BILL SHANKLY AT BELLEFIELD

[peteblue]

Wasn't Rogers a guest at one of our games following/before the Hillsborough memorial at Anfield in 13/14? Think we lost too if I remember correctly.

To mention Rodgers in the same thread as Shankly is to do Shankly a grievous disservice ..........

 

[Joey66]

He was alright Shankly, The Catt was a better manager but Shankly was loved by the media (before all the RS infestation).......

They were two opposites , Harry was under pressure from John Moores, and a strict disciplinarian with the players where Shankley feared no one on the board as he had unfortunately for us broke the mould , and put LFC on the map, he feared no one , and was a media expert, Harry was of fish with the press, and banned U.S. From TV in the beginning - polar opposites , but great Managers of their era!

 

[Pat's Van]

To mention Rodgers in the same thread as Shankly is to do Shankly a grievous disservice ..........

although they are both nobs, so there's that

 

[Joey66]

although they are both nobs, so there's that

I hated Shankly, but history tells me he was a great Manager unfortunately for us as in my childhood they were a division lower than us!
He changed all that unfortunately!

 

[Yorkie]

To mention Rodgers in the same thread as Shankly is to do Shankly a grievous disservice ..........

Sorry mate, I was just replying to someone who mentioned him. I didn't mean to lower the tone

 

[blueloon]

I was thinking recently how it takes a combination of history, money and a good manager to make a club great. In those days whenever we hit all three e.g. With Catterick and later Kendall we were one of the greats too. Some clubs history is defined by their great managers e.g. Busby/ Ferguson and the RS Shankly/Paisley. Others had the manager but not the other ingredients to be long term great like Leeds/Revie , Notts Forest Clough. I was musing that if Kegan hadn't gone into melt down, won the League and stayed at Newcastle for 10 years where they would be now with their fan base. Sadly money is the key ingredient these days and we'll never see the Shankly/ Catterick days again.

 

[Joey66]

I was thinking recently how it takes a combination of history, money and a good manager to make a club great. In those days whenever we hit all three e.g. With Catterick and later Kendall we were one of the greats too. Some clubs history is defined by their great managers e.g. Busby/ Ferguson and the RS Shankly/Paisley. Others had the manager but not the other ingredients to be long term great like Leeds/Revie , Notts Forest Clough. I was musing that if Kegan hadn't gone into melt down, won the League and stayed at Newcastle for 10 years where they would be now with their fan base. Sadly money is the key ingredient these days and we'll never see the Shankly/ Catterick days again.

The Money in the game , and players agents yes you are right a manager job is so harder now, the destiny of a team he is trying to build is dominated by Billionaires money - sadly nowadays you can pick the winners or the top three before a ball is kicked under the era of Shankly , and Catterick that was not the case most teams were virtually in with a chance as loyalty was there not film star wages!

 

[Bluebonic]

There is mate.

He also said some nice things about Dixie Dean as well.

I remember he said something like ' the great men in history, Shakespeare, da Vinci and Beethoven, Dixie belongs amongst them' I don't think I got the quote 100% accurate, but it was something like that! My dad knew him and always reckoned he was a p*ss taker, but there was no real malice toward Everton. He just thought what he had created was better than anything else around, and to be fair, for a good long while he was right!

 

[Boss_Blue]

I remember he said something like ' the great men in history, Shakespeare, da Vinci and Beethoven, Dixie belongs amongst them' I don't think I got the quote 100% accurate, but it was something like that! My dad knew him and always reckoned he was a p*ss taker, but there was no real malice toward Everton. He just thought what he had created was better than anything else around, and to be fair, for a good long while he was right!

Here you go mate:

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/liverpool-fc-legend-bill-shankly-3435313

At a dinner the day Dixie died:

‘Dixie was the greatest centre-forward there will ever be.

‘He belongs to the company of the supremely great, like Beethoven, Shakespeare and Rembrandt.'

 

[Bluebonic]

Here you go mate:

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/liverpool-fc-legend-bill-shankly-3435313

At a dinner the day Dixie died:

Cheers Boss!