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I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.”, When Tommy Smith tried to explain his injured knee: “Take that bandage off. One of his more famous quotes is how football was more than just a game to him. The city of Liverpool itself, moreover, has not always been socialist. Stories of Shankly handing out wads of cash or tickets to Liverpool fans are legion. "To a young coach, it was an incredible experience working with Shankly," says Charles Mills, who met him in 1975, when he was starting out as PE teacher at an outdoor activity centre on the Wirral. Around 50 of Glenbuck's sons, including Shankly's four brothers, made it as professional footballers in the first half of the 20th century. The answer not quite. When there was no other game on, Shankly would head down to his local park and join in kickabouts with schoolboys.

And so, he busied himself in the only way he knew – by throwing himself back into the sport he loved. Things that my grandad would never have understood or approved of. He talked as if he wanted to give the impression that he'd be fit for the next match." Would I have got married in the football season? Offering spacious rooms, a trendy bar and restaurant and unseen memorabilia, you will never want to leave our Liverpool hotel. He'd retired, they hadn't pushed him out. This was mirrored in how he spoke about winning and losing.
Without more concrete roles within the professional game, he resorted to the grassroots of Merseyside soccer to get his football fix. Bill Shankly is one of the greatest managers of all time and Liverpool owe much of their history to his work both on and off the pitch. ", As a player and manager Shankly had lived in a world not just of men, but one of men's men. Our. He was conservative and unionist until the 1970s. Shankly turned it around, winning promotion within a year.

"He was never short of an audience," he says. His departure in 1974 was a shock but he left the club in safe hands in the shape of long-time assistant Bob Paisley who carried on his work and made them one of the most dominant clubs in European history. However, this last factor is immortalized in the words of one Goodison anthem that had its origin in the 1960s, when the historic internecine rivalry between Shankly's Liverpool and Catterick's Everton reached new heights: Oh we hate Bill Shankly, and we hate St John But most of all, we hate Big Ron But while Shankly's fury burned from the page, there was no sadness about him, says Roberts. As at Melwood, the players took to calling Shankly, rather than Yeats, boss. “In my time at Anfield we always said we had the best two teams on Merseyside, Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.”. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish.

