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I know I posted some of these articles in LFC in the Media thread, but I thought I would put them over here as well. For the ones I already posted in the other thread I will just put a link, but if I haven't posted them in the other thread, I will post the full text here.

In case you didn't know, Anfield's Treasures is a series that LFC.tv are running to showcase certain items found in the team's museum. So there you have it. These articles are all worth a read if you are interested in some interesting parts of the club's history.

Hunt's 1966 World Cup Winners Medal

Paisley's Paintings

Villa de Madrid Trophy

2005 Champions League Banner

Grobelaar's Testimonial Trophy

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Why Reds Can Boast 20 League Titles

Ask any Kopite how many League titles Liverpool Football Club have won and 99 times out of 100 they'll tell you it's 18.

It's widely regarded as the record number of championship triumphs in England, but in actual fact, we've won 20.

We won one in the First World War and another one in the Second World War.

It's generally accepted that you are not really supposed to count those, but I know there are some clubs that are starting to include them in their honours list.

Whether you add them to the other 18 or not - the fact is that Liverpool have won two other championships.

Need proof of that?

Well, in the museum we have the Championship trophy from the 1942-43 season. It's from the North Championships Second Round competition. It may sound a bit complicated, but what it basically means, is that England was split up into the North and South to cut down on the amount of travelling.

They cut the fixture list in half too, because there was a fear that England may have been invaded and they weren't sure whether they would be able to complete a full season.

In some ways it sells the players short to discount them from the overall number of titles. The games were being played in very dark times under the shadow of war and so they were hardly taking it easy.

The trophy is quite modest in size because resources were very scarce, but it was regarded as something of morale-booster to have something to play for.

I'm rather fond of it and if our rivals start to get too close then I suppose we could start to count the 20, couldn't we!?

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Ephraim Longworth's Medal Collection

This guy is a Liverpool legend.

He made 371 appearances between 1910 and 1928 and was the club's first player to captain England.

One of the great tragedies of being a footballer who played so many years ago, is that you tend to get forgotten. Obviously people can't remember him playing and many of those who were fortunate enough to have seen him in action aren't alive anymore.

But he did win a lot of honours and was a very important defender in the side. He also had an extremely interesting career.

After he finished playing he actually ended up as the groundsman during Bill Shankly's reign and became a close friend of his during his Shanks' later years.

Longworth's family kept everything from his time with the Reds and as a result we have all of his medals on show in the museum.

He won two league championships with the club and played in our first FA Cup final appearance too. That was against Burnley in 1914 and we have his runners-up medal from it as well as all seven of his England caps.

He also played a lot of post-World war representative games. This was a common occurrence after both the First and Second World War's where the Football League would play lots of high profile friendly games.

They were mainly arranged in order to boost morale, but it also helped raise funds for war widows etc.

As I say, it's a very special collection and fantastic to have something from an era so long ago.

It also helps to remind us that just because we can't remember a player it doesn't mean that they weren't great footballers.

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A Great Day In Our History

In our latest peek behind the walls of Anfield's famous museum, curator Stephen Done invites us to take a stroll down memory lane and the glory of our first FA Cup Final win in 1965.

This is the actual jersey worn by Ian St John in the 1965 FA Cup Final.

Back in those days the FA Cup was absolutely huge. I've spoken to many fans who were there all those years ago and the build up to the Wembley showdown with Leeds United was massive.

In fact, they even go as far as to say that winning it for the very first time that year was more important to them than the subsequent European Cup successes in 1977 and 2005.

We may have a different opinion about that now, but back then it was the most important thing that Liverpool could possibly win.

It was a very intense game of football. Both sides were pretty much equal in terms of their quality and stature in the world of football at the time.

It also saw Bill Shankly pit his wits against Don Revie, so to put it simply, it had all the ingredients to be a titanic clash.

We all know now that we went on to win the match 2-1 and Ian St John scored the famous diving header that won us the cup.

So it's quite wonderful to have the shirt in which he made such a huge imprint on Liverpool's history here in the museum. It still looks brand new even now.

