Ray Kennedy's Liverpool Football League Division One Championship medal season 1981-82, gold and enamel, inscribed FOOTBALL LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP, DIVIS

Ray Kennedy's Liverpool Football League Division One Championship medal season 1981-82, gold and enamel, inscribed FOOTBALL LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP, DIVISION 1 WINNERS, the medal has been mounted in a frame together with a colour photograph of Kennedy and printed career biography, 56 by 27cm., 22 by 10 3/4in.; the original medal case has been preserved and is also offered with the lot (2) Provenance: The Ray Kennedy Collection, Christie's, 20th October 1993 In a highly successful career Ray Kennedy won honours at every senior domestic and European level with Arsenal and Liverpool. The present medal was awarded for his sixth and final Championship win, and his fifth for Liverpool during his final season at Anfield. The reds finished the 1981-82 season with a total of 87 points, four clear of Ipswich Town. After short spells at Swansea and Hartlepool Ray Kennedy was forced to retire from the game having started to suffer the initial symptoms of Parkinson's disease.