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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.

Bill Shankly

First is first,Second is nothing
BILL SHANKLY

Firsts Game Nothing Second
The very word ‘Anfield’ means more to me than I can describe.
BILL SHANKLY

I Can Mean
This city has two great teams – Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.
BILL SHANKLY

Cities Soccer Team
With him in defense, we could play Arthur Askey in goal. (after signing Ron Yeats)
BILL SHANKLY

Defense Goal Play
I’m a people’s man – only the people matter.
BILL SHANKLY

Matter Men People
Well the Kop’s exclusive. The Spion Kop at Liverpool is an institution. And if you are a member of the Kop you feel as if you are a member of a big society where you’ve got thousands of friends all roundabout you. And they’re united and loyal.
BILL SHANKLY

Bigs Institutions Loyal Society
For a player to be good enough to play for Liverpool, he must be prepared to run through a brick wall for me then come out fighting on the other side.
BILL SHANKLY

Fighting Running Wall
The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.
BILL SHANKLY

Football Games 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.
BILL SHANKLY

Real Singing Sound
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.
BILL SHANKLY

Football Married Wife
Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.
BILL SHANKLY

Football Games Simple
Train the right way. Help each other. It’s a form of socialism without the politics.
BILL SHANKLY

Helping Socialism Way
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.
BILL SHANKLY

Everything Hard Honest Score Skillful Totally
The problem with you, son, is that all your brains are in your head. (to a Liverpool trainee)
BILL SHANKLY

Brain England Son
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’.
BILL SHANKLY

Build Men People Selfless Share
If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.
BILL SHANKLY

Curtain Draws Garden

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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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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