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Pressure is working down the pit. Pressure is having no work at all. Pressure is trying to escape relegation on 50 shillings a week.

Bill Shankly

I would have played Tom Finney in his overcoat – there would have been four men marking him when we were kickin’ in.
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Four Men Overcoat
Me having no education. I had to use my brains.
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Brain Soccer Use
If he isn’t named footballer of the year, football should be stopped and the men who picked any other player should be sent to Kremlin. (on Tommy Smith)
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Football Men Player Stopped
With him in defense, we could play Arthur Askey in goal. (after signing Ron Yeats)
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Defense Goal Play
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 was in the game for the love of football – and I wanted to bring back happiness to the people of Liverpool.
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Football Games People
We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.
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Beats England Soccer
The best side drew (after a hard fought 1-1 draw)
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Country Draws Sides
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
The difference between Everton and the Queen Mary is that Everton carry more passengers!
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Differences Queens Soccer Fans
Its great grass at Anfield, professional grass.
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Anfield Football Grass
The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.
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Football Games Soccer
At a football club, there’s a holy trinity – the players, the manager and the supporters. Directors don’t come into it. They are only there to sign the checks.
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Football Player Soccer
Ian Callaghan will go down as one of the game’s truly great players.
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Down Game Great Player
If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.
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Curtain Draws Garden
When I’ve got nothing better to do, I look down the league table to see how Everton are getting along.
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League Looks Tables
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
Tommy Smith wasn’t born, he was quarried.
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Born Game Quarried Soccer
Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.
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Football Inspirational Motivational
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
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
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
If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.
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Funny Sarcastic Soccer
Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.
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Mao Red Shows
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
Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.
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Football Games Simple
Although I’m a Scot, I’d be proud to be called a Scouser.
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Liverpool Proud Scots

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