He laid foundations on which his successors Bob Paisley and Joe Faganwere able to build by winning seven league titles and four European Cups in the ten seasons after Shankly retired in 1974. [37], Shankly had just reached his 26th birthday when the Second World War began and the war claimed the peak years of his playing career. Oktober 1981Original engl. [163] In Tommy Smith's view, Shankly was completely in tune with the city of Liverpool; he loved the supporters and they loved him, mainly because they knew he understood them. SHANKLY: NATURE'S FIRE explores the remarkable life and career of BILL SHANKLY, the legendary Liverpool Football Club manager who came to leave such a legacy in his adopted home city. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.“, „Someone said to me 'To you football is a matter of life or death!' [57], Shankly's public persona was that of a "tough guy" with the swagger of his favourite film star James Cagney but privately he was very different. One young boy got killed at his work and a bus load of 50 people came to Anfield one Sunday to scatter his ashes at the Kop end. When the former Spion Kop end was replaced by a new stand in 1998, it was named the Bill Shankly Kop and was designed with different coloured seats providing an image of Shankly's head and shoulders. [24], Shankly had a single season, 1932–33, at Carlisle United, then relatively new to the Football League and playing in the Third Division North, their reserve side playing in the North Eastern League. [54] He took a speculative shot towards goal from 50 yards and the ball bounced over the England goalkeeper's head and into the net. Schöne Zitate.Teilen Sie Ihre Leidenschaft für Zitate. [176], From Liverpool's point of view, the situation was that Shankly had retired and the club had to move on. [32] Shankly's initial reaction was that it was not enough and the deal nearly fell through. Rumours began and were fuelled by Liverpool's visit to Leeds Road on 28 November. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the … [136] This was Kevin Keegan and he was such an important addition to the new Liverpool team that Shankly devoted an entire chapter of his autobiography to him entitled A Boy Called Keegan. [86], Liverpool consolidated in 1962–63, finishing eighth in their first top flight season under Shankly's management. [94] He instituted a development programme to cultivate the site and modernise the facilities. They had met earlier during World War II, when Bill was serving as a Corporal with the RAF and "Nessie", who was six years younger, was serving with the WRAF. [60], One of Shankly's players at Carlisle was Geoff Twentyman, then a promising young centre half, who was later transferred to Liverpool. Shankly's granddaughter, Karen Gill, said to The Observer in 2009: "I think that perhaps it was tiredness, that football had taken its toll on him". [171], On the morning of 26 September 1981, Bill Shankly was admitted to Broadgreen Hospital following a heart attack. During a playing career that began at Carlisle United, but saw him established as full Scotland international while at Preston North End, Shankly was known as a 'firm but fair', hard-working Right Half. They improved to ninth in 1949–50 and then to third in 1950–51, almost gaining promotion. [171] It bears the legend: "He made the people happy". [169] Tommy Smith said that Shankly's feelings for Nessie were undoubtedly a major reason for his decision. He was a director, known for, FA Cup Third Round Replay Liverpool FC vs Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic, Fifty Bighearted Years: The Variety Club of Great Britain's Tribute to Arthur Askey, Wayne Rooney To Be Subject Of Official Documentary From ‘Maradona’ Producer Lorton — Cannes, Busby review – Manchester United's great manager remains an enigma, It's a Tough Life 1: Apprentice Footballers, Liverpool in Europe: The Official History. The foundations Shankly laid at Melwood manifested in success at Anfield. Treten Sie uns bei. Die Tabelle gibt zudem Aufschluss über den Amtsein- und den -austritt des Trainers, seine genaue Funktion im Verein, die Anzahl der Spiele und den erreichten Punkteschnitt. [37], Shankly played for Scotland 12 times from 1938 to 1943 in five full and seven wartime internationals. [86], In spite of the difficulties, Shankly felt immediately at home in his new club and he believed that he shared an immediate bond with the supporters, who he saw as his kind of people. [124] In September 1968, he paid £100,000 (equivalent to £1,747,045 in 2019)to Wolverhampton Wanderers for their teenage striker Alun Evans who thus became "football's first £100,000 teenager". People born there would often move to find work in larger coal mines. This is the true story of Liverpool. When the team was travelling to Lincoln City, he saw a sportswear shop in Doncaster and stopped the coach to buy a full set of kit in which the team played at Lincoln. M4 3BG, © 2015 National Football Museum. As a visitor at Melwood, he began to intervene and Paisley's initial pleasure on seeing him soon turned to polite embarrassment. He said to the policeman: "Don't you do that. He was considered a promising key young player who was capable of taking Carlisle to greater