Past playersAlf Hobson

He played in the first 25 games of that campaign before being replaced by Arthur Riley, who was himself replaced by Dirk Kemp for the final seven matches of the season.

The Reds only just avoided relegation and the veteran Riley was brought back after the club's worst run of the season, six First Division matches during December and January in which only a single point was won and Hobson had to pick the ball out of his net 14 times.

South Africans Riley and Kemp shared the goalkeeping duties the next season, with Hobson playing just once, at Charlton Athletic in the middle of January 1938.

That was his final league appearance for the club but amazingly he did play again more than eight years later, although the Second World War took place during the interim period, Hobson playing 172 games for Liverpool in wartime.

He was between the posts for an FA Cup fourth-round tie at Bolton Wanderers but sadly it was not a happy experience for him or his colleagues as Liverpool were thrashed 5-0.

FA Cup matches were played over two legs in the first season after the war and by the time Bolton visited Anfield just four days later, Fred Nickson was wearing the goalkeeper's jersey.