Ian Callaghan

We've got contributions by players from all clubs, all sorts of clubs.

We've got Ian Callaghan, Mark Lawrenson, Seamus Coleman, Joe Royal, Colin Harvey, Gary Lineker.

Michael's wonderful shots of various sequences.

We've got his...

but through intelligence, honesty, aggression and an almost obsessive determination to improve, he became one of the greatest defenders in Liverpool history.

He made 737 appearances for the club, only Ian Callaghan made more.

He won cups at home and abroad, threw his body into challenges when his legs were cramping in Istanbul and spent 16 years demanding standards from everyone around him.

He was not always elegant, he was not always appreciated, but if Liverpool needed somebody to defend the goal as if his life depended upon it, Jamie Carragher was ready.

He had spent his entire senior career at Liverpool.

16 years, 737 appearances, 5 goals, countless blocks, tackles, clearances and instructions.

Only Ian Callaghan had represented Liverpool more often.

Jamie Carragher and Steven Gerrard

For anybody that wants to see a well-worked free-kick routine, go back to the 1965 game between Liverpool and Inter Milan and look at the free-kick that Liverpool came up with at Anfield in the 3-1 victory.

Ian Callaghan went running at the ball, jumped the ball, I can't remember who it was, played the ball in, but it played to one of the other guys and put the ball straight back into Cali's path while he was still running after jumping over the ball.

And he knocked it into the corner.

It was a beautiful free kick.

And I knew these players, and they, and we knew they could play.

Ian Callaghan.

I mean, crumbs, you, you had Tommy Smith there that, that, that, that pick you up after he knocked you off the field.

So-

If you could survive the boys' pen at Anfield, then you learned to think on your feet.

And watching that side, uh, Ian Callaghan, Peter Thompson, Ian St John, Roger Hunt, uh, Gordon Milne, Willie Stevenson-

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