Where Was Former Liverpool Player Steve Heighway Born?
Stephen Derek Heighway was born in Dublin, Ireland in November nineteen forty seven. As a youth Heighway played for Merseyside team Skelmersdale United. In nineteen seventy he was spotted by the then Liverpool manager Bill Shankly who drafted the services of the Irish wnger in to Anfield; at the time Heighway was still studying for his degree, and as a result was nicknamed little Bamber, as a reference to the host of University Challenge, Bamber Gascoigne. Heighway went on to play over three hundred league games for Liverpool, scoring fifty league gaols in the process. He left Liverpool in nineteen eighty one to play for the Minnesota Kicks in the MSL in America. Heighway also represented the Republic of Ireland on thirty four occasions, in an international career that spanned nine years. He is currently director of the Liverpool FC Youth Acadamy, and has been involved in the bringing through of players such as Steven Gerrard and Jamie Carragher.
