Fondly and rightly remembered as one of the greatest Liverpool players of all time, William Liddell was born in Dunfermline, Fife on the 10th of January 1922. He arrived at Anfield from a Scottish junior club and after having served with the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.

As League football resumed after the war, Billy won a League championship medal in his first 'full' season with the club, although he had represented Liverpool in Football League (North) matches during the war as well as making two appearances in the 1946 F.A. cup competition, when the first of his 229 Liverpool goals came at Sealand Road, Chester. 

Billy's attendance record was remarkable. He averaged THIRTY-EIGHT League games a season over a 12-year period from 1946 until 1958 and his position at outside-left was rarely threatened during that time, although he was just as comfortable and effective when playing at centre-forward. In fact, so synonymous did he become for the Liverpool cause that the club was often nicknamed "Liddellpool" when the Scottish winger was in his prime.

Billy represented his club in the 1950 F.A. cup final against Arsenal and either side of that first-ever Wembley visit for the club was given the supreme honour of being selected twice to play for Great Britain against the Rest of the World, an accolade he simply accepted with his usual great modesty and humility. 

He was also capped 28 times by his native Scotland. But even his tremendous skill and goals could not stop the club's slide into the Second Division 4 years after that cup final appearance. Billy remained loyal and stayed at Anfield when a lesser man might have been tempted to move on after relegation and he certainly enjoyed playing against less well-organised defences as he banged in over 100 goals in the first five Second Divisions after the club had been demoted. 

By the start of the 1959-60 season Liddell was 37 years old and clearly approaching the end of a wonderful Liverpool career. He made 17 appearances that season and just one the following year, the last of his 494 League games for the club coming in a disappointing home defeat by Southampton on the last day of August, 1960.

It was perhaps fitting that for the final dozen or so games of his time with Liverpool, one great Scot should be managed by another, a man who would take the club back into the top division and on to the sort of success which Billy's loyalty and devotion to the Liverpool cause had certainly deserved.

Irrespective of the fact that the club only won one major trophy during his long association at Anfield, Billy Liddell will forever be remembered as one of the greatest players ever to represent Liverpool Football Club during the first 100 years of its existence.