The fair city of Cardiff has inadvertently played an occasionally significant role in some key moments of Liverpool history.
The football club bearing the city’s name were Bill Shankly’s first opponents as Reds manager when the iconic Scot began his transformative 15-year spell in charge in December 1959, stunning Anfield with a 4-0 victory.
Over forty years later, the Welsh capital became Liverpudlians’ home from home for much of the first decade of the new millennium as, with Wembley Stadium being rebuilt, English football’s domestic cup finals were moved to the Millennium Stadium, Liverpool winning the first and last showpiece occasions held there as well providing their supporters with a host of treasured memories in between.
