TO score the winner in a European Cup Final is every footballers’ dream. To do it twice and from a left back berth too is unbelievable.

But that’s on Alan Kennedy’s CV after the Liverpool legend achieved greatness with his 1981 goal against Real Madrid and three years later against Roma in their own Stadio Olimpico.

Kennedy described his winning penalty in the shoot-out victory in Rome as the best moment in his career, claiming: “Without doubt it was better than in 1981 because there was more pressure.”

And Kennedy, who finished his career under Brian Flynn’s charge at Wrexham, is one of many players who have turned out in the famous red shirts of both clubs over the years - including three more European Cup winners and Liverpool legends, Ian Rush, Jimmy Case and Joey Jones.

Welsh legend Jones was in the team in 1977 and a copy of the famous ‘Joey ate the frogs legs, made the Swiss roll and now he’s munchin gladbachs’ banner is hung up on one of the stands at Anfield.

“I had the original banner in my garage for 20 years and I thought the best thing to do was to hand it to the Liverpool club museum,” said Jones, who played 72 times for the Merseysiders from 1975 to 1978.

“They didn’t put it up so the banner went back to Phil Downey, the fan who made it. I think as much of that banner as I do the winners’ medal. When I saw it at Rome, I couldn’t believe it.”

Two-time European Cup winner Case had a brief spell at Wrexham in their promotion season in 1993 and he rates that 1977 win as one of the best finals.

“I’ve looked back at European finals around that time and there were some pretty dull matches,” said Case. “Forest twice won 1–0, so did we, and there was Aston Villa, Hamburg, Juventus… all single-goal results. But that 1977 final was a cracker, end to end, with loads of chances. It could have gone either way.”

To have four former Liverpool players, who have won the European Cup and turned out for Wrexham is no mean feat but could we manage to put together a complete 16-man squad of men that have turned out for both sides over the years.

And the answer is yes.

The two keepers are Mike Hooper and Danny Ward.

New Liverpool player-boss Kenny Dalglish forked out £40,000 for Hooper in 1985 while Ward has been waiting his turn in the Anfield ranks after making a £200,000 move five years ago.

Kennedy and Jones are joined by Stephen Wright and Barry Jones in the back four.

Wright, who is youth team manager at Wrexham, played 17 times for his home-town club and made 59 appearance for Wrexham while former Liverpool reserve team captain Barry Jones switched Anfield for The Racecourse in 1992.

Liverpool’s all-time leading goalscorer, having scored a total of 346 goals, Rush amazingly didn’t score once in his 17 games for Wrexham.

He leads the line with Lee Jones, snapped up as an 18-year-old from Wrexham by Graeme Souness for £350,000 just after scoring in the 2-2 FA Cup fourth round draw at West Ham.

Linking up with Case in the midfield would be Rob Savage - not the Bradley one but a free-scoring midfielder, who grabbed 13 goals in a loan spell from Liverpool under Bobby Roberts’ reign in the 1982/83 season.

Danny Williams, who came through the Anfield junior ranks, made more than 150 Wrexham appearances in two spells and completing the starting line up is another who moved from Liverpool to Wrexham, Bertram Goode,

He only scored one in six for Liverpool but after signing for Wrexham in 1910, he smashed in 136 goals in 276 games.

Joining keeper Ward on the bench are: Stuart Mason, Ron Jones, Ryan Flynn and Brian Mooney while Dean Saunders would take the manager’s role.