It was a poor upbringing. Earlier apologies. Even as a player, Shankly's destiny seemed to be in management. John Keith believes that Shankly's huge charisma also worked against him and that Liverpool's board could not be blamed for wanting to keep him on the outside, having previously gone "on bended knee" to retain him. Everton, full strength, in form, packed with experience and overwhelming favourites, saw opportunity knocking for a first win at Anfield since September 1999 – some 7,405 days ago. The payoff was to be more money for clubs in the lower divisions, although Premier League clubs big and small should be discouraged. Shankly raised his hands and turned to his team, before facing his crowd again, arms still aloft as the staccato shouts of "Shankly, Shankly" rose in a deafening crescendo. They’ve got a big spirit…when they’re on your side and all working together they take a bit of a beating.”. https://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/first-team/124781-bill-shankly-in-quotes-1 One of 10 children, Bill Shankly was born in the Ayrshire coalmining village of Glenbuck in 1913. Defender Tommy Smith, the so-called "Anfield Iron", joined Liverpool as a 15-year-old in 1960 and was made captain in 1970. He was always a larger than life character and he was always prepared to talk to you about your career.". Bill Shankly and John W Henry had opposing philosophies on the subject of Liverpool. “You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are. At the club's AGM after failure to win promotion in 1961, Solly Isenwater, chairman of the shareholders' association, having demanded to know if Shankly had been letting his teams take it easy, tried to hold a vote of no confidence in the board. Kindness in giving creates love. It was deduced that this was so that he could position himself by the entrance of the Anfield boardroom and be seen by all the old faces – board members, former opponents, journalists – as they made their way in after the game. Anyway, it was Rochdale reserves.”. Then, with one hand in his pocket, and his team standing behind him, he started talking: "Since I came here to Liverpool, and to Anfield, I have drummed it into our players time and again that they are privileged to play for you. To imagine the state of Liverpool FC in 1959, you must conjure something entirely different to today's institution. In 1997 a seven-foot tall bronze statue of Shankly was unveiled outside the Kop; not that Liverpool paid for it – the club's sponsors, Carlsberg, funded the memorial. ", The personal demons – drink, depression, poverty – that consumed other forgotten stars never afflicted Shankly. Sometimes he was manipulated: after Liverpool beat Borussia Mönchengladbach to win the European Cup in 1977, Shankly was quoted by the Daily Mail as saying his former club were not the best team in Europe. “A lot of football success is in the mind,” he once said. John Toshack, who was signed as a 21-year-old striker from Cardiff City in 1970, says he was in awe of Shankly from the moment he met him. A direct follow on from the question as to whether Liverpool treated him poorly after he left. He was football's Muhammad Ali: a charismatic maverick whose utterances had an unexpected, undeniable poetry. And if they didn't believe me, they believe me now.". Supported by his clever coaches, the boot-room staff – Paisley, Joe Fagan and Reuben Bennett – that would enter club lore, he transformed Liverpool through sheer force of personality. Bellefield was a two minute walk from his home and he would often take the dog for a walk (Scamp! Unsurprisingly, given his gift for a quip, he flourished when given media work, which, by the standards of the era, came fairly frequently. Britain's best heavyweight is preparing to fight the fearsome, 7ft 2in Russian Nikolai Valuev – so why is he so relaxed? "It was his life, he couldn't not do it, it was part of him. You get families in Liverpool, half Everton and half Liverpool. On Fridays Shankly played five-a-side in Stanley Park with ex-pro Johnny Morrissey, famous for "crossing the park" from Liverpool to Everton. While Liverpool was an "ego trip" to them, for Shankly it was his life. He said: “If you are first you are first. Not normally a man to harbour grudges, he seemed to have been governed by a different set of principles in his dealings with the boardroom. This service is provided on talkSPORT Ltd's Terms of Use in accordance with our Privacy Policy. While the club's treatment of Shankly at first seems shameful, in shunning him they were merely following the same relentless winning ethic that Shankly himself had instilled. Harder still was that Liverpool became an even more formidable force, and later banned him from their training ground at Melwood, where the newly retired Shankly had tried to rediscover some of the camaraderie that once filled his life. . Indeed, on being exiled from Melwood, he began turning up at Everton's training ground, Bellefield, where he trained and sometimes helped Everton's club captain, Mick Lyons, coach the junior teams. ", Such episodes were pardoned by Robinson, but board members were less forgiving. So Klopp might be interested to know that when Shankly’s moment came to appear on Desert Island Discs, the book he chose to take with him as a castaway was The Life of Robert Burns by James Back. He says that Shankly became like a father to him – Smith's own father had died shortly before he signed, and Shankly "took care" of him. If your reservation has been affected by Covid-19, click here to rebook. It was a decision Shankly bitterly resented for the rest of his days. In truth, it was this that rankled with him.

You must believe you are the best and make sure you are. Liverpool was his life. A gritty right half, he made 337 appearances – a tally cut short by the war – over 16 years for the Lilywhites, including FA Cup finals in 1937 and 1938, the year Preston last won it. Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. He couldn't get football out of his mind. "They should get a new word for it. Yet FSG’s desire to wrest control from the collective and place it in the hands of the few richest races against everything Liverpool FC represents to millions of fans. Former club general manager Peter Moore said in an interview with El Pais last year that “when we talk about business matters we ask, ‘What would Shankly have done? Whenever we played in the north-west I'd invite him and he'd come along to the hotel, he'd have lunch with the players and give them a boost. In these moments of despair he would talk of "finishing", of walking out on the club and retiring. Look down from the heavens, Mr Shankly will surely have been nodding in approval. Now, though, it rings true in the most literal sense. "Prior to that, as a manager, he didn't actually take the training, he'd walk around and talk to Reuben Bennett, Joe Fagan and Bob Paisley and tell them what to do. I just have a sneaky feeling that the pressures of football management and the pressures of who he was and how he had to perform in front of people became too much in the end.