SHANKLY - Liverpool the rise.

natural enthusiasm that's the whole thing it's the greatest thing in the world natural enthusiasm you're nothing without it nothing now how can you communicate that to people well i think that if a manager is honest and he has this natural enthusiasm i think he was he can't go into the field with the players he could convey it to the press you understand he's with them and they will come and they'll be [Music] to reveal a characteristic red shirt this is a great day for him [Applause] [Music] and this great communion between players and supporters all one now on a great day in the history of liverpool football well i knew before i came here that the cop was the cop it's expanded and it's grown world famous since then but they've always made a noise in the cup because i remember we were playing hip-hop and there was a corner kick at the cop and then i said to the director and i said look do you hear this noise this crowd make see and of course they made those the liverpool were going to take the corner kick at the copy and the noise was fantastic you know and the this this is a great thing and then of course it went on and on and on until we get out we go to the doldrums and we get into the big league we won things and of course it went from strength to clue behind them when i strength up here [Music] [Applause] they dry about 6000 dishes you see and they and then the latrines but to clean them out well if i had a job to do even if it was scrubbing the floor i wanted my floor to be cleaner than yours now everybody thinks along these lines and there's all the small jobs to the best of their ability that's us honesty then the world will be better and football will be better so what we want is hard work and no football club was ever successful without hard work the greatest motivator i've met in my life he made you feel like you were the best player in the world made you and the team seem invincible he had a power of oratory that politicians would die for [Music] he was absolutely brilliant you know i don't think you'll get another man like him william shankly was born in the mining village of glenbach airship in 1913. life was hard but the environment shaped the man it was a hand-to-mouth existence but i think that really formed uh the great qualities of bill shankly because uh in that very harsh environment it forged this determination shankly began his playing career with party thistle before moving to carlisle in 1932. he made his name at preston winning the fa cup in 1938. today deep dale bears his image and at preston the seeds of shankly's management career were sown they had two tynesiders there on the staff and he said there were years ahead of the time in training methods and how they discussed tactics and um fitness and shanks use this in all his later career as a manager and he always puts it down to that those those days of preston when he he learned the backroom secrets shankly's playing career was disrupted by the second world war enlisting with the raf but seeing no frontline fighting shankly returned after the allies victory with his sights on management he learnt his trade with spells at carlisle and grimsby in 1955 he joined huddersfield town where he nurtured talent like future england world cup winner ray wilson and a scottish striker dennis law bill shankly was a mentor for me he was the one that sort of brought me into the game really and then showed me all the things that should be done as a player accepted so he was a tremendous influence in my uh life not only on the field but off the field as well shankly had suspicions the huddersfield board did not share his ambition luckily he was being watched liverpool went there one day and they were ripped apart by this huddersfield team huddersfield won five nil and the following year when liverpool went back there it was then that they offered shankly the job and tv williams the chairman of liverpool he said um bill how would you like to be manager of the best team in the country and shang says why as matt busby packed up he went to liverpool and made liverpool the team that you know they became he set the foundation there to become a team i'm just unfortunate he left huddersfield because i'm sure he'd have done exactly the same with huddersfield but he his his life as i say his life was football completely shankly faced a huge challenge and set about improving all aspects of the club within 18 months he'd released 24 players bringing through striker roger hunt and a young winger who would go on to break the record for the number of liverpool appearances 17 year old ian caligan you'd be messing around in the corridors you know some of the the younger lads and he'd come out of his office and you know straight away you know all right boss yeah and you'd stop what you were doing you know it was like a respecter um you know sort of a little bit scared of him really well i'm hard than people that need to be hard on for people who don't need to be hard on the very opposite so there's a balance as you see i mean now with the i think that the man needs a who's who's playing in front of the public is being well paid and he doesn't dedicate himself to the job i wouldn't i would i'd be hard on him if i could i'd put him in jail out the road a society because there's a menace in addition to promoting from within shankly was not afraid to spend the club's money ian john came in to partner hunt but arguably shankly's key signing was sent to half ron yates he said yes he says we're in the first division son he said then we're going to do well when we sign you and we've signed the instant john so i thought great you know continued and i thought just read in the paper that in the second division i says we are at the moment he says but when we sign you he says we'll be in the first division next season what can you say about that you know i spoke to the pros who were there before me and um and they sort of said training had um changed and uh you know they did everything with the ball since uh mr shankly arrived so you got the feeling that you know uh things were happening and you know things on the up promotion was secured with the second division title in 1962 and two years later liverpool won the league championship for the first time since 1947. he didn't realize it was going to be so quick you know how how quickly it was that you know they went from a second division team to you know league champions first missionary champions shankly had achieved more than many thought possible in a very short space of time but he had no doubt that liverpool could go on to be much bigger and better as long as everyone thought his way and pulled together for the liverpool cause if the club was improving in all areas shankly wanted more to intimidate the master of psychology made one very significant change in came the famous all red strip i was the dummy who had to try it on you know we're going to go into training and he said ron he said before we go to training i want you to put on a new kit it's