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Billy Liddell

1922 - 2001

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William Beveridge Liddell (10 January 1922 – 3 July 2001) was a Scottish footballer who played his entire professional career with Liverpool. He signed with the club as a teenager in 1938 and retired in 1961, having scored 228 goals in 534 appearances (placing Liddell fifth and 12th in the respective club rankings as of December 2024). He was Liverpool's leading goalscorer in the league in eight out of nine seasons from 1949–50 to 1957–58, and surpassed Elisha Scott's club record for most league appearances in 1957. With Liverpool, Liddell won a league championship in 1947 and featured in the club's 1950 FA Cup Final defeat by Arsenal. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Billy Liddell is the 6,187th most popular soccer player (down from 4,984th in 2019), the 5,667th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,933rd in 2019) and the 356th most popular British Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Billy Liddell ranks 6,187 out of 21,273. Before her are Manuel Sarabia, Pascal Groß, Adrian Knup, Francisco Trincão, Javier González, and Tetsuya Abe. After her are Miyuki Izumi, Imre Garaba, Dani Osvaldo, Nicky Butt, Ioan Andone, and Kazuma Irifune.

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Among people born in 1922, Billy Liddell ranks 430. Before her are Joan Copeland, Redd Foxx, Helen Gurley Brown, Herbert MacKay-Fraser, Derek J. de Solla Price, and John B. Anderson. After her are Dick King-Smith, Johnny Thomson, Herb McKenley, Fortune Gordien, G. N. Ramachandran, and Herbert Goldstein. Among people deceased in 2001, Billy Liddell ranks 326. Before her are Bruce Halford, Julie Bishop, Horace Gwynne, Bob Tinning, Cássia Eller, and Billy Higgins. After her are Jay Chamberlain, G. N. Ramachandran, A. F. M. Ahsanuddin Chowdhury, Tony Ashton, Govan Mbeki, and Les Brown.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Billy Liddell ranks 5,669 out of 8,785. Before her are Kevin Warwick (1954), Jeffrey Hammond (1946), George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville (1716), Dee Palmer (1937), James Abbott (1807), and Andrew Flintoff (1977). After her are Catherine Tate (1968), Rod Temperton (1949), Dick King-Smith (1922), Nicky Butt (1975), Laura Muntz Lyall (1860), and Ray Noble (1903).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among soccer players born in United Kingdom, Billy Liddell ranks 356. Before her are Viv Anderson (1956), Alex McLeish (1959), Andy Carroll (1989), Tammy Abraham (1997), Ron Staniforth (1924), and Alan Kelly Jr. (1968). After her are Nicky Butt (1975), Andy Auld (1900), Alex Scott (1984), Jimmy Murphy (1910), Danny Welbeck (1990), and Jackie Blanchflower (1933).

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