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Liverpool's away support was better than most in those pre-motorway days, but numbers varied on how far away a game was. The south coast would have been a stiff journey from the north-west, but the gate that day of nearly 19,000 would have contained a couple of thousand Liverpool fans. For games...

I’m writing a book about Liverpool's promotion campaign of 1961-62 and, for each away game, I'm trying to capture the flavour of football in that era. Liverpool visited Brighton in mid-September 1961, when the Seagulls became the first team to take a point off Liverpool that season (0-0 draw)...