Brian Kettle

Brian Kettle ( born April 22, 1956 in Prescot ) is a former English footballer. The left-back was in 1970 for many years employed at Liverpool, arrived there but mostly just as a regular player in the reserve team for use. In 1980 he joined the fourth division Wigan Athletic, before shortly after injury problems made ​​sure that he only played in the amateur and later coached.

Sports career

A talented player of his native school team Kettle fell on the club's management of Liverpool FC. Bill Shankly's assistant Tom Saunders made ​​ultimately ensure that Kettle youth department of the " Reds " and joined the wooed beat out a simultaneous offer of Burnley FC. After a good workout impressions of Liverpool endowed him with a contract and thus seemed to be a way up to the professional team paved. However, this turned out in the next seven years as is too rocky, because the simplifying internal competitors Alec Lindsay, Joey Jones and Alan Kennedy he could never prevail permanently located. Rather, he was a fixture in the reserve team, which in turn, however, with numerous championship titles in the Central League and success in the Liverpool Senior Cup drew attention to himself. This B-team led Kettle often as team captain.

On November 4, 1975, he debuted as a representation of the injured Joey Jones in the UEFA Cup against Real Sociedad. In a 6-0 home win, he showed a good performance, was involved in the emergence of a number of gates and was honored by parts of the media landscape even as " Man of the Match ". Although he was just a month later against Arsenal (2-2 ) also made ​​his debut in the English league football, but his role was mostly to the " 13 Mann's " limited. In its function as security for a sudden breach failure, he often traveled to away matches of FC Liverpool, although he was often not nominated for the game itself - at that time was allowed to sit on the substitutes ' bench just a substitute. In addition to two further (and final ) League games in the 1976/77 season he was on several occasions in the European Champions Cup on the bench, since a larger number of possible substitutes were allowed in this competition.

After two Leihperioden in the U.S. NASL at Dallas Tornado (1978) and Houston Hurricane (1979 ) Kettle changed in August 1980 for a transfer fee of £ 35,000 for fourth division Wigan Athletic. However, the hopes of the 23 -year-olds on a career in the A- team of a professional team did not meet there, too, because after a serious knee injury ended his involvement in 1981 in Wigan. Until the mid- 1980s, he was still playing at various Amateuerklubs and at his last station FC South Liverpool, he worked first as a coach. Other stations in the athletic line were later FC Southport, Stalybridge Celtic and Wales the Rhyl FC.