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what would he have said?

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'Look at all these new age 'fans' cheering on corporates like John Henry & Ian Ayre.'

 

'This is how people 'support' the club today?'

 

Oh you.

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I was not born till 84 so to young for his era. I love to ask any old folk how they felt the day he retiered. What would it compere to in modern day football or was it far greater than that.

 

Edit. By greater i obviously mean do any modern day managers or feelings even compare to how you felt back then.

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I was not born till 84 so to young for his era. I love to ask any old folk how they felt the day he retiered. What would it compere to in modern day football or was it far greater than that.

 

Edit. By greater i obviously mean do any modern day managers or feelings even compare to how you felt back then.

 

I was born in 84 . my dad and my grandad made sure i knew shanks as if he was my own grandad.

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I was born in 84 . my dad and my grandad made sure i knew shanks as if he was my own grandad.

 

Like the club you support is passed down from father to son so is the history.

 

Good stuff.

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Shanks would have said, pointing to the League Championship trophy, this is our bread and butter.

 

Not fourth spot.

 

And in order to butter bread thesedays, you need money. Rightly or wrongly.

 

We are the 8th richest club in the world (Forbes Report).

 

We ought to be able to aim higher than 4th in England.

 

And yet our owners and new manager can't even tell us when we might expect to finish fourth again, let alone higher.

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I was not born till 84 so to young for his era. I love to ask any old folk how they felt the day he retiered. What would it compere to in modern day football or was it far greater than that.

 

Edit. By greater i obviously mean do any modern day managers or feelings even compare to how you felt back then.

 

I remember it and the first reaction was to laugh and suggest that it was all some sort of wind up - I still didn't get my head around it for about 6-8 weeks later. The Key to it was that Paisley stepped up and carried on being great for us. That left a sense of great loss but also a sense of us being that good we could handle anything. Essentially we fooled ourselves into thinking that the majesty of being Kings of football would never end. Wheras, in reality it really was the start of the end of the great, great Liverpool teams of that era.

 

Paisley worked wonders, Old Joe Fagan carried it on - begrudgingly - Kenny picked up the reins and drove us even further forward.

 

And this gets to my point - Hillsborough was a far far worse thing to happen but I can't really think of anything else in between the tradgedy of Hillsborough and the Shankly retirement that had that much of an effect on the club.

 

It seems to me that Shankly BUILT the foundations of our great establishment and Hillsoborough rocked those foundations to the core.

 

Only time will tell if we recover.

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He'd be disgusted with the behavior of some so called fans.

It would tear him apart to see fans constantly bickering instead of getting behind the team .

 

Absolutely right. If Anfield was full of supposed fans putting smartarsery and oneupmanship above supporting the club he'd have never left Huddersfield.

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