RIP Tommy ,
You are right up there with the legends of our club.
Mr Shankly set this club on its way to the glory years I was lucky enough to live through , and maybe Mr Klopp is about to restore us to our rightful perch , the best in the land.
But Shanks couldn't have done it without lads like you sir, local lads who had lived through the dark and frustrating years of our attempts to regain top division status , so close so many times but then we did it.
And the glory years started.
Along with the other lads in red you played your part.
You are remembered as a hard man, but you were more than that, much more. A footballing brain , a winner , a footballer.
Highlights? Well so many.............. Wembley 74 , Scouse total football at its best........and of course Roma 77, that header. They should have put a blue plaque on your head at the spot that ball was so sweetly dispatched into the back of the BMG net...I bet you never even felt it hit you it was such a perfect header.
The 1965 FA cup winning team are the first reds I can cleary recall watching....that win set us on our way.
So thank you Tommy, thank you so much.
To your family , deepest condolences. Alzheimners is a horrible thing , I have just recently lost my own Dad to it.
Thanks for lending your husband, Dad, grandad to us for his playing career.
Alzheimers robs you of you memory, its a terrrible thing.
But Tommy Smith, footballer , scouser, Redman, will live long in the memory of Reds who saw him , and in the history of Liverpool Football Club for ever.