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2 days ago · William Shankly OBE (2 September 1913 – 29 September 1981) was a Scottish football player and manager who is best known for his time as manager of Liverpool. Shankly brought success to Liverpool, gaining promotion to the First Division and winning three League Championships and the UEFA Cup.
4 days ago · Bill Shankly was born on September 2, 1913, in the small Ayrshire mining village of Glenbuck, Scotland. The youngest of ten children, Shankly grew up in a tight-knit community where hard work and resilience were ingrained from an early age.
8 hours ago · Bill Shankly was leading the charge and the Reds had already knocked out Iceland’s Knattspyrnufelag Reykjavikur 11-1 on aggregate and then Anderlecht, next up was Cologne over two legs.
6 days ago · One piece of Anfield’s folklore sits proudly above the tunnel reading the words ‘This Is Anfield’, and it is thanks in part to Bill Shankly. Liverpool’s famous sign, which has had three...
Jun 6, 2024 · June 6, 2024. Sam Millne. For the latest edition of My Liverpool Life, we caught up with Gordon Wallace and George Scott who were players under Bill Shankly in the early 1960s. Wallace played...
2 days ago · Our season-long retelling of Bill Shankly’s final campaign as Liverpool manager brings us to May – and the club’s high point of 1973-74. When Shankly’s second great team won the FA Cup final in 1974 I was doing a week at the Shakespeare Theatre Club [one of Liverpool’s most famous music halls] just off London Road.
1 day ago · On December 14, 1959, Bill Shankly arrived at Anfield. When Shankly arrived, Liverpool had been in the Second Division for five years. The team had been defeated by Worcester City, a non-league team, during the 1958-1959 FA Cup. Though it was challenging, Shankly immediately felt the connection with the team’s supporters.
