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Club groundsman bids farewell after four decades

A queue for tickets at the Anfield ticket office has been the start of many a great adventure for Liverpool supporters.

For Allan Webster, it was one that lasted almost 46 years and which only came to an end last week.

For the first 28 of those, he would be a groundsman at Anfield, looking after the sacred turf as Liverpool dominated both at home and in Europe.

So many of the finest moments in the club’s history have unfolded on a surface lovingly prepared by Allan and his colleagues.

He would go on to tend the pitches at the Reds’ training base at Melwood, where many a win was plotted, and the many surfaces and gardens at the club’s Academy in Kirkby.