RIP Tony Hately

[Frogfish]

He was at Liverpool when I was a youngster and was loved and imitated in the street, scoring goals between those two jumpers thrown on the ground.

Liverpool have announced that former striker Tony Hateley has passed away at the age of 72. Hateley, whose son Mark won 32 international caps for England, was lured to Anfield by legendary Reds manager Bill Shankly in 1967. Shankly signed Hateley from Chelsea for a club-record fee of £96,000, and he spent just over a year with Liverpool, scoring 28 goals in 56 appearances.

A statement on the Liverpool website read: "Liverpool Football Club was today saddened to learn of the passing of former striker Tony Hateley, aged 72. "The thoughts of everyone at Liverpool Football Club go out to his family and friends at this sad time."

Hateley also played for Aston Villa, Coventry, Birmingham and Notts County during his career, which ended in 1974. Grandson Tom, the former Motherwell and Tranmere player, wrote on Twitter: "Very sad to hear my dadda Tony passed away today." Former England striker Gary Lineker added: "Sorry to hear of the death of Tony Hateley. Played with his son, Mark for England, met Tony. A wonderful football family."

YNWA Tony. Condolences to his family.

 

[jimmy]

RIP

 

[Spionkop69]

RIP

 

[gkmacca]

He was interviewed a while ago and choked up saying how much he loved the club. RIP.

 

[Oncy]

RIP.

 

[Judge Jules]

A workhorse rather than a thoroughbred as a player (his son was by some distance the better of the two). Shanks actually had a better record with less expensive signings (e.g.Keegan for £35,000 from Scunny) than he did with the bigger ones. However, Tony Hateley clearly loved his time here and always gave everything.

Tony Hateley RIP.

 

[jimmy]

Why did he only spend such a short time at the club? He seemed to have a decent scoring recored.

 

[Judge Jules]

From what I can remember, the circs.were a little like those preceding the Andy Carroll signing. The team was starting to need a degree of change for whatever reason, and a new striker came in for a big fee. After a while some pundits began to say that having Hateley up top was changing the style of the team for the worse, in that everything was going through him and, with all due respect to the fella, he was more of a quality workhorse than an out-and-out thoroughbred. I think they were right TBH and I reckon Shanks eventually reached the same conclusion.

 

[doctor_mac]

He was interviewed a while ago and choked up saying how much he loved the club. RIP.

Yeah, I saw that too. RIP

 

[Dreambeliever]

RIP YNWA

 

[mark1975]

I didn't realise he was that old, RIP.

 

[Portly]

The previous season, Thompson and Callaghan had been firing lovely crosses into the goalmouth, just begging to be headed in by a big number 9. In Hateley's first season they changed to playing everything on the deck! 😀

 

[Leo]

RIP

 

[gkmacca]

His interview is repeated on LFCTV tonight at 11pm.

 

[refugee]

RIP

 

[Gary25]

R.I.P.