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‘My Scouse accent wasn’t deliberate, but I didn’t step away from it either’ Jan Molby on the linguistic talents that matched his genius on a football pitch

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‘My Scouse accent wasn’t deliberate, but I didn’t step away from it either’ Jan Molby on the linguistic talents that matched his genius on a football pitch


Jan Molby arrived on Merseyside in the summer of 1984 for a ten-day trial with Joe Fagan’s Liverpool. He made his debut less than two weeks after his first training session.

The following season new player-manager Kenny Dalglish made him a proper first-team regular and he had his best campaign in red. A cult Liverpool player was born. In 2022 FourFourTwo named him the 35th best Liverpool player of all-time and the club’s 27th best ever signing.

His 21-goals in 1985-86 culminated in a man-of-the-match performance in the first ever all-Merseyside FA Cup Final which Liverpool won 3-1. Molby had a hand in all three goals.

Jan Molby, honorary scouser

The Dane’s interviews became legendary. He told FourFourTwo he soon realised his was talking like a local.

“I was quick to pick up all of those things. I did show willingness as, in 1984, it was a big thing for an English club to sign a foreign player and I think everybody thought, ‘Is he going to get involved or not?’



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