in the it's in the dressing room so bloody hell i i really liked it and he went that's it he said we're going to play in all red he says you when you were running over there look like a colossus coming to order us that's it we're all in red bob get him back for training it was the start of liverpool's most successful period to date but shankly was desperate for more silverwork in 73 years liverpool had never won the fa cup in 1965 they faced leech united in the final i remember the build-up obviously you know the the clamor for tickets the beatles were were coming through and the football team was on the up and so it was just a fantastic place to be liverpool it was in the dressing room before the game shankly was as bullish as ever there's no way that leeds could beat us this was his duck you know for three days you know no way they can beat them they haven't got this side we have got this side you know and we win this you know and he was always confident roger hunt opened the scoring for liverpool three minutes into extra time the lead lasted only ten minutes before a mistake from yates led to billy bremner's equalizer but another of shankly's key signings would have the winner in sin john scoring with less than 10 minutes remaining liverpool one two one it was the first time the queen had gone to wembley to give out any cup so you know to be first to pick out from the queen it was a big moment for me there was a probably a bigger moment for liverpool football club there were 50 000 liverpudlians at wembley that day but no one was prouder than the scot bill shankly he was beside himself he was just because you see he'd done what no liverpool manager had ever done i couldn't believe the crowds in liverpool when we come back with it you know after the after the game it was just i i didn't think liverpool had that many uh people in it you know there were like out of windows having doors a lot when you think you'd only come a little more than five years earlier and there they were they've not only won the league championship now they've won the fa cup as well he'd taken them to europe it was just amazing the scenes of were astonishing but the season was far from over the european cup had never been won by a british team shankly was convinced liverpool could be the first the two-legged semi-final brought into milan to anfield [Music] probably the greatest night of my career at liverpool i think you know for atmosphere it's inter in the white shirts who kick off and feel so full the gates were opened at three o'clock that is four and a half hours before the kickoff and many parts of the standing accommodation were absolutely full before six o'clock strong here's number seven [Applause] great goal a great go by hunt [Applause] [Music] yes everyone back in defense [Music] saw liverpool run out comfortable 3-1 winners over the european champions in italy however it was a very different story shankly's suspicion of all things foreign began well before kickoff it was just like a war you know like the battle of the bulge we were in the center of it i've never known uh atmosphere like that you know it was like hatred it really was the first goal against this is an indirect ticket which you put his hand up for of course he chipped the ball into the net and he gave a goal [Music] what around fix the ball up he's going to get in the kicked it when he did that to bouncy kicked it out into the net but i was told before the game that he no matter what happened we wouldn't win if shankly loved competing in europe his priority never changed the main thing in our bread and butter is this and that's what we want to win all the time never mind europe i am in guardian europe it's been a great thing for liverpool great thing for the country but this is our bread and butter and this is the one that we want bill shankly who remembers bill shankly oh the dual score he was blowing up bill shankly let me give an example of one of his team talks they were so empowering the teams would win every single home game one week um he was the manager of liverpool liverpool playing uh leicester it's like okay lads today you're playing leicester city let's look at their team sheet say number one goalkeeper peter shelton is number two is shade three four five shade shade shade nineteen eleven shake shake shake now go out there and beat them and the team is so empowered they would win every single home game [Music] one week they're playing manchester united 1972. he said okay that's today you're playing manu let's look at that tip sheet number one goalkeeper alex stepney is shite number two david sadler is shite three four five shite strike shite number nine bobby charlton eyes a good player number 10 dennis law eye is a good player 11. george best eyes a good player but bugger me you could beat three players can ya bring them so shaq's decided we've got to fatten them up a bit you know give them some strength and really build them up so they had a meeting between the staff and they decided that they would get them to eat steaks because shanks was a great steak believer you know we at stakes for 10 years at liverpool because jewelry at stake seemingly and shaq's love joe louie a great thing from his boxing days so so shanks had a contact with a butcher and every week the kids would go down the abattoir get a big parcel of meat all these bullet steaks and he was eating steaks every day eating steaks and taking them home with his mother and she couldn't see so about six months later the kid knocked and shanks his door and come in son you know you looking better now john you know filling out son you know steak's doing you good you know sort of kid but yeah i said boss uh i'm getting married sex went you're getting married he said well i have to get married he said what do you mean he said well my girlfriend's pregnant society bob robin joe come in we've created a monster the following year the league was won again and only defeat in the final of the cup winners cup to borussia dortmund stopped liverpool from securing an unprecedented double the fans now regarded bill shankly as a god they'd go down to the cop go on to the field down to the comp right in front of the penalty area and go out you know i and i'll tell you why they loved them i loved them he was an iconic figure i mean he was uh he was idolized revered i headed a few at the cup end you know it was going into the net i thought chris will get there in there and this is this is true i mean a man a manager who's a manager and he's and his players are honest with the with him and he's honest with them he can transmit his thoughts to them and i'm certain i've headed some balls will get into the net i've kept them out yeah and i've scored a few goals as well so that will someday do something the 1966 league championship was liverpool's last trophy for seven years shankly stayed loyal to an aging group of players and the club paid the price it was only after the watford debacle when watford from the depths of the second division knocked them out of