It's very generous of Ian to allow us to display it in the museum and it's certainly one of the most important items we have here.

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The Burning Stub Collection

We have a number of great Albert Stubbins items here in the Museum, with the most notable being his 1950 FA Cup final shirt. You can even see that there's still a little bit of Wembley mud splattered on it.

Nicknamed the 'Burning Stub', he was a massive player for Liverpool back in the 1940s and 1950s.

He signed from Newcastle United in September 1946 after the Reds had suffered a humiliating 5-0 defeat against rivals Manchester United. In seven years at the club he went on to score 83 goals in 178 matches and was widely regarded as one of the finest marksmen in the country.

We've got both his 1946-47 Championship medal and his 1950 FA Cup runners-up medal here, but perhaps the most interesting medal we have of his came into the museum only recently. We weren't even aware that he had actually received it.

In the year of the 1948 London Olympics he was voted one of the top sportsmen in the land. There were only 12 people given this and it was quite an achievement for him to be included in that list, particularly as he wasn't involved in the Olympics.

t was a great honour for him, but then he was an exceptional footballer. He made a massive impact at Anfield and played an instrumental role alongside the likes of Liddell, in helping us to win the 1946-47 Division One championship.

His ability was such that he even received recognition away from football.

He is still the only footballer to appear on a Beatles album cover after featuring on the front of Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

It was something he was immensely proud of, and goes to show just how big his overall impact on the city of Liverpool was.

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Kenny Crowned King By His Peers

This is the Players' Player of the Year Award for 1982 and it can only have gone to one player, the irrepressible Kenny Dalglish.

There's actually a nice photograph of him holding it with that lovely grin that he's got!

All the players knew how good he was. He is truly one of the greatest to have ever played for Liverpool FC and quite possibly one of the finest to have ever played in Great Britain - a true genius.

This trophy was awarded to him in 1982 and there were many more years of success to follow.

There was a great quote someone said about him in 1986 when he was player manager. I can't quite remember who it was but they said: "I'd hate to see what he is going to do when he goes full-time!"

He didn't disappoint them either, as he led us to two more league titles and an FA Cup!

This trophy here may not be the most beautiful one you will come across in the museum, but it is another example of the importance of Kenny Dalglish and how well respected he was by his fellow professionals.

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Memories of '86 - King Kenny's Shirt

In our latest peek behind the walls of Anfield’s famous museum, curator Stephen Done reminisces about one of our finest hours against Everton.

As we head into a week that sees us face a mouthwatering derby double-header with Everton, it is perhaps fitting that we have chosen to look at an item from one of our finest ever triumphs against the Toffees.

It is the shirt and tracksuit top that the great Kenny Dalglish wore back in 1986.

The first all-Merseyside FA Cup final was a great occasion for everyone associated with the club as we came from behind to beat our neighbours 3-1 at Wembley.

It not only meant that we lifted the FA Cup, but it also saw us clinch our first and only league and FA Cup double.

It would prove to be one of the highlights of King Kenny's career and capped a remarkable first season as player/manager.

We also have some other items from Dalglish's time at Anfield in this cabinet, including the actual Canon League trophy. When you won the league back in those days you used to get this strange piece of silverware along with the championship trophy we all know and love.

t's a nice quirky item to have along with a host of fantastic Dalglish memorabilia.

Kenny's is just one a number of great shirts that we have here and you will notice that none of them are signed.

People have this idea that the shirts should have someone's name written all over it. But what you discover is that 'real' shirts, actually worn by the players, are not signed. They don't need to be.

This is Kenny's shirt, worn in that famous final and owned by him.
It sets them apart from the sort of framed shirts you see in pubs - this is the real McCoy.

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Shankly's Lucky Jumper

This black jumper is one of our (the museum's) greatest discoveries.

Bill Shankly's family informed me about it and told me that the great man used to wear it to training for several years. There's a famous picture of him wearing this up at Melwood, so I knew exactly what jumper they were talking about.

