REVEALED: The LFC winger Bill Shankly thought was as good as George Best

In 1963, Liverpool signed two-footed wing-wizard winger Peter Thompson, a player who Bill Shankly believed was on the same level as the likes of Tom Finney and George Best. Depsite Thompson giving Liverpool 8 wonderful years of service, the relationship him and Shankly was often quite complicated...


Thompson admits their relationship didn't have the best of starts when he signed for Liverpool on 14th August 1963: "I had a friend whose father was a coach at Preston and he told me to ask for signing-on fee.

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