A fascinating insight into Billy Liddell by his sister.

[Arnie]

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LFChistory.net launched billyliddell.com on 10th of January 2009 when Billy would have celebrated his 87th birthday.

 

Rena Liddell has a surname that holds great affection for Liverpool supporters. Despite being seventeen years younger Rena was close to her big brother, Billy, who had earlier moved from Scotland to Liverpool. In 1951 Rena and the Liddell family moved to Liverpool for Billy to look after them.

 

 

"Bill was a pathfinder in the RAF in the war. When I was in school in Dunfermilne, I used to look up and say: 'That's my brother up there.' He was a navigator, but we used to say: 'How come on earth did you manage to navigate?', because he was hopeless in a car. He didn't have a sense of direction and would always get lost. What he used to say was: 'There's no streets up there, you see.'"

 

Read the interview with Rena Liddell

 

LFChistory.net is an accessible website for stats and historical articles on Liverpool FC. LFChistory.net has all the results from official games, every goalscorer, every single line-up and profiles of all players who have appeared on Liverpool's teamsheet since the 1892/93 season.

 

Random Quote from Billyliddell.com:

 

"When the ball came out of the crowd the referees attention was drawn to some defect in the ball. Seemingly Billy had burst the ball with his head, so the ref had to call for a new ball. I know I have written many things over the years watching football, but never have I seen a ball burst with the power of a header. Liddell was known for bursting balls with both his right and left feet, but with his head? I guess that's just another bit of footballing history from Liddell, that will eventually have people in the future doubting the power of this man."

 

Cheers, Arnie editor of LFChistory.net and billyliddell.com

[Tones]

Thanks Arnie will have a read of this at lunchtime.

[Damian_de]

Is that 2 articles in a week? Now you're just spoiling us!

[Wilbur]

Thank you for the great article - nice photographs, too.