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Goalkeeper Kenneth Campbell became Liverpool's first line of defence before the last seven league games of the 1911-12 season when the Reds were in deep relegation trouble.

Manager Tom Watson showed immense faith in such an inexperienced 20-year-old and Liverpool survived by winning three out of their last four with Campbell keeping three clean sheets.

Anfield's first-choice keeper for the last seven years, Sam Hardy, moved to Villa Park at the end of the season and Campbell missed only one First Division match during the 1912-13 campaign.

The man who replaced him on that occasion, the young Elisha Scott, would subsequently ensure that Ken's spell as Liverpool's first choice custodian was relatively brief, even though he was a Scottish international.

Ken only missed 4 league games in 1913-14 but before the half-way point of the following season, Scott had taken over between the posts.

When the First World War ended and League football resumed, Ken did find himself first-choice again but in April 1920 he played the last of his 142 games for Liverpool and returned briefly to his native Scotland.

In the summer of 1922 he moved back south, this time to New Brighton, and opened a sports outfitter in nearby Wallasey later that year, which was to become his base for the rest of his life.

On the playing front, he moved to Stoke in March 1923, playing in 2nd division before moving to newly promoted First Division side Leicester City in November 1925, who impressed and finished 17th, 3rd, 2nd and 8th.

Campbell spent the final years of his career at New Brighton from the summer of 1929 to 1931.

Other clubs:
Clyde Vale, Rutherglen Glencairn, Cambuslang Rovers, Partick Thistle, New Brighton (amateur), Stoke, Leicester, New Brighton (2)