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

Bill Shankly

Train the right way. Help each other. It’s a form of socialism without the politics.
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Helping Socialism Way
Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.
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Football Games Simple
A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing.
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Football Funny Teamwork
Yes, Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them.
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Fans Missing Roger Soccer
Forget the Beatles and all the rest. This is the real Liverpool sound. It’s real singing, and it’s what the Kop is all about.
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Real Singing Sound
The difference between Everton and the Queen Mary is that Everton carry more passengers!
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Differences Queens Soccer Fans
The problem with you, son, is that all your brains are in your head. (to a Liverpool trainee)
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Brain England Son
What can you do, playing against eleven goalposts? (after 0-0 draw at Anfield)
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Anfield Country Eleven
My life is my work. My work is my life
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Game Hard Life Work
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.
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Football Simple Soccer
I’ve had many skilful men and the likes of Peter Thompson, Ian St John, Kevin Keegan and Steve Heighway were the ones who caught the eye. But the best professional of the lot was Gerry Byrne.
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Country Caught Eye Games Men Ones People
Ian Callaghan will go down as one of the game’s truly great players.
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Down Game Great Player
Which is the greatest quality of all. He was a true Liverpudlian who couldn’t look his fellow Scousers in the face after a game unless he’d given everything he had for 90 minutes.
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Game Greatest Minutes Ninty Quality Useless
It’s a 90 minute game for sure. In fact I used to train for a 190 minute game so that when the whistle blew at the end of the match I could have played another 90 minutes.
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Facts Games Soccer
The very word ‘Anfield’ means more to me than I can describe.
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I Can Mean
He wasn’t flashy and he wouldn’t score you goals. But he was hard and skilful and gave you everything he had. More than that he was totally honest.
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Everything Hard Honest Score Skillful Totally

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