50 years ago today ........

[Guest]

What does the B mean (brigade?)

brigade

[Bender]

SCDNWB

Tee is busy using a code breaker trying to work out what SCDNWB is ps Tee pm me when you find out

[Baracus]

brigade

Oh when the reds oh when the reds go marching on..

[scully]

We owe him absolutely everything.

[Guest]

We owe him absolutely everything.

Rafa

[Mike]

Really wish i was alive to see and experience the shankly era.

[Guest]

Really wish i was alive to see and experience the shankly era.

He resigned when I was 1 year old (or younger - not sure about the exact date). He was an absolute legend, the greatest ever manager. The only one who can claim to be as good was maybe Sir Matt Busby. But Shankly was the best IMO.

Every one of them after that were just trying to replicate what Shankly did. Ferguson is a notorious admirer of Shanks, though you won't see him brag about it in Manchester.

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Some great quotes by the legend


"When I've got nothing better to do, I look down the league table to see how Everton are getting along.”

“A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.”


“Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.”

“Me having no education. I had to use my brains.”

“Aim for the sky and you'll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you'll stay on the floor.”

“What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.”

“This city has two great teams - Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.”

“The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.”

“Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.”

“If you're not sure what to do with the ball, just pop it in the net and we'll discuss your options afterwards.”

If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing.”

“If a player isn't interfering with play or seeking to gain an advantage, then he should be!”

“Above all, I would like to be remembered as a man who was selfless, who strove and worried so that others could share the glory, and who built up a family of people who could hold their heads up high and say, 'We're Liverpool'.”

“They say Football's a matter of life and death - but it's more important than that”

“It was the most difficult thing in the world, when I went to tell the chairman. It was like walking to the electric chair. That's the way it felt.”

“I'm a people's man -- only the people matter.”

“I was only in the game for the love of football -- and I wanted to bring back happiness to the people of Liverpool.”

“If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I'd draw the curtains.”

“We murdered them 0-0.”

“Denis Law could dance on eggshells.”

Football(soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important”

“Denis, it's you, ... Where have you been? We have been worried about you.”

[Vermilion]

From June, but still interesting, and Shanks related.

How Bill Shankly's desk may have changed football
By Dan Kay on Jun 19, 08 09:44 AM in Journalists

THE desk Bill Shankly sat at to write out a furious resignation letter in 1964 is to go under the auctioneer's hammer in Liverpool.

The roll-top desk is included in a bundle of artefacts that will be sold by Cato Crane next week.

It comes from a collection gathered together by former player, coach and club stalwart Tom Bush, who spent 37 years at Anfield.

His son, Alan, explained the desk was bound up in a power struggle between the board and the manager that has a resonance in today's Premiership.

He said: "In 1962, Johnny Morrissey, a tough little Liverpool lad and striker, was sold to Everton by the Liverpool chairman TV Williams.

"Bill was so incensed he not been consulted that he typed his resignation out and left it on the desk.

"Walking out of the club he met my father, Tom, and Bob Paisley in the car park. Bill told them he had resigned and they were shocked.

"They made him go back into the club and they persuaded him not to resign. My father removed the letter and destroyed it.

"They then spoke to the club secretary the following day, and TV Williams effectively relinquished his power. He never bought or sold another player.

"That was the moment that managers began really to manage, and it was because of the stand that Bill took.

"It's something that has been kept 'in house' at the club for years, and this desk is at the centre of it."

When Mr Bush got hold of the desk nearly 40 years ago, he found a bundle of papers tucked at the back. They turned out to include some real gems, and the job lot will be auctioned off next Tuesday.

They include a match receipt from an FA cup tie between Liverpool and Everton, which reveals that Liverpool earned £2,607, 9 shillings from the gate.
There is also a "Liverpool Ladies Itinerary" for the players' wives and girlfriends attending the Liverpool versus Arsenal FA Cup Final in 1950.

The schedule is likely to make today's WAGs raise a well-sculpted eyebrow.

It includes a seaside visit to Brighton and Reigate as part of a tour that departed Liverpool Lime Street at 8.30am sharp on cup final Saturday.

The 1950s WAGs were put up in a Great Northern Hotel, the pocket-sized cardboard itinerary reveals.

Best of all may be a handwritten note from chairman George Richards to Don Welsh offering him the job as manager at LFC.

A simple three-page letter on headed notepaper in copper-plate script doubles up as Welsh's contract, for which he would receive an extra £500 for winning the FA Cup or league championship.

donwelshcontract.jpg

Mr Bush said: "This was all the bits of administrative 'rubbish' in the back of the desk. In 1970, I was a student at Liverpool University and I was working at Anfield when they were building the new stand.

"I was in one part of the building and in the corner was this desk, in bits, I remembered from when I was a boy.

"It had been used by all the post-war managers up to then. I brought it home and got a furniture restorer to fix it up."

Mr Bush wants the entire bundle of artefacts to be sold together and it is understood a representative from Liverpool FC Museum has been to look at it.

Auctioneer John Crane said: "The collection is so important, it would be a shame to spilt it up."

He values the lot at upwards of £1,500.

Eventually sold for £4,200

[Tee]

Never ever get tired of hearing stories about the great man. Bill Shankly, thank you very much and bless you!!

Only 24 posts in this thread?!!

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"When I've got nothing better to do, I look down the league table to see how Everton are getting along.”

“Above all, I would like to be remembered as a man who was selfless, who strove and worried so that others could share the glory, and who built up a family of people who could hold their heads up high and say, 'We're Liverpool'.”

[lickedlollipop]

Some great pictures of Shankly on official liverpool fc site..i'm still just a kiddo to comparison to others, but **** me i got goose bumps when i saw it... why the **** our players and even rafa can't act like that....

You'll never walk alone.. beat the *******s!

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To set the scene, Shanks is giving his team speach just prior to kick off in Liverpools dressing room at Old Trafford before playing United.......


Shanks proceeds to go through the whole United team one by one and tell his players their opponents weaknesses. He starts with Alex Stepney saying " he's useless going to his right and very weak on crosses and corner kicks." Shanks proceeds with players like Crerrand "no left foot" and on and on he goes right through the team.....

As he finishes, a young and naive Emyln Hughes realizes Shanks has only spoke about eight players and remarks.." Hey boss, what about Best, Law and Charlton"..

To which Shanks replies.."If yea cann eh beat three men, what kind of team are you.."

[red g]

in the early 70's liverpool went to chelsea and got beat so shanks sent his players home on the train with the fans

imagine that nowadays?

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n the dressing room after a particular game , Ray Clemence was appologising to the team for letting in a goal through his legs...
" Sorry lads " says Ray " I should have kept my legs closed "

To which Shankley replies " if your mother had done that we wouldn't be in this mess ! "