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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.

Bill Shankly

Of course I didn’t take my wife to see Rochdale as an anniversary present. It was her birthday and would I have got married during the football season? Anyway, it was Rochdale reserves.
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Football Married Wife
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
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
He’s not just the best centre-forward in the British Isles, but the only one. (about Ian St John)
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Country Forward Game Soccer
If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.
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Curtain Draws Garden
This city has two great teams – Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.
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Cities Soccer Team
My life is my work. My work is my life
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Game Hard Life Work
The difference between Everton and the Queen Mary is that Everton carry more passengers!
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Differences Queens Soccer Fans
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’.
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Build Men People Selfless Share
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.
BILL SHANKLY

Facts Games Soccer
The Spurs boss is an honest Yorkshireman and you will go a long way before finding a straighter character than that. Bill has never wavered in his determination to give White Hart Lane fans the best.
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Best Boss Character Fand Long Straighter
Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.
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Death Football Life Soccer
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
My idea was to build Liverpool into a bastion of invincibility. Had Napoleon had that idea he would have conquered the bloody world.
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Giving Ideas World
I’ve been a slave to football. It follows you home, it follows you everywhere, and eats into your family life. But every working man misses out on some things because of his job.
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Everywhere Football Home Jobs Life
We don’t need to motivate players because each of them is responsible for the performance of the team as a whole. The status of Liverpool’s players keeps them motivated.
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Motivate Motivated Performance Polymer Team

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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