CHAMPIONS LEAGUE FINAL
McDermott urges Reds to draw on the spirit of 1981
Madrid — When Liverpool last beat Real Madrid to win the European Cup, Terry McDermott was the tournament’s top scorer and neither Cristiano Ronaldo nor Mohamed Salah were even born yet. The 1981 final at the Parc des Princes in Paris, decided by Alan Kennedy’s late goal, earned Liverpool a third European crown in five seasons, at around the midway point of the club’s most dominant era. McDermott played in all three finals. He scored the winner in the first, against Borussia Monchengladbach in 1977, and finished the last as the competition’s joint-highest scorer, on six with teammate Graeme Souness and Karl-Heinz Rummenigge of Bayern Munich. On Tuesday, the former box-to-box midfielder, who grew up a stone’s throw away from Liverpool’s Anfield stadium, put his three trophies up for sale at a London auction. They were expected to fetch about £15,000 each. "My three kids are doing fine but they can put it into a house or pay off the mortgage," McDermott said. The memories, however, re...
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