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The Anatomy of Liverpool: A History in Ten Matches
Jonathan Wilson, Jonathan Wilson Ltd, Scott Murray
Prose: non-fiction, Football (Soccer, Association football)
Award-winning football writer Jonathan Wilson, author of Inverting the Pyramid, and Scott Murray analyse ten key games that have shaped Liverpool Football Club.
Jonathan Wilson and Scott Murray provide a forensic analysis of ten key Liverpool games that have shaped the club's fortunes over the last century: from the long-lost triumphs of Tom Watson (a 19th-century Bill Shankly) to 1970s European triumphs over the likes of Borussia Monchengladbach and the mind-blowing 2005 comeback against AC Milan.
Aston Villa v. Liverpool
April 1899
Wolves v. Liverpool
May 1947
Liverpool v. Leeds
FA Cup final, May 1965
Liverpool v. Crvena Zvezda
November 1973
Liverpool v. Borussia Monchengladbach
European Cup final, May 1977
Liverpool v. Roma
European Cup final, May 1984
Liverpool v. Nottingham Forest
April 1988
Everton v. Liverpool
February 1991
Roma v. Liverpool
February 2001
AC Milan v. Liverpool
Champions League final, May 2005
Jonathan Wilson
Jonathan Wilson is a columnist for the Guardian and the founder and editor of The Blizzard. Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics was Football Book of the Year in 2009 and was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award. Seven of his other books have been shortlisted for football book of the year and he has also won the Premio Antonio Ghirelli in Italy. Angels with Dirty Faces did the double of football book and history book of the year at the Polish Sports Book Awards in 2018. He is a three-time recipient of the FSA Football Writer of the Year award and in 2023 was granted an honorary doctorate by the University of Sunderland. He writes for the Guardian and in 2011 founded The Blizzard, which he still edits.
Follow him on Twitter: @jonawils
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