physical Performance Coach Ruben Peeters was born in Belgium. He joined the reds in the summer of 2024.

Storming back to the top flight
1962 - Roger Hunt and Alan A’Court both struck in our 2-1 win over Charlton Athletic, bringing us to 68 League goals at Anfield for the season, a club record. We were presented with the Second Division title that day.

Red centurions
2005 - John Arne Riise played his 200th reds game as Steven Gerrard equalised with a 35-yard thunderbolt past future reds stopper Brad Jones in a 1-1 League draw with Middlesbrough at Anfield. Szilárd Németh had given the visitors an early lead.
1949 – Albert Stubbins reached a century of reds outings, netting after Jack Balmer had opened the scoring late on as we won 2-0 at Burnley.

For the Saint
1973 - A testimonial match for Ian St. John was staged as the reds beat Chelsea 4-2 at Anfield, with the Saint grabbing a brace and Brian Hall and Roger Hunt also netting.
1924 - We played in another testimonial, drawing 1-1 at Aberdeen in a game staged for the Dons’ Scottish international defender John Hutton.
1951 - Our other such game on this day saw Billy Liddell strike in a 1-1 draw at Brighton & Hove Albion, in a game in aid of Harry Baldwin, Jack Ball and Jack Dugnolle.

Most recent wins
1986 - Our most recent first-class victory on this day was a 2-0 League win at Leicester City. Goals from Ian Rush and Ronnie Whelan kept us on course for the double.
2022 – Naby Keïta struck the only goal of our League visit to Newcastle United, his last ever reds strike.

Double farewell
1909 – Winger Jack Cox played his 361st and final reds game as we won 1-0 at Newcastle United, with centre-half Alex Raisbeck appearing for the 341st and last time. This result was enough to keep us in the top flight, thanks to a goal from ex-Toon inside-left ‘Wee’ Ronald Orr. He had bagged eighty goals since signing from Blackpool for £150 in December 1897, helping us to two League titles and the Second Division championship before returning to Bloomfield Road as Player/Manager that May.

Ins and outs
2018 – The club announced that Assistant Manager Željko Buvač was to take a leave of absence for the rest of the season, with his departure later made permanent.
1906 – Full-back Percy Saul signed from Plymouth Argyle, netting twice in 83 reds games, moving on to Coventry City in July 1909.
1898 - Centre-half Alex Raisbeck signed from Hibernian for £350. He played 341 times in eleven years, netting nineteen times and becoming our first skipper to lift the League title in 1901. He won a further League title five years later, as well as a Second Division championship, returning to the club in 1939 as a scout until his death ten years later.
1897 – Inside-forward Willie Michael returned to Heart Of Midlothian. He had joined the reds from Tynecastle in May 1896, scoring five times in 23 reds games.
1894 – Keeper Billy McOwen left the reds to sign as an amateur for Blackpool, as well as returning to his dentistry career, after eleven clean sheets in 27 appearances since arriving from Darwen in July 1892, helping us to claim the Second Division title.

Glory for the kids
1996 - We took a step towards winning the FA Youth Cup for the first of three times to date. We won 2-0 at West Ham United, going on to win the return leg 2-1 at Anfield. Jamie Carragher and Michael Owen were both in the victorious side.

Shanks at Wembley
1938 - Bill Shankly won an FA Cup winner’s medal as Preston North End beat Huddersfield Town 1-0 at Wembley thanks to a penalty in the last minute of extra time, making up for their defeat the year before. This was the first Final to be televised in its entirety.

International debuts
2003 - Future reds midfielder Xabi Alonso made his senior international debut as Spain beat Ecuador 4-0 in a friendly in Madrid. Fellow future red Fernando Morientes grabbed a treble, taking him onto twenty senior international goals, after just 28 caps.
1997 - Bolo Zenden won his first cap for the Netherlands as they thumped San Marino 6-0 in a World Cup qualifier.

Other reds games
1977 – We beat Ipswich Town 2-1 at Anfield. Ray Kennedy and Kevin Keegan scored after the break, before future red John Wark netted the first of his four goals against the reds from the spot.
1960 – We defeated Sunderland 3-0 in L4 to finish our Second Division campaign in third. Dave Hickson, Roger Hunt and Jimmy Melia all scored.
1955 – Birmingham City held us to a 2-2 draw at home in the Second Division. Billy Liddell struck twice, including one from the spot as Gordon Astall netted for the Blues with Eddie Brown nabbing the last of his four against us.

1938 – We lost 1-0 at Arsenal.
1932 – Gordon Hodgson bagged a brace as we won 2-1 at Derby County.
1921 – Bolton Wanderers won 3-2 at Anfield despite taking a two-goal lead through Dick Johnson and Billy Lacey. Joe Smith struck two of his twelve goals past us, with David Jack netting the first of his nine.
1910 – Ronald Orr and Jack Parkinson were on target as we beat Aston Villa 2-0 in L4 to finish the season in second place behind the visitors. Keeper Sam Hardy suffered a wrist injury in the first half, so captain Arthur Goddard had to take his place between the sticks.

