Anfield had been blessed with some top-class attacking full-backs over the years.
Long before Trent Alexander-Arnold and Andy Robertson helped redefine the role under Jurgen Klopp, Liverpool have enjoyed a succession of skilled operators who have ploughed successful furrows up and down the flanks from the likes of Chris Lawler and Gerry Byrne under Bill Shankly to Phil Neal and Alan Kennedy who both scored European Cup winning goals for the Reds.
Those continent-conquering achievements make it difficult to overlook the latter pair when it comes to the age-old question of picking an all-time LFC XI but there is one candidate whose meteoric rise in the 1990s threatened to make him a serious candidate for such an accolade until injuries cut his career devastatingly short and forced him to retire from the game just as he should have been reaching his peak.
