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Hateley's lofty heights - if only for a season
Aug 18 2005
By Sean Joseph, Daily Post
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PETER CROUCH misses out on his Anfield league debut against Sunderland through suspension and injury on Saturday.
But for another lofty Liverpool striker a home match against Sunderland early in the season was the end of his Anfield career.
Tony Hateley, like Crouch, was talked about more for his height and aerial ability than anything else. Much was made of his arrival at Bill Shankly's Liverpool in June 1967 for a then club record fee of £96,000 from Chelsea.
I was a bit too young to recall first hand the short, but at times profitable career of Hateley, but he is part of Anfield folklore which had him as the ideal 'big man' up front, but not quite so good on the deck.
That may have been harsh on the Derby-born forward and his first season in red vindicated his huge fee.
A hat-trick in a 6-0 win over Newcastle at Anfield at the end of August was just part of a profitable partner-ship he forged with 'Sir' Roger Hunt.
Between them they scored 61 goals that season, with Hateley netting 16 in the League, three in the Fairs Cup and eight in seven FA Cup games.
Four in that run against Walsall and another Anfield hat-trick in a 6-1 felling of Nottingham Forest promised much of his double act with Hunt.
They looked like they'd become the Dynamic Duo long before Keegan and Toshack had even been spotted in the lower reaches of the league.
Sadly in his second season injury, poor form and the tendency when he was on the pitch for Liverpool to use the long-ball game, so hated by Shankly, ended his Anfield buttocation.
He played just four games in the 1968-69 season and was sold to Coventry just a month into the campaign for £80,000.
His parting gift was the final goal in a 4-1 victory over Sunderland on August 24.
Tommy Smith, Chris Lawler and Ian Callaghan had put Liverpool on the way to victory. Hateley sealed it with header, superbly flicking home Peter Thompson's cross.
It seemed he was up and running for another goal-laden campaign, but that was his final goal in Red.