Managerial ins and outs
2007 - Sammy Lee was named as Manager of Bolton Wanderers following the departure of Sam Allardyce. He was only given fourteen games in charge, of which they lost just four, before leaving the club by mutual consent that October. On the same day, Mark Wright was sacked as Chester City boss after fourteen months in charge of the League Two outfit following a poor run of form, with just one game of the season remaining.

2014 – Ex-reserves defender Phil Brazier left as Manager of Northern Premier League side Marine by mutual consent.
1982 - Roy Hodgson was sacked as Manager of Bristol City. He had originally joined as Bobby Houghton’s Assistant, but only lasted four months in the top job.

Half a century for Gary Mac
1997 - Future red Gary McAllister won his fiftieth cap, captaining Scotland in their 2-1 World Cup qualifying win in Sweden. Stig Inge Bjørnebye, Mark Kennedy, Jamie Redknapp, future reds Sami Hyypiä, Paul Ince, Jari Litmanen and Christian Ziege, and ex-reds Ray Houghton and Steve Staunton all also represented their countries in qualifiers that day, while future reds goalkeeping coach Cláudio Taffarel appeared in Brazil’s 4-0 friendly thumping of Mexico in Miami.

Rushie yet again
1985 - Ian Rush scored in his third consecutive international, bagging a brace as Wales beat Spain 3-0 in a World Cup qualifier in Wrexham. Future red Mark Walters represented England Under-21’s on the same day.

Djibril on target
2003 - Future red Djibril Cissé netted in France’s 5-0 friendly defeat of Egypt at the Stade de France. On the same day, Steve Finnan won his 22nd Republic of Ireland cap, and last as a Fulham player, in their 1-0 friendly defeat of Norway at Lansdowne Road. Ex-red Øyvind Leonhardsen and future red Robbie Keane also played. Also on the international scoresheet that day were Milan Baroš and Vladimír Šmicer as the Czech Republic beat Turkey 4-0 in Teplice. Ex-red Jari Litmanen netted in Finland’s 3-0 defeat of Iceland in Helsinki. Meanwhile, Salif Diao, Alou Diarra, El-Hadji Diouf, Sami Hyypiä, Anthony Le Tallec, Florent Sinama-Pongolle, Grégory Vignal, future reds Yossi Benayoun, Charles Itandje, Ragnar Klavan, Andriy Voronin and Bolo Zenden, and ex-red Don Hutchison all also featured for their countries.
2001 – Future reds Le Tallec and Sinama-Pongolle both played as France Under-16’s beat Russia 2-0 in the Quarter-final of the European Championships Finals in York, on their way to reaching the Final.

More farewells
1955 – Ex-reds forward Bert Goode died in Wrexham. He struck once in seven reds outings after signing from his hometown club in May 1908, moving on to Wrexham in June 1910. He scored 136 goals in 276 matches in his three spells at Wrexham, including playing in their first ever Football League match in August 1921, and is remembered as one of the greatest strikers in their history.
2011 – Australian keeper Dean Bouzanis left the club by mutual consent. He joined League One side Oldham Athletic seven months later.

Player of the year
2008 - On-loan winger Paul Anderson was named Swansea City’s Young Player of the Year after helping them to the League One title.

Also in international action
1952 – Billy Liddell played for Scotland as they thumped the USA 6-0 in a friendly at Hampden Park.
1980 – Future red Mark Lawrenson featured in Alan Kelly Senior’s only game as Republic of Ireland boss as they beat Switzerland 2-0 in a friendly at Lansdowne Road.
1991 – Future red David James played as England Under-21’s drew a European Championships qualifier 2-2 in Turkey.

1993 – Future reds Assistant Manager Christian Damiano took charge of France Under-16’s in their 1-1 draw with Italy in a European Championships Finals group game in Istanbul.
1998 – Future red Milan Baroš featured as the Czech Republic Under-17’s lost a tournament game 2-1 to Sweden in Slovenia. Meanwhile, future reds goalkeeping coach Cláudio Taffarel played in Brazil’s 1-0 friendly defeat in Argentina.

2002 – Future red Arnaud Bühler played for Switzerland Under-17’s as they beat Portugal 1-0 in a European Championships Finals group game in Denmark. On the same day, future red Carl Medjani captained France Under-17’s as they drew 0-0 with Ukraine in the same competition.
2004 – David Raven featured as England Under-19’s beat Denmark 3-0 in a European Championships qualifier in Slovenia.
2015 – Future red Kamil Grabara played for Poland Under-16’s in their 2-1 friendly defeat in Israel.
2019 – Isaac Mabaya played for England Under-15’s as they lost a friendly 3-0 to the Czech Republic.