{"id":6820,"date":"2026-06-03T18:36:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T18:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/?p=6820"},"modified":"2026-06-03T18:36:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T18:36:59","slug":"liverpools-greatest-no-92-dick-forshaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/?p=6820","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool&#8217;s Greatest &#8211; No.92: Dick Forshaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Two hat-tricks against Manchester United and one versus Everton would have been enough to earn anyone a place on this list.<\/p>\n<p>But 124 goals overall and being a leading figure in a squad of back-to-back title winners ensured Dick Forshaw carved out an even stronger legacy in Liverpool FC history.<\/p>\n<p>The Widnes-born forward joined the club a year after the First World War ended and would spend much of the next eight seasons putting the ball in the net for the Reds.<\/p>\n<p>After two campaigns of relatively modest output, Forshaw played in every league fixture and delivered 17 goals as Liverpool finished top of the table by six points in 1921-22.<\/p>\n<p>He was once again ever-present when a team who became known as \u2018The Untouchables\u2019 successfully defended their championship in 1922-23, increasing his goal tally to 19.<\/p>\n<p>His most prolific season while at Anfield was actually his seventh, with 29 across all competitions in 1925-26 including 27 in the top flight \u2013 a third of the side\u2019s entire total.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two hat-tricks against Manchester United and one versus Everton would have been enough to earn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-liverpool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}