Alan Hansen was the outstanding defender of his generation and helped to transform the world of punditry... news of his ill health will have devastated everybody at Liverpool and beyond, writes IAN LADYMAN

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Alan Hansen was the outstanding defender of his generation and helped to transform the world of punditry... news of his ill health will have devastated everybody at Liverpool and beyond, writes IAN LADYMAN

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For a five-second illustration of what made Alan Hansen the outstanding central defender of his and indeed many other generations, you need only to go to the footage of a Liverpool dismantling of Everton at Goodison Park in November 1982. In the eleventh minute of a game Liverpool were to win 5-0, Everton's Andy King plays a ball in to the feet of David Johnson only for Hansen to read the pass and steal the ball in front of his opponent with a yard to spare.
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