the fa cup that shankly realized this team had to be broken up but bob paisley reckoned he should really have been more ruthless and done it a bit earlier because the players were getting past their best finally shankly set about rebuilding house went the likes of yates hunt and sin john in came john toshack ray clements and a young liverpudlian 17 year old phil thompson you were in order to man absolutely you know but to meet him was was just as thrilling you know he did you just listen to that voice you know it was just something special about it you know signing for liverpool at the age of 15 apprenticeship until 17 you know that was just fantastic for me two years doing that i'd have died happy it wasn't about money it was about playing for liverpool football club and how much he knew about liverpool football club before we even sat down for a contract he he made sure he took me around everywhere around anfield took me down to the training ground showed me the training facilities just to impress on me how good this football club was and how great it could be it was ready to become a powerhouse because shanks had everybody believing in it shanks was one of those characters to the press and everybody else that he was making and he was drumming it into pressman how good we were we went to the 71 cup final in in the first first instance that was the first sight of glory who'd had with the news with the new side but probably it was just a little bit early for us um we had a lot of young players in there who shanks has brought in to make his new team as such and um but we gained confidence from actually being a young team and getting to that cup final and he just built from there after losing the fa cup final to arsenal shankly stood on the steps of saint george's hall with this incredible crowd he said yesterday we lost a battle but we did not lose the war since i come here to liverpool are to anfield [Applause] i have drummed it into our players time and again that they are privileged to play for you and if they didn't believe me they believe me now peter robinson who was a very obey and efficient um general secretary of liverpool said if he had told them at that moment to storm through the mersey tunnel and sack birkenhead they'd have done it he had them utterly under his command and control they would have done anything natural enthusiasm that's the whole thing it's the greatest thing in the world natural enthusiasm you're nothing without it shankly's new team needed a start and kevin keegan from scumthorpe fitted the mould keegan's partnership with toshack flourished as did the style of play having just missed out on the league title in 1972 the following year saw the trophy return to anfield for the first time in seven years he said the dutch gave token football you know to the world i think the liverpool fc certainly we did at that time we used to be passing it at the ball about nobody could get a kick 73 was just the start of an era that you know turn trophy after trophy after trophy and you know once you start winning it's a lovely feeling and you get used to it last saturday was the greatest of all of them winning it early on was a novelty the last saturday because it was a new team and they had worked so hard for so long and got picked last season and pipped the season before in the cup final they were gone again for the third time with far more satisfaction and definitely the greatest moment i had in football it was the beginning of one of the longest periods of success ever seen in english football europe was yet to be conquered but in 1973 liverpool faced borussia monchengladbach in the uefa cup final anfield reveled in one of its greatest european nights he won the game quite comfortably three nil and um but having said that we're probably about 15 minutes to go something like that stevie highway came back to defend but he pulled down one of the brushing luncheon gladback players and uh obviously a penalty was given yet behind kiss the german striker took it and i managed to save it that penalty save proved crucial liverpool fell behind at two-nil in the second leg but the reds held on and bill shankly had achieved his dream to become the first liverpool manager to win a european trophy he wasn't a champagne drink or anything like that he stood in the in the dressing room with his cup of tea and said well done to everybody and that's the way it was a year later liverpool were back at wembley for shankly's third fa cup final standing in their way were newcastle united and their danger man striker malcolm mcdonald malcolm macdonald the newcastle centre forward was in the papers virtually every day saying what he was going to do and what newcastle were going to do to us he was shouting the odds of how what he was going to do and how he was going to sort of uh tail liverpool apart particularly edmond hughes and phil thompson of course shanks team talk beforehand is i don't really need to speak you've seen the papers let's just go out and prove them wrong and we put on the most complete fa cup cup file performance for many years [Applause] two goals from keegan and one from steve highway meant a comprehensive three-nil win for liverpool and another wembley fairy tale shankly had now won three league titles two fa cups and a uefa cup he had also built a young hungry team desperate for success the future looked bright for liverpool but just two months after that wembley triumph the club was rocked to its very core it's with great regret that mr shankly has intimated that he wishes to retire from active participation in league football how do you feel about the news today who's the champion he's retired about it yeah you know kidding he's not i'm not kidding you shankly has actually retired today he wants a rest he's leaving he's leaving he's afforded a retire as well yeah i'm definitely serious he's he wants a rest he's getting out of the game yeah oh yeah he's not sick no he says he he says he's gets very tired the pressures are great he wants to rest well that's just not enough paper 12 o'clock on the wall at 12 o'clock i've just been at a press conference where he announces where he was finishing this is that it's true i swear it's true honestly i'm not joking [Music] wanted you to try today retired he's finished today you said he said he just announced it at the lunchtime today and the board were with him bill shackleton's retired what did what did shankly mean to you everything and how difficult a decision was it to make or the most difficult decision ever made to leave to decide to leave the club eventually i mean possibly it was like going to the electric chair [Music] ah [Music] ah that was a supreme save like [Applause] [Applause] russia cho is dead 78 the man who took his place is 71. and the chinese only start with somebody and the people when they when they get their certain age here oh they should retire what a word haven't retired now retired from anfield yet for football and from life now

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