The name Tom Watson might not ring a bell with most of our fans but he was a very key figure for the club in the pre-war era as the first manager to bring the First Division championship back in 1901.
It was also his side that won the title in 1906, prompting the Anfield directors to build the Kop in recognition of the team's achievement and he deserves a special place in LFC folklore for that alone in my opinion.
Although we lost the 1914 FA Cup final to Burnley, he was the first manager to take us to one which shouldn't be forgotten.
Before he came to Merseyside, he lifted the title three times in eight seasons with Sunderland so he was definitely a born winner.
Such was his influence that, like Shanks, former players of his turned out in force at his funeral and some acted as pallbearers including Alex Raisbeck and Ted Doig, another interesting character from those early years at Anfield.
Not only was he the club's oldest debutant at 37 years old but he was also the oldest first-team player at 41 when he turned out against Newcastle United in April 1908.
The reason why I gave you this brief history lesson is because I'm going to visit the graves of these two gents at Anfield Cemetery later this week as part of a project I'm involved with. Ted's headstone is blank whilst Tom's burial plot isn't even marked.
Don't know about you but I think it's a crying shame that these two individuals' final resting places have been allowed to fall into decline and in Tom's case, be erased from sight.
Liverpool helped rededicate the grave of the Reverend Ben Swift Chambers - one of the Founding Fathers of Merseyside football - in West Yorkshire and that of Elisha Scott in Belfast but there has been no willingness from the club, as far as I know, to do the same for Tom Watson or Ted Doig - whose grandson is incidentally a statistician for LFC - who lay just a few hundred yards from Anfield itself.
Talking to a few local historians and the like about this so that we can try and have fitting tributes for these two fine gentlemen that stands alongside the grand memorials of some of the club's former chairmen who also reside in Anfield Cemetery.
For now folks, please keep this on here as it's only early days