Danish 'keeper, who sat on Liverpool's bench in over 50 matches, but never made an appearance. He had an extreme case of bad luck in a Merseyside derby at Anfield on 27 September 1999. Sander Westerveld was sent off, but as the Reds had used all three substitutes Nielsen could not go on. His shirt did make it onto the pitch however, for stand-in keeper Steve Staunton. Nielsen returned to Denmark in 2002 before retiring in 2008 to take a political science degree. In April 2019 was a goalkeeping coach at Nordvest.
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It was left back Beglin who provided the killer through ball to Dalglish, and for the Republic of Ireland international winning the league title was one of the proudest moments of a career which was cruelly cut short through injury:
"We had been on a good run and we were confident we could do it. When we lost the derby 2-0 to Everton at Anfield it looked as if it would be tough for us to come back, but we then went on this fantastic run. They lost at Oxford on the same night we won at Leicester and so we then knew what we had to do at Chelsea.
One goal was enough and it just had to be Kenny who got it. It wasn't often I went up for a corner as it was always my duty to stay back, but for some reason even though our corner was cleared I had stayed up there. Chelsea just couldn't clear the ball and I remember Ronnie heading the ball towards me and I had my back to goal. All I wanted to do was help the ball on its way and I already knew Kenny was behind me. The rest is history as the top man controlled the ball on his chest and stuck it into the corner of the net.
For Kenny in his first season to win what turned out to be the double was just fantastic. To score the goal that won us the league was incredible. What a lot of people forget is Kenny brought himself back into the side after we had lost that game to Everton. With Kenny in the side his presence alone shook everybody up and there was more urgency and an edge to the team again. When he was in the team he just demanded higher standards and everything had to be sharp and precise."
Liverpool’s current Premier League campaign has been one of contrast, strong attacking output on one hand, and periods of inconsistency on the other. A statistical breakdown of their season reveals a team still competing at a high level, but one that has not fully matched the dominance of their strongest recent campaigns.
There's a reason Liverpool supporters have developed a habit of holding their breath when big news breaks. The club operates at extremes. Decisions that look questionable on announcement day end up defining trophy-winning eras, while others that seemed perfectly sensible at the time dragged the club backwards for the better part of three or four years.
Liverpool has already said goodbye to some significant players, but some of them have a different emotional coloring. They do not simply eliminate good in the team. They change the figure of a team in their heads. Andy Robertson is one of them. He is more than a left-back, as he has been doing so for almost ten years. He has been one of the most articulate translations of the Liverpool character: tough, violent, sentimental and never backward.
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