The scout behind Liverpool’s most successful teams

Image caption, Listen to the story of Liverpool's greatest scout, Geoff Twentyman on the Sporting Witness podcast.Geoff Twentyman was recruited by Liverpool manager Bill Shankly in 1967 to find up-and-coming football talent. Over a period spanning two decades, the revered scout helped build Liverpool’s most successful teams of the seventies and eighties.

Twentyman’s son, Geoff Jr, spoke to the Sporting Witness podcast about his late father, whom he described as “fundamental” to the “resurgence” Shankly created at Anfield.

Between 1967 and 1986, Twentyman was responsible for discovering a string of Liverpool legends, including Ian Rush, Phil Neal, Kevin Keegan and Alan Hansen. During that…