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A player hailed by his manager Bill Shankly as being "born to score goals", his career at Anfield was cruelly cut down in its prime by injury. Arrowsmith, born in Hollingworth, Cheshire, was a record-breaking marksman in school and junior football. He cost Liverpool £1,500 in 1960 as a 17-year-old from Ashton United, where he had been a team-mate of future England star Alan Ball whose father, Alan senior, was manager. He made his debut in October of the following year, the season in which Liverpool won promotion back to the top flight. But he literally shot to prominence in 1963-64, scoring four times against Derby County on his FA Cup debut for the club and hitting 15 League goals in 20 outings to help fire Liverpool to the championship and into Europe for the first time. But on the eve of the following season, prior to Liverpool's trip to Reykjavik for their European debut, Arrowsmith suffered major damage to his left knee in a tussle with West Ham's Eddie Bovington in the Charity Shield duel at Anfield. Although he returned to action midway through the season Arrowsmith could never recapture his blistering scoring edge and he moved on to Bury for £25,000 in 1968 and later played for Rochdale and Macclesfield.
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