Liverpool Legend Tommy Smith Dies ....

Tommy Smith in action at White Hart Lane in the late 60’s“Oh Yes! And ... what a delighted scorer! It’s Tommy Smith. Look at it Again. Oh, what an end to a career. Tommy Smith sends the Liverpool crowd into total delight.”

Those were the astonished and incredulously spoken words of an emotional BBC commentator, Barry Davies, bringing us all the action from Rome’s Olympic Stadium in May 1977. The occasion was the European Cup Final and Tommy Smith’s 64th minute goal had put Liverpool back in the driving seat, 2-1 up on German champions, Borussia Mounchengladbach.

An unlikely scorer. That header against Borussia Mounchengladbach.It wasn’t that Tommy Smith, who died today aged 74, was a stranger…