The potentially apocryphal story goes that after Liverpool’s legendary goalkeeper Tommy Lawrence apologised to his manager Bill Shankly after he had been nutmegged to concede a goal.
“Sorry, boss, I should have kept my legs together,” Lawrence said. Quick as a flash, Shankly shot back: “No, Tommy, your mother should have kept her legs together!”
Lawrence, a two-time league champion in the 1960s, is a key member in the pantheon of great Liverpool goalkeepers. However, the likes of Ray Clemence, Elisha Scott and Sam Hardy all patrolled the posts before the Premier League’s inception.
Nevertheless, there have been plenty of talented goalkeepers that managed to keep their legs closed for Liverpool in the last three decades. Here are some of the best.
Only 6% of Brad Friedel’s Premier League career was spent with Liverpool / Shaun Botterill/GettyImages
Chris Kirkland only kept four clean sheets in 25 Premier League appearances for Liverpool / Clive Brunskill/GettyImages
Loris Karius average one clean sheet for every 2.2 Premier League games he played / Robbie Jay Barratt – AMA/GettyImages
Sander Westerveld won five trophies in two full seasons with Liverpool / Ben Radford/GettyImages
David James made more than 200 Premier League appearances for Liverpool / Clive Brunskill/GettyImages
Bruce Grobbelaar was Liverpool’s first-choice goalkeeper during the trophy-laden era of the 1980s / Ben Radford/GettyImages
Simon Mignolet spent five seasons as Liverpool’s number one / Matthew Ashton – AMA/GettyImages
Jerzy Dudek was known as “The Big Pole in Our Goal” by Liverpool fans / Mark Thompson/GettyImages
No Liverpool goalkeeper has made more Premier League appearances for the club than Pepe Reina (285) / Etsuo Hara/GettyImages
Alisson has kept more than 100 clean sheets for Liverpool / Visionhaus/GettyImages
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