‘There was great chemistry from the start. I’d jump up with a smile on my face, as I knew that if I won the jump and touched the ball, he’d find it for a finish’: How Kevin Keegan proved the perfect strike partner at Liverpool

Kevin Keegan and John Toshack celebrate another Liverpool goal.

Kevin Keegan became one of the best players in world football while playing for Liverpool in the 1970s, but he might not have had quite the same impact were it not for his strike partner.

For six seasons John Toshack and Kevin Keegan terrorised defences across the First Division and Europe, as the Liverpool forward duo blossomed into one of the best big man-little man striker partnerships the English game had seen at that point.