things. [126], Many of the new players came to Liverpool because of a new scouting system created by Shankly in 1967 and placed under the control of new chief scout Geoff Twentyman, who had played for Shankly at Carlisle and had then spent several seasons at Liverpool, retiring shortly before Shankly's appointment. Bill Shankly was born on September 2, 1913 in Glenbuck, Ayrshire, Scotland as William Shankly. They are only there to sign the cheques. [167], Shankly was 60 when Liverpool won the 1974 FA Cup final and said in his autobiography that, on returning to the dressing room at the end of the match, he felt tired from all the years. Typical of this was his joke about the city having two great football teams – Liverpool and Liverpool reserves. Shankly described it as one of the most amazing games he had ever seen. [130] Although Shankly sometimes paid large transfer fees he was loath to do so and Twentyman's brief was to find young players so he (Shankly) could mould them into what he wanted. Shankly did not understand that, by turning up for training at Melwood, he was effectively undermining Bob Paisley's status as manager. Nessie survived her husband by more than 20 years, dying in August 2002 at the age of 82. [127], In the 1969–70 FA Cup quarter final, Liverpool played against struggling Second Division side Watford at Vicarage Road and lost 1–0 after a very poor performance. [48], Shankly had enormous admiration for Tom Finney and devotes more than three pages of his autobiography to Finney's prowess as a footballer. [30], At this stage of his career, Shankly was assessed as "a hard running, gritty right-half"[nb 1] whose displays brought him much praise and credit. [155] In what proved to be Shankly's last competitive game in charge, Liverpool produced a superb second half performance to defeat Newcastle 3–0 at Wembley. Shankly's biographer Stephen Kelly quotes the "pound for pound" analysis but qualifies it as another of Shankly's slight, though well-meant, exaggerations. [59], Shankly began his managerial career at the club where his professional playing career had started. His condition appeared to be stable and there was no suggestion that his life was in danger. [169], Shankly had considered retirement in previous years. Shankly worked on set pieces such as throw-ins and tried to devise a method of counter-attacking from corners conceded. [44] Shankly met his wife, Nessie, in the RAF (she was in the WAAF and stationed at the same camp) and they married in 1944. [118] Even today, the Liverpool website describes the match by saying that Liverpool were denied at the semi-final stage by a dishonest referee in Milan. He used to cycle to and from the ground. Stars Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Eddie Redmayne share their 5 reasons not to miss The Trial of the Chicago 7 on Netflix. "[177] Shankly's visits even went as far as actually taking over the training. Shankly took charge of Liverpool when they were in the Second Division and rebuilt the team into a major force in English and European football. [10], All five Shankly brothers played professional football and Shankly claimed they could have beaten any five brothers in the world when they were all at their peaks. [60] Shankly recalled that Brunton Park was dilapidated, writing that the main stand was falling to pieces and the terraces derelict. Sunday Times, 4. Image courtesy of Mirrorpix. He wrote that even if the opponent is injured in the tackle, it is not a foul if you have timed everything right and you've won the ball. It’s the greatest thing in the world, natural enthusiasm. He said that he and his friends learned from their mistakes and became better people in later years. [48] Shankly summed up the essential criteria for success in football management when he claimed he could speak common sense about the game and could spot a good player. He said there were times when he felt like walking out. [131] Shankly also wanted Twentyman to check the player's personality and ensure he had the right attitude for a professional footballer. [54] Perhaps his most memorable international was the wartime game at Wembley on 18 April 1942 when Scotland won 5–4 and Shankly scored his only Scotland goal. [44] He confirmed in his autobiography that his weight as an RAF boxer was 159 pounds (72 kg) and he was only six pounds (2.7 kg) heavier than that in 1976. He talked about the Kop “sucking the ball into the net”, and made spectators feel like participants in games. The following season Shankly’s side lifted the FA Cup for the second time. Shankly had overseen a transformative period that was returning the club to greatness. [23], Shankly's village team was called the Glenbuck Cherrypickers, a name probably derived from the 11th Hussars (the "Cherry Pickers"), but he said the club was near extinction when he had a trial and he never actually played for them. One of this season's discoveries, Bill Shankly, played with rare tenacity and uncommonly good ideas for a lad of 20. [65], Grimsby made a strong challenge for promotion in 1951–52 but finished second, three points behind Lincoln City (only one team was promoted from Division Three North, with one from Division Three South).
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