Brian Kettle

Brian Kettle
Personnel
birthday	April 22, 1956
place of birth	Prescot ,  England
position	Full-back (left)
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1973-1980	Liverpool FC	3 (0)
1978	→  Dallas Tornado  (loan)	19 (1)
1979	→  Houston Hurricane  (loan)
1980-1981	Wigan Athletic	14 (1)
1981-1982	Burscough FC
1982-1985	FC Runcorn	124 (8)
1985	AFC Barrow	5 (0)
	South Liverpool FC
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
	South Liverpool FC
	Southport FC
	Stalybridge Celtic
	Rhyl FC
1 Only league games are given.

Brian Kettle (born April 22, 1956 in Prescot ) is a retired English football player . The left full-back was employed by Liverpool FC for many years in the 1970s , but was mostly only used as a regular for the reserve teams. He moved to fourth division club Wigan Athletic in 1980 , before injury problems shortly afterwards ensured that he only played in the amateur field and trained later.

Athletic career

As a talented player on his home school team, Kettle was noticed by the Liverpool FC management team . Bill Shankly's assistant Tom Saunders ultimately ensured that Kettle joined the youth department of the "Reds" and that the courted man turned down a simultaneous offer from Burnley FC . After good training impressions, Liverpool FC equipped him with a contract and thus the way to a professional team seemed paved. However, this turned out to be too rocky in the following seven years, because he was never able to prevail over the club's internal competitors Alec Lindsay , Joey Jones and Alan Kennedy . Rather, he was a fixture in the reserve team, which in turn attracted attention with numerous championship titles in the Central League and successes in the Liverpool Senior Cup . This B-Eleven often led Kettle as the team captain.

On November 4, 1975, he made his debut as a substitute for the injured Joey Jones in the UEFA Cup against Real Sociedad San Sebastián . In the 6-0 home win he showed a good performance, was involved in the creation of a number of goals and was even named the “man of the game” by parts of the press. Although he made his debut in English top division football less than a month later against Arsenal (2: 2), his role was mostly that of “13. Manns “limited. In his role as security for a sudden loss of injury, he often traveled to Liverpool FC away games, although he was often not nominated for the game itself - at that time only one substitute was allowed to sit on the bench. In addition to two other (and last) league games in the 1976/77 season, he sat on the reserve bench on several occasions in the European Cup , as a larger number of possible substitutes was allowed in this competition.

After two loan periods in the US NASL at Dallas Tornado (1978) and Houston Hurricane (1979) Kettle moved in August 1980 for a transfer fee of 35,000 pounds to the fourth division club Wigan Athletic . The 23-year-old's hopes for a career in the senior team of a professional team were not fulfilled there either, because his involvement in Wigan ended in 1981 after a serious knee injury. Until the mid-1980s he played for various amateur clubs and at his last station, South Liverpool FC, he worked as a coach for the first time. Further positions in the sporting management were later the FC Southport , Stalybridge Celtic and in Wales the Rhyl FC .

Web links

• Profile at LFCHistory.net
• Statistical data from the Post War English & Scottish Football League A - Z Player's Database
• Profile at Playerhistory.com ( Memento from February 13, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Brian Kettle - the Big Interview" ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (liverpoolfc.com)  
2. ^ "Former Liverpool players who played with Barrow" (barrowafc.net)