Gordon Wallace is a former Liverpool F.C.

Liverpool F.C.

Liverpool Football Club is an English Premier League football club based in Liverpool, Merseyside. Liverpool has won eighteen League titles, second most in English football, seven FA Cups and a record seven League Cups...

 player.

Wallace's main claims to fame were scoring twice in the very first BBC

BBC

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 "Match of the Day

Match of the Day

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" and being Liverpool's first ever European Champions' Cup goal scorer, with the first goal in an away tie against Reykjavik

Reykjavík

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, both occurring in August 1964.

Despite such a promising start his first team opportunities were limited by the consistency, fitness and excellent disciplinary records of Liverpool

Liverpool

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's twin strike force, Roger Hunt

Roger Hunt

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 and Ian St John, respectively England

England

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 and Scotland

Scotland

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 internationals. When Tony Hateley

Tony Hateley

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 joined Liverpool

Liverpool

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 in 1967 for the massive sum of £100,000 Wallace left on a free transfer, joining Crewe Alexandra for whom he was a consistent goalscorer in the lower divisions in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

  Liverpool

Winner

• 1964-65 Charity Shield
  FA Community Shield
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