Club leads tributes to former England winger
TOWN fans are looking for positive action on the pitch and in the transfer window with their team languishing at the bottom of the Premier League.
The heartbreaking 1-0 defeat to Fulham was a club record-equalling seventh defeat on the trot for David Wagner’s side.
It capped a miserable December and leaves them needing a miraculous improvement in form to stand a chance of avoiding the drop.
As Burnley provide the opposition to kick-off 2019 at the John Smith’s Stadium tomorrow night, the fans have their say on Town events and prospects...
No doubt a bad result and we will need a special effort to stay up, but some on social media need to get real.
All we hear is we need quality up front etc, but who do they think is going to come?
The calls for Wagner to go are pathetic. What short memories some fans have. EX-LIVERPOOL and England winger Peter Thompson has died at the age of 76, the Premier League club have announced.
Signed by Bill Shankly from Preston in 1963, Thompson went on to become a mainstay on the left flank for the Reds as he racked up more than 400 appearances and two First Division titles during his decade-long stay at Anfield.
Liverpool wrote on their official Twitter feed: “We’re deeply saddened by the passing of former winger Peter Thompson. RIP Peter.”
Carlisle-born Thompson, who was capped 16 times by England between 1964 and 1970 but was not part of Sir Alf Ramsey’s 1966 World Cup winning squad, made his Preston debut aged 17 in August 1960.
He went on to score 20 goals in
121 appearances before his switch to Liverpool, where he was an ever- present in his first campaign as he helped his new side to the league title in 1963-64.
Thompson was central to Liverpool’s first-ever FA Cup win the following season, scoring the opener in a 2-0 semi-final success over Chelsea before playing every minute of the extra-time victory over Leeds in the Wembley showpiece.
Thompson was absent for only two games as Liverpool reclaimed the league crown in 1965-66 while, in total, he scored 54 goals in 416 matches for the Merseyside club.
Shankly once remarked about Thompson in the latter’s testimonial brochure: “If Peter Thompson would not have taken up football he could have competed in the Olympic games. That’s how good an athlete he was. He could run forever, but more importantly in football, he could run with the ball.”