Talking Shankly: The Man, the Genius, the Legend

by TomDarby (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1998

  $13.51

  There is no doubt that Bill Shankly was one of the greatest football managers of all time. The former miner from the tiny Lanarkshire village of Glenbuck used football as an escape from the harshness and danger of life down the pit. After spells as a player with Carlisle and Preston North End, Shankly took over as manager of Second Division Liverpool, and his first success in 1962 as Liverpool took the Division Two championships. Two years later they were league champions and followed that up in 1965 by winning the FA Cup for the first time in their history. Over the next nine years, Shankly ruled supreme at Anfield. Tom Darby has spoken to some of the men Shankly moulded into great footballers - among them Yeats, St John, Tommy Smith, Steve Heighway, Emlyn Hughes and Kenny Dalglish - who recall their memoirs of Shanks for this book. He has also interviewed Shankly's family and gathered together stories from ordinary Liverpudlians whose lives were touched, directly or indirectly, by the genius Scotsman.

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  Paperback
  2001

  $3.74

  There is no doubt that Bill Shankly was one of the greatest managers of all time. The former miner took over at Second Division Liverpool in 1959. The changes he made there were nothing short of revolutionary and few would argue that it was he who transformed the sleeping giant into the great club it is now. To the people of the city he was a hero they could relate to and even today, more than 25 years since his death, he is remembered with love and admiration. Tom Darby has spoken to some of the men Shankly moulded into great footballers - among them Ron Yeats, Ian St John and Kenny Dalglish - who recall their memories of him for this book. He has also gathered together stories from ordinary Liverpudlians whose lives were touched by the genius Scotsman. Whether profound, witty or sarcastic, Bill Shankly's comments on life and football are as relevant and entertaining today as they were in the 1960s and '70s. Talking Shankly is a timely tribute to a true hero.