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It was the most colourful decade of the 20th Century.

But in the Swinging Sixties football was in black and white.

Match of the Day didn’t go colour until the penultimate month of the decade – November 1969 when Liverpool v West Ham got the technicolour treatment – while newspapers were black and white for even longer.

Echo reader Kevin Rathe, though, has a colour shot of the full Liverpool squad from the summer of 1960.

It’s possibly the oldest full colour Liverpool line-up we’ve ever published – and it’s a fascinating image.

“I turned up at Melwood when all the press photographers were taking their annual squad pictures,” explained Kevin. “But they were all using black and white film. I had colour film in my camera and asked Shanks if it would be okay to take a picture.

“He told me: ‘Course you can, son. You’ll probably take a better picture than most of that lot!’”

Most Echo readers will agree.

On what looks like a beautiful summer’s day the Reds lined up in their old red shirts with white V-necks, white shorts with a red stripe and white socks. Liverpool’s famous all-red strip was still four years later.

There are plenty of familiar faces on display.

Former Evertonian Dave Hickson is on the second row seated (far right), future Evertonian Johnny Morrissey is on the same row (second from left) sat next to a very young Ian Callaghan.

A youthful Anfield legend Roger Hunt is on the third row, standing in between Bobby Campbell and Gerry Byrne.

Goalkeeper Tommy Lawrence is in the brown jersey, while three places to his left is Anfield icon, the great Billy Liddell. On the back row Jimmy Melia is looking away just as Kevin shouted “Cheese!” alongside Dick White and Ronnie Moran.

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