I can't believe we actually have it and that it has survived all this time.

Under the public spotlight Shanks would always appear immaculately dressed and often wore nicely tailored suits.

But when it came to his day-to-day life he was just like everyone else, happy to get muddy and wear an old shabby jumper. That was the serious business as far as he was concerned.

We've also got his 1974 FA Cup final tracksuit top which has long been a bit of favourite of mine.

Back in the late 1990s we actually made a replica of this and sold it in the club shop. To this day it's still a big seller and it's easy to see why, as it provides an almost iconic image of Shankly in his tracksuit top.

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Why No One Can Fill Billy Liddell's Boots

We have a cabinet here at the museum that is dedicated to the legendary Billy Liddell.

If you get a chance to visit us, you will see a whole host of items that offer an insight into the career of one of Liverpool's true greats, including a pair of his boots, the 1946-47 championship medal, three Scotland caps and the first contract he signed.

He's considered by many to be one, if not THE, greatest footballer to have ever played for the club.

You can argue a case for some fantastic names, like Kenny Dalglish, Ian Rush, Steven Gerrard etc and you'd have to include Billy alongside those legends.

He had a fantastic attitude and loyalty that went with his undoubted ability as a footballer. His prime position was as a raiding left-winger but he also excelled on the opposite flank, at centre forward or inside forward - he was that good.

Just look at these boots he wore. These are big, heavy steel-toe cap boots and yet he could kick like nobody else - he was a tough player. But he was also very fair and never got sent off. He never argued with the referees.

He won the league with us, got to the FA Cup final but then ended up in a Second Division side. Liverpool were going nowhere slowly but he didn't complain and never asked to leave.

He could have played for anyone but chose not to and it just goes to show his influence on the team when you see that they were nicknamed 'Liddellpool' during his time there.

Despite the fact he played in the Second Division, he stands alongside Sir Stanley Matthews as one of only two players to have played twice for Great Britain and the United Kingdom.

We have the two shirts he wore when they took on Europe in 1947 and 1955 respectively. It is a great honour and showed how good a player he was.

Sadly, he died from Alzheimers disease in July 2001 at the age of 79, but will always be remembered as one of the finest players to have ever graced these shores.

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Up Close With Carragher's Medals

The way Carra donated his medals to the Museum is typical of the man.

I got a phone call from Melwood telling me there was something up there that I should go and have a look at. When I enquired as to what that was, they told me it was big bag of medals!

Jamie had just brought them in, dumped them on the desk and told them to give Stephen Done a call.

So off I went and there they were, in this bag. He didn't want a receipt or anything. He just told me to put them on show in the museum and walked off.

It was absolutely unbelievable. It is one of the great moments I have had here as a museum curator and shows just how down to earth and trusting our favourite number 23 is.

I have to say that I think it is one of the most exciting additions we have ever received.

For me, it ranks alongside the Kenny Dalglish and Alan Hansen collections that are already on show.

We gave the medals pride of place in the museum just before Christmas and I am proud to say it includes everything he has won, from the FA Youth Cup medal of 1996 through to the Champions League winners' medal from 2005.

We also have the runners-up medal from Athens in 2007. Although it is only a runners-up medal it is an extremely beautiful one.

Not that Carra will see it that way, of course. He's a born winner and will no doubt still be frustrated it wasn't his second European Cup triumph.

Aside from that, we've also got his FA Cup medal, the UEFA Cup medal and the Worthington Cup medal from the 2001 treble winning season.

When you look at this collection you realise just how incredibly successful Liverpool have been since the turn of the century.

It also illustrates how fantastic Jamie Carragher has been as a player.

The cabinet is already overflowing but I have a feeling that before he hangs up his boots there will be plenty more to show off.

He's already regarded by many as a legend in his own right and is a name you have to include when it comes to talking about the greatest defenders to have played for the club.

With any luck, he may add a few more to his collection this season and top it off with the only one that is missing, the Barclays Premier League title.