Past playersSam Raybould

He was top scorer with 17 when the Reds won the league championship for the first time in 1901 but his most prolific period came two years later when he grabbed 32 goals from 34 league and cup games.

After becoming the first player to score 30 goals for the club in one season, Raybould got himself in trouble with the football authorities by agreeing to 'financial inducements' to sign for Portsmouth.

Pompey had tried to use the lack of regulations of transfers between the Football and Southern Leagues to their advantage, but their approach was deemed illegal and Raybould was suspended for seven months for agreeing to the deal.

His absence proved significant as Liverpool slumped from fifth place a year before to be surprising relegation candidates. The ban lasted until January 1904, but the forward seemed to have been forgiven for wishing to move because he was selected for the first team straight away.

Even his four goals from 15 games towards the end of the season could not prevent the dreaded drop into the Second Division, though.

Raybould scored 19 league goals as the club made an immediate return to the top flight and made an important contribution when the First Division title was won just a year later by scoring 10 goals in 25 matches.

The last of his 211 league appearances for Liverpool came on the final day of the 1906-07 season at home to Sheffield United and he marked the occasion in typical fashion with a goal, the last of the 130 he scored for the club.

At 32 years old, Raybould left the Reds in 1907 to join Sunderland.