Players ‘wanted to do it for Reds fans’

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Steven Fletcher was just two years old as the carnage unfolded in South Yorkshire on that fateful spring afternoon almost a quarter of a century ago. It wouldn’t be long before the Scot became an Anfield regular, thanks to his late father, Kenny.

After stabbing home from close range after Craig Gardner put it on a plate, the forward’s celebration was an emotional one at the end of an emotional week for those with Liverpool close to their heart.