Past playersDuncan McLean

The Scot scored four goals, a decent total for a full-back but not too surprising as he was the club's penalty taker during that inaugural league season.

McLean was always a regular in the first team during his distinguished Reds career, though his adventurous play seemed to displease the club directors, judging by these programme notes for a game in April 1893: "Why will McLean persist in marring his really brilliant and effective play by getting too far away from his own goal?

"By all means back up the halves, but a full-back has no business whatever amongst the forwards, except on the defensive. If Mac will get rid of this one fault he will be as good a back as there is in England today."

Liverpool struggled right from the start in their first top-division season – 1894-95 – winning just one of their first 17 league matches, and were unsurprisingly relegated back to the Second Division.

This proved to be McLean's final season for the club and he joined Scottish Cup winners Edinburgh St Bernard's, skippering the side and finally gaining international recognition.