We upset the applecart.. and left Reds with the pip

It’s now over three-and-ahalf years since Liverpool last lost at home in the Premier League.

Former Wales midfielder Edwards, now playing for Shrewsbury Town, still has a memento from the day when he was in a Wolves side that upset the applecart in front of the Kop.

It was the FA Cup fourth round in January 2017 and visitors Wolves were still a Championship side.

Edwards understood exactly what it meant to triumph on such hallowed footballing turf then – and what it would still mean for his old club now.

He said: “Wolves have changed so much since I last played for them in 2017/18.

“I can’t see anything stopping that upwards trajectory, either. It’s wonderful.

“I’m so pleased but it does seem such a long time ago. We went up to Anfield as a solid, workmanlike side with a couple of aces up our sleeve, but we were battling away in the second tier.

“On a personal level, after I played in the Euros with Wales in 2016, I had made a conscious effort to savour every moment of my career.

“You’re going into these big stadiums and it’s all over in one second and you completely forget about it. I wanted it to be

KOP A LOAD OF THAT! Edwards (right) hails Stearman after his goal set up Wolves’ Anfield Cup upset so much more ‘in the moment’. That Liverpool game was one of those. I just wanted to drink it all in, particularly as I was skipper that day.

“We took 8-9,000 fans up there. They were packed in the Anfield Road end.

“I remember standing with the mascot, whose name was Fletcher by the way, in the tunnel waiting to go out, and all you could hear was the

Wolves fans. They were singing a song about me.

“It was surreal – 55,000 there and all I could hear was a song with my name in being sung by the visiting fans.

“A few minutes later, I gathered the lads together in the huddle. A young lad called Harry Burgoyne was in goal for us. It was one of his first games and I just remember saying to them, ‘ Take this all in when the crowd are singing You’ll Never Walk Alone. These things don’t happen every day. Listen to it. Make sure you enjoy it and savour it. This could be one of the best days of your career – winning at Anfield in front of a full house’.

“From there, we went on and did exactly that.”

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp had made changes that day. The 2-1 defeat was still the low point of his time in charge. He had yet to mount a full title tilt and an FA Cup exit at home to a Championship club was an undoubted blow.

Edwards said: “We thought we might be able to ruffle a few feathers.

“We were well organised. But we also had Helder Costa who was sensational that season, greased-lightning on the break.

“We knew if we could stay in the game we’d have a chance. It didn’t work like that. With less than a minute gone, I nicked the ball off Lucas and he fouled me. From the free-kick Richard Stearman put us in front.

“Then Andi Weimann scored an unbelievable goal on the counter-attack.

“Him and Helder just took off. I tried to keep up but gave up on the halfway line.

“We’d silenced Anfield. And they were trying to force it. They did get a goal back but we hung on.

“I was proved right, too – I had said in the huddle that some of the players would talk about it for years afterwards!”

He has a memento to go with those memories.

Edwards said: “I’m not one for memorabilia. I’ve got a few bits – I kept the shirt from Wales’ opener at Euro 2016 – but I have the captain’s armband from that Liverpool game.

“I don’t know why I’ve kept it. I suppose when I’m 78 and my grandkids don’t believe I used to be a footballer I can show them and say, ‘ This is from when we won at Anfield’.”