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2nd Division

Anfield | 09 September 1959 at19:15UK local time

Liverpool 2 - 0 Scunthorpe United

Goals (Assists in brackets)

Notes

  • - Roger Hunt makes his LFC debut
  • - Roger Hunt scores his first LFC goal
  • - Roger Hunt fondly remembers his first Liverpool game as he told LFC.tv in February 2009: "Billy Liddell was the star of that team. He had been at Liverpool such a long time and, as you probably know, they used to call them Liddell-pool. Anyway, he was getting towards the end of his career and got injured. Hence, I got the call. I remember that the game was a lot quicker that what I was used to. I was playing more of centre forward role and I was more of an inside forward as we called it back then. We were one-nil up when we got a free-kick around the hour mark. Jimmy Melia spotted me and played a short pass into my stride. I looked up and hit it instinctively. I knew it was in as soon as I struck it and I can't describe how good it felt to see it smash in off the crossbar. It wasn't in front of the Kop, but it made me feel so much more confident for the rest of the game. It was a big moment for me, but there weren't many celebrations afterwards. I had a cup of tea and luckily enough my father had been at the game so I managed to get a lift back home with him. The ride home capped a great day."

Other details

Manager: Phil Taylor
Opposition manager: Frank Soo
Referee: Smith RE
Attendance: 31,713
Half-time score: 1 - 0
Game number: 2367
League game number: 2158
Played towards Kop: First half
Liverpool league position: 11th
Scunthorpe United league position: 19th
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