Gerry Byrne RIP

[dorgie]

Gerry Byrne as died aged 77. Always remembered for playing through the '65 Cup Final with a broken collar bone but a great servant to the club.

 

RIP

[Noel Street]

s*** that RIP

[Bogman]

b****x.

 

RIP

[Nerik]

YNWA Gerry. One of the men of Shankly's best.

[muleskinner]

Sad news, one of the favourites amongst the old men of my family. Proper hard nut.

[stonty]

RIP

 

YNWA

[Billy Talbot]

RIP Gerry.

[lfc4eva99]

RIP

[charlie clown]

Sad news. .Walk on.

[Billy Dane]

RIP, he'll be playing for Shanks again.

[Murphman]

A man of iron and a REALLY good footballer too. RIP.

[smithdown]

Callaghan - "Shankly said in 65 he should have got all eleven medals"

[New York Red]

RIP. Another legend gone.

[Red Yoda]

RIP

[AnfieldCop]

RIP YNWA

[Sir Tokyo Sexwale]

Didn't he carry the Cup out before the Inter Semi Final that year?

 

Way before my time but his name to me is as familiar as St John, Cally or any of the other true legends

[Crazy Horse]

RIP Gerry. I wonder if the club do much to preserve the memories of people like him? An oral history archive project for the Shankly/Paisley years would be brilliant. There are fewer and fewer of them left, but I think people will still be talking about Shankly's team in 100 years or more.

[New York Red]

Jurgen praying for him right before the applause at the match. What a phenomenally cool guy. He never ceases to amaze me.

[Metro]

Apparently it was Alzheimers. I remember when we were in the second division and we had to play at Charlton. It was the height of the Asian Flu epidemic and Liverpool tried to get the game postponed as they had half dozen players down with it. The league said No and we had to play the youngsters. Gerry Byrne was one of them - think it was his first game - and I remember Gerry did something that centre half Laurie Hughes took exception to and he didn't half bawl Byrne out. Believe we lost 5-1 in the end but I know that the crowd was 35,000 at the Valley!