Tommy Smith's Dream Team

20th Jun 2010 - Latest News

Torres or Fowler? Reina or Clemence? We gave 10 Kop heroes the unenviable challenge of picking their all-time Liverpool XI. Today perhaps our most hardest ever player, Tommy Smith, takes up the challenge.

Goalkeeper: Ray Clemence. Ray was the best goalkeeper along with Gordon Banks who I ever played with.

Right-back: Steve Nicol. A great all-round player.

Left-back: Gerry Byrne. People say I was hard but Gerry played 105 minutes at Wembley with a broken collar bone.

Centre halves: The Colossus Ron Yeats and Alan Hansen. Alan is the best footballing centre-half I have ever seen. Ron was commanding in the air and his presence at the back was unbelievable.

Central midfield: Graeme Souness and Kenny Dalglish. Souness was just a great player and a leader. Dalglish has the skill and the ability to pick out a pass quicker before anyone else.

Left midfield: Ray Kennedy. Ray could read the game and situations 10 minutes earlier than anybody else.

Right midfield: Ian Callaghan. I've never seen anything in the side better than him since.

Strikers: Roger Hunt and Ian St John. Two of the greatest centre forward's the game has ever produced.

Subs: Pepe Reina. Top quality. I also can't look no further than Fernando Torres and Steven Gerrard. They could turn the game if we needed them.

Manager: Bill Shankly. There is no-one to match him.

Author: Steve Hunter
Tagged: Dream Team , Smith , Tommy Smith



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Ah Tommy. King Kenny the meastro in midfield.Nah If you are going to use Kenny in that way use a three pronged attack. Here's mine. Clememce. Neal. Thompson. Hansen. Nicol. Johnston. Souness. Gerrard. Barnes. Rush. Dalglish. Subs. Keegan. Whelan. Kennedy.R. Kennedy A. Molby. Hunt. But then again Liverpool have more legends than any other club in the world,you have to leave hundreds of players out.
elninotheking
1st Sep 2010 17:18
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