Former Liverpool winger Brian Hall dies at age of 68
Friday 17 July 2015 11:32, UK
Former Liverpool winger Brian Hall has died at the age of 68.
Hall, who played 224 times for Liverpool between 1969 and 1976, had been battling leukaemia for a number of years.
He was part of the great Liverpool side of the early seventies, winning two League Championship medals, two UEFA Cup medals and an FA Cup winners' medal before finishing his career with spells at Plymouth and Burnley.
His most famous goal for was also his first for the club - he scored the winner in the 1971 FA Cup semi-final against Everton at Old Trafford.
Liverpool lost the final, against Arsenal - but Hall returned to Wembley three years later to play a starring role as the Reds won the FA Cup with a 3-0 win over Newcastle.
Hall, a university graduate, was nicknamed 'Little Bamber' - after University Challenge host Bamber Gascoigne - with team-mate Steve Heighway, also a graduate, known as 'Big Bamber'.
He returned to Liverpool in 1991 to take charge of the club's public relations department before retiring in 2011 due to health reasons.
Hall's former team-mate Ray Clemence and ex-Reds striker John Aldridge took to Twitter to express their condolences.
Clemence wrote: "So sad to hear of Brian Hall, good player, great man. Thoughts are with Mary and the family.”
Aldridge added: "Very sad news for all LFC fans. Brian Hall passed away today. What a gentleman a lovely man. Our thoughts are with his family.”
