The footballer Peter Thompson, who has died aged 76, was a stellar figure at Liverpool for much of Bill Shankly’s fruitful reign as manager, both when the club first shot to the summit in the mid-1960s and then when Shankly assembled a second, different looking side in the early 70s.
Before Thompson was forced to leave Liverpool through injury in 1974 he won two league championships, in 1964 and 1966, and was a key figure in their first ever FA Cup triumph in 1965. By the time he left Anfield he was considered one of the club’s greats.
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