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Top-flight footballer dead - as tributes paid to Liverpool and Nottingham Forest legend


Former Liverpool midfielder Peter Cormack has died aged 78 and Liverpool have paid tribute to the former player, who won the UEFA Cup and FA Cup during his stint at the club

Liverpool legend Peter Cormack, who Bill Shankly named as the 'final piece in the jigsaw', has sadly passed away aged 78 - with tributes flooding in for the football star. After joining from Nottingham Forest in 1972, Cormack helped Liverpool win the First Division title and UEFA Cup double in his first season with the club. "That July morning in 1972 I sat nervously, twitching like a wet behind the ears teenager about to set out on his football career, nothing like the battle hardened pro with 10 years’ first team experience and several Scotland caps that I was."

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