I watched every game Emlyn Hughes played for Blackpool, he was only 19 when Blackpool sold him to Liverpool in Feb 1967 for what was then a British record fee of £65,000 for a teenager. Emlyn quickly built up a reputation at Blackpool as a hard enthusiastic tackler with an incredible will to win who had zero respect for reputations. Bill Shankly watched Hughes play in lots of Blackpool games as did the Liverpool captain Ron Yeats. Shankly was determined to get his man and even drove Emlyn back to Liverpool himself. The story goes that on the way back to Liverpool, a policeman stopped Bill Shankly for speeding, Shanks wound down his window and said to the policeman “ do you know who I have got in the back of this car? “, the policeman said No, Shanks said “ this is a future Captain of England “, the policeman peered into the back of Shank’s car and said he didn’t recognise him, Shanks said “ you will do very soon “ and a confused policeman then waved Shanks on his way.