The best stories are often the ones which provide an unlikely hero.
Liverpool’s history is littered with them, from the likes of a hobbling Geoff Strong - injured and only shoved up front for nuisance value because substitutes didn’t yet exist - heading the goal against Celtic which took the Reds to their first European final back in 1966, to Vladimir Smicer and later Divock Origi doing similar in Champions League finals, certain individuals have grasped moments which suddenly presented themselves to write their names into folklore.
Few if any have done it as consistently however than an unheralded full-back who arrived at Anfield with little fanfare but became a key element in one of the Reds’ most dominant eras and possessed the happy knack of popping up with vital goals in the biggest of games.
