Shanks

[Dicko]

Bill Shankly.

02/09/1913 - 29/09/1981

YNWA.

 

Thanks Bill.

[JohnnyH]

Just a really great man. Yet golfers hate him! Go figure.

 

Built by Shanks - broke by Yanks.

[smilezzz]

The greatest manager to ever grace the game, and criminally underrated by the media.

 

RIP Bill

[RedinSweden]

I hate to think what he would think of our current situation. He would be heartbroken.

[ElScouser13]

Taken from another forum:

 

On the morning of 26 September 1981, Bill Shankly was admitted to Broadgreen Hospital following a heart attack. While in hospital he insisted on being nursed in an ordinary ward not a private one. "That is where he wanted to be", a hospital spokesman told the Liverpool Echo newspaper.

 

His condition was stable and it appeared that he was going to make a full recovery. There was no suggestion that his life was in danger.

 

The switchboard was jammed with concerned fans and prayers were said for him at the Sunday morning and evening services at both of the Anglican and Catholic Cathedrals. However, late on 28 September, Shankly's condition unexpectedly took a turn for the worse and he died, aged 68, on the 29 September 1981. He was cremated, and his ashes buried at the Anfield Crematorium on 2 October.

 

The Labour Party conference stood in a minute's silence when his death was announced, for a man who had always been a socialist. Sir Matt Busby was so upset when he heard the news of Shankly's death that he refused to take any telephone calls from people asking him for a reaction. Some years before his death, Shankly had paid tribute to Busby, saying that he was "greatest football manager ever".

 

On the evening following his death Liverpool defeated Oulun Palloseura 7-0 in the European Champions' Cup; prior to the kick off a banner was unfurled on the Kop which read "Shankly Lives Forever".

 

Four days after his death Liverpool played Swansea City in a first division match. Swansea manager John Toshack, a player Shankly had signed for Liverpool, wore a Liverpool shirt for the minute silence prior to the match.

 

From the mid-1990s Preston North End commenced a complete rebuilding of their ground to convert it into a modern all seater stadium. 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 the great man's head and shoulders.

 

Bill Shankly was made an inaugural inductee of the English Football Hall of Fame in 2002, in recognition of his impact on the English game as a manager.

 

Gone but never forgotten.

[King Emlyn]

He's everything Liverpool should be about. A truly great man.

[Sangria]

Those indeed were the days.

 

I am old enough to remember him leaving and I thought the world had ended, just could not see any future but the foundations were laid and carried on.

My mum to my embarrassment still tells the story to this day of me in tears and all I could get out was Shanks was leaving, she did not even know who he was, she thought it was some mate from school.

 

RIP

[Creator Supreme]

A true socialist, as well as being one of the great men, friends were other footballing greats (Stein, Busby), he left the year before I was born, but I feel that without him theres a chance I might not be a red, and despite the current situation, I thank him for that!!

 

RIP Shanks

[FortressAnfield]

The greatest manager to ever grace the game, and criminally underrated by the media.

 

RIP Bill

 

A great manager. RIP.

 

I started supporting Liverpool when he was in charge, and I never felt he was underrated by the media. Do you mean the current media? I don't think they hold anyone in any regard once they've retired, so, yes, they don't give him, or Revie, Catterick or even Busby, of their beloved Man Utd, any regard now. They will forget Ferguson a few years after he retires.

 

But at the time - I think the media gave him credit for being a great manager.

[Skidfingers McGonical]

He's everything Liverpool should be about. A truly great man.

 

Spot on.

 

I am often asked who would you invite to a dinner party, and Shanks is always the first person I say.

 

I can imagine him going mental to Bob and Joe about our current situation, and them trying to calm him down so he doesn't go postal up there.

 

I shall be raising a glass this evening to Bill. Never be forgotten. Best foundation layer the world has ever seen.

[Cherry Ghost]

Had the honour of meeting him briefly, a rare a man who had an aura surrounding him but at the same time did not see it himself. I watched his funeral in West Derby in 1981 and it was one of those days when the world had suddenly shrunk.

 

A 30th anniversary and a 100th birthday approach.

[RedMyst]

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[Guest barralad]

I have a 4 year old son who knows our hymn of by heart.I have 3 children who all love our club.I was not born in Liverpool,but I was lucky to be raised in a town that was the birthplace of one of our greatest players.He went to the same school as my parents, myself and my sisters,and lived a couple of hundred yards from where I was brought up and where I live now.

One of my sisters,who was 12 years older than me used to go with Emlyns brother to Anfield in the early seventies,and through chance this was the club I supported.

I dread to think what would have happened otherwise.

We shared a bedroom and the walls were covered with posters of the team.

I had no choice but to support Liverpool , but when I think about it now I was lucky as an out of towner to have such love for our club.

I repeatedly,show my kids videos of Shanks's philosophy on football and more importantly life i.e in the army "I would want my dishes to be cleaner than yours...".

Great,Great Man.

God Bless you Shanks.

[johnshields83]

Never forgotten. We need another Shanks. YNWA