£1,000 - £2,000
1968-69 Season Liverpool F.C. Number 4 Match Shirt, purportedly worn by Tommy Smith in a game versus Leeds United on April 28th 1969. The shirt was awarded to the Vendor at a Variety Club of G.B. Tribute Dinner at Queens Hotel Leeds, on Monday 19th May 1969. The Vendor was lucky enough to have won a competition organised jointly by the Liverpool Echo and the Yorkshire Evening Post, with his Yorkshire counterpart winning Leeds United’s number 4 jersey. Leeds Manager, Don Revie, had insisted a Liverpool supporter be present at the evening in recognition of the tremendous sporting gesture by the Kop at that game, who had applauded Leeds efforts at the end of that iconic game. The long sleeve shirt, in red with white ring neck and cuffs, hand stitched liver bird badge over LFC, bearing Umbro neck label, featuring orange triangle and washing instructions label to waist, white number 4 to back, is accompanied by photocopied documents of the event, letter of invitation and image of Don Revie presenting the shirts. Liverpool born Tommy nicknamed “The Anfield Iron” for his punishing tackles, made 639 senior appearances for the Reds between 1962 and 1978, scoring 48 goals. Later playing in America and finishing his career at Swansea City. He represented England under 23’s on 10 occasions, and surprisingly only once for the senior national team. Former Liverpool Manager, Bill Shankly, referring to Smith’s fearsome reputation, once said of him “Tommy Smith wasn’t born, he was quarried”. Smith passed away in 2019 aged 74.
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