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This city has two great teams – Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.

Bill Shankly

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.
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Bigs Institutions Loyal Society
What can you do, playing against eleven goalposts? (after 0-0 draw at Anfield)
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Anfield Country Eleven
I wanted Liverpool to be untouchable. My idea was to build Liverpool up and up until eventually everyone would have to submit and give in.
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Eventually Everyone Idea Liverpool Wanted
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
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 trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.
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Football Games Soccer
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
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
The best side drew (after a hard fought 1-1 draw)
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Country Draws Sides
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
My life is my work. My work is my life
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Game Hard Life Work
Tommy Smith wasn’t born, he was quarried.
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Born Game Quarried Soccer
I don’t drop players. I make changes.
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Changes Inspirational Making Player
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
Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.
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Football Games Simple
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

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