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THE DATE: November 28, 1970
THE PLACE: Highbury
THE EVENT: Arsenal 2 Liverpool 0
THE STORY: The 1970- 71 season had at
least one thing in common with 2001-02 and 2000-01 - it
contained three superpower summits between those old
adversaries from Anfield and Highbury. When Liverpool
visited North London at the end of November, they found
Bertie Mee's team in the midst of a run of 14 games
without defeat. Despite some excellent, composed
defending in the first half, Liverpool were finally
beaten by goals from George Graham - still smarting after
being dropped and publicly rebuked for not scoring more
reguarly - and John Radford. Liverpool gained revenge
with a 2-0 win of their own at Anfield at the end of
January, but the glory ultimately belonged to Arsenal
when they won the "decider" in the FA Cup Final
at Wembley to complete the elusive Double.
1. RAY KENNEDY
(Arsenal striker): Just
19 at the time of this game. he had made only four
appearances in 1969-70. but an injury to Charlie George
at the start of the season presented an opportunity that
was seized eagerly. By the end of the campaign. he had
played in all but one of the team.s 64 games the opener
at Goodison Park. Strongly built and excellent at holding
possession. he scored 26 times. the most memorable being
the header that clinched the championship at White Hart
Lane on the Monday of Cup Final week. Bill Shankly must
have been impressed by what he saw on this afternoon
because his last act as Liverpool manager was to sign
Kennedy for œ180.000 in July 1974. He made 212
appearances for Arsenal- scoring 71 goals - but at
Anfield he was converted into a goalscoring midfield
player who was part of some of the club.s greatest
triumphs and won 17 England caps. Now aged 50. he has
suffered from Parkinson's disease for a number of years
and lives in his native Seaton Delaval, Northumberland.
2. FRANK McLINTOCK
(Arsenal centre
halt): Glaswegian who was signed by the previous manager.
Billy Wright, from Leicester City in October 1964 and at
first was an attacking midfield player. However, Don
Howe, the coach, decided during an injury crisis in
1969-70 that he might be usefully employed at centre half
and seldom has a hunch been proved so right. As well as
becoming a fine defender, he was an inspirational
captain. Victory in the Cup Final was his first in five
Wembley finals and he ended the season by being named
Footballer of the Year. He made 403 appearances before
joining Queens Park Rangers, where he almost won a second
championship medal. Most of his medals and many of the
shirts worn during his career were sold at auction last
month. Aged 62, he is a regular Sky Sports pundit.
3. JOHN TOSHACK
(Liverpool striker - see Cardiff
City): Just three weeks into his Anfield career after
a œ110,000 move from Cardiff City, he had endeared
himself to the Kop by scoring in an epic 3-2 win over
Everton the previous week. His career did not really
blossom until the next season and the arrival from
Scunthorpe United of a co-striker called Kevin Keegan. It
was a match made in heaven, as Liverpool won the
championship and Uefa Cup in 1973, the FA Cup in 1974,
the title and Uefa Cup again in 1975-76 and a final
championship in 1976-77. One of the few centre forwards
to have a volume of poetry published, he scored 95 goals
in 245 games for the club before beginning a long
managerial career by joining Swansea City in 1977. Now
52, he has spent many years in Spain, most of them with
his present employers, Real Sociedad.
4. TOMMY
SMITH (Liverpool defender):
The fact that he finished second to McLintock in the
football writers' poll at the end of that season is proof
that he was at the peak of his career. Born little more
than a mile from Anfield, he made his debut at the end of
1962-63 and established himself during 1964-65, starring
in the FA Cup Final win over Leeds United. Tales of his
toughness are legendary. 'There's a lot of very hard men
then there's Tommy Smith," one opponent said, while
Shankly quipped: "Tommy was never a boy - he was
born a man!" Captained the team to the title and
Uefa Cup in 1973 and, although he lost the leadership to
Emlyn Hughes later that year, stayed long enough to
finish with four championship medals and headed the third
goal in the 1977 European Cup final. He made 633
appearances and, aged 56, still lives on Merseyside,
where he is a columnist for the Liverpool Echo.
5. IAN ROSS
(Liverpool midfield
player):
Equally at home in the back four, his versatility was
prized by Shankly, even if a regular place proved
elusive. He was most memorably employed as a man-t(}-man
marker, subduing Franl Beckenbauer in a Fairs Cup victory
over Bayern Munich in 1971.
a game in which he also scored. He made 68 appearances
but was sold to Aston Villa for œ75,000 early in
1972. He led his new club to a promotion and League Cup
double in 1974-75 and was manager of Huddersfield Town in
the early Nineties. Aged 54, he lives in Aintree.
6. EDDIE KELLY
(Arsenal midfield pla~r):
Replaced by George Graham in this game, he struggled to
regain his place, although 23 appearances and four goals
represented a notable contribution to the championship
effort. His most telling impact on the Double story,
however, came at Wembley when he scored Arsenal's
equaliser soon after Steve Heighway had put Liverpool
ahead. He had already shown a talent for scoring
important goals against Anderlecht in the Fairs Cup final
the previous season. Although his form dipped after those
early high spots, he made 222 appearances before joining
QPR in 1976.
He is 51 next month and lives in Devon.
RICHARD WHITEHEAD THANKS: John Keith
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