When Ray Clemence first played in goal for Liverpool, his standing at the club was so uncertain he wasn’t even given his own jersey.
‘They gave me Tommy Lawrence’s,’ recalled Clemence back in 1999.
‘It was so big that when it was wet it came down to my knees.’
With news of his passing at the age of 72 today, Liverpool will mourn a footballer who was to become and remain one of their own.
From the moment he took the great Lawrence’s place for good in 1970 to leaving for Tottenham after the 1981 European Cup Final win against Real Madrid in Paris, Clemence played more than 650 games and missed just six.