Under the spotlight - 10 matches that shaped the history of Liverpool Football Club
Jonathan Wilson's position as the pre-eminent thinking man's football writer is likely only to be reinforced by his latest offering, which applies the formula he employed so effectively in The Anatomy of England for the first time to the history of a club. The Anatomy of Liverpool: A History in Ten Matches , which he has written in collaboration with another football writer, Guardian on-line's Liverpool-supporting Scott Murray, promises to be the first in a line of innovative club histories. As with The Anatomy of England , this examination of Liverpool's evolution is constructed around 10 games the authors considered to have had particular significance, even if they are not always the most obvious or famous games. The England book, for example, examined the 1966 World Cup through the prism of the quarter-final against Argentina, rather than the final. "When I sat down with Scott over a meal to discuss which games we would include, we looked for a spread