The club’s most decorated player and one of the game’s finest ever full-backs, Neal was rarely absent from the Reds’ starting XI during a highly-distinguished Anfield career. Rarer still was an occasion when he had a bad game.
The first signing of Bob Paisley’s managerial reign in 1974, Neal made the No.2 shirt his own and went on to make a record 236 consecutive appearances between 1976 and 1983.
His value to the Liverpool cause was immeasurable.
Nicknamed ‘Zico’, but a dependable rather than spectacular right-sided defender, he set about his tasks with the minimum of fuss and was very much a team player.
Not many opposition wingers got the better of him, while at the opposite end of the pitch he made an equally vital contribution.
Neal netted a more-than-respectable 60 goals and set up countless others as a seemingly never-ending supply of winners medals came his way.
Click through our 50 Men Who Made LFC countdown below