Albert Stubbins

Later life quote="One of Liverpool's finest players of the immediate post-World War II period, Stubbins' fame also earned him a place on the front cover of the Beatles' ‘Sergeant Pepper’ album – where he was the only footballer to feature." — —FourFourTwo magazine, ranking Stubbins no. 45 in their greatest Liverpool players list and his fame which led to an appearance on the cover of a Beatles album. In selecting two players from each decade to enter the Liverpool F.C. Hall of Fame, Stubbins was one of two players chosen from the 1940s (the other being Billy Liddell). He also has a Liverpool F.C. fan club named in his honour, "The Albert Stubbins Crazy Crew". He also featured as a minor character in Stephen Baxter's 1995 time-travelling novel The Time Ships. He died in 2002, aged 83, after a short illness.

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