Bill Shankly

William Shankly 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. He laid foundations on which his successors Bob Paisley and Joe Fagan were able to build by winning seven league titles and four European Cups in the ten seasons after Shankly retired in 1974. A charismatic, iconic figure at the club, his oratory stirred the emotions of the fanbase. Ronnie Moran, who was the captain of Liverpool when Shankly arrived in 1959, said "he was the one that resurrected the club."

Career

• Carlisle United F.C. 1932–1933
• Preston North End F.C. 1933–1949
• Cronberry Eglinton F.C. –
• Scotland men's national football team 1938–1943

Stories

• Keep training fresh, find a hobby... and know when to let top players leave: what Mikel Arteta can learn from greats such as Sir Alex Ferguson, Bob Paisley and Graham Taylor as he bids to join the 10-year brigade and build an Arsenal dynasty
• Hollywood star Jude Law to play Liverpool legend Bill Shankly in new TV series
• No triumphalism from Liverpool fans, just a resigned sense that the football had given way to utter irrelevance. A dark day at Anfield but Man City will probably not be here again, writes IAN HERBERT
• Working with Iraola, car clauses and hope - the Liverpool academy approach
• Liverpool FC's The Kop, 'something you'll find in no other stadium in the world'
• Brendan Rodgers has a statue outside Anfield, but is it Jurgen Klopp's heavy metal football or a Pep Guardiola dynasty at Man United? What happened if Man City didn't cheat
• JEFF POWELL MBE: Anyone who believes City are English football's only miscreants is delusional - more than one other club is privately grateful to them for taking all the heat. This is my five-point plan to truly repair the people's game
• Original Liverpool 'This Is Anfield' sign sells for £115,000 at auction
• 'This Is Anfield' sign fetches £115k at auction
• The story of Bill Shankly's lost Scottish village: Why it's being rebuilt, the memorial stone where Liverpool fans lay scarves, the two-room house where he grew up with NINE siblings and the ghost football pitch of the Glenbuck Cherrypickers