This Is Your Life - Bob Paisley

[Music] this is your life and through the back emergency door I've been smuggled on board this coach heading through London's traffic for Houston Station carrying on board Europe's Champion football team I've temporarily joined a camera crew shooting a documentary on them for German television the man who led them to glory is up front there little knowing what's going on behind and with the help of his famous team and by the way he's a minor son who is a great great story but with the help of his famous team I'm hoping that my timing will get me to my goal in the next few seconds literally so here goes [Music] do you want it hello Bob [Applause] Liverpool tonight this is your life [Applause] I thought I thought it was cute outside the boat well with your permission the driver here is gonna pull in before he gets to Houston Station just a few yards along here outside Tim's Television Studios here on the Houston Road and a lot more surprises there for you okay [Music] [Applause] [Music] all right [Applause] thank you [Applause] thank you very much and thank you very much team and chairman John and everyone else because Bob Paisley minor son from County Durham this is your life and what a memorable year this has been in that life for the second time in succession you've been voted Football manager of the year a unique achievement in itself for the second time in succession you led Liverpool Football Club to the league championship and imagine the queen awarded you the Obe in recognition of your taking Liverpool on in this Jubilee year to win The Greatest Prize in club football the European Cup and this Bob is how your great team went into the history books on May 25th and the final against Borussia much and glad back in Rome [Music] [Applause] well Bob that was a great moment when Tommy Smith Taylor went in wasn't it terrific terrific Tommy I know you were particularly delighted for Bob when that great goal went in weren't you yeah that's true I mean yeah very good yeah he actually said good for Corners in that you know he's probably using his head for once instead of his football ability and Bob the first person to greet you at Liverpool airport when you returned after that historic match you thought was in Liverpool tonight but she's not she's right here your wife Jesse [Music] and [Applause] son Graham with his wife Sandy and with her husband her husband Simon your daughter Christine [Music] [Applause] and Jesse tell me what was it Bob said to you before he set out for Rome well he said he was looking forward to the trip because the last time he'd been there was when he was stationed there during the war and he'd been in a tank that time and Robert you and Graham were at the match aren't you that's what I say amen after the match dad wished he still had that thing to take him through the crowds he wanted to slap him on the back although Bob someone who was an integral part of the that greatest achievement in your career is missing tonight because he has to be in Germany where of course he now plays for Hamburg but he greets you now former England Captain Kevin Keegan hello boss Eamonn and all the lads it's a pleasure to be talking to you tonight although I can't be there because I've got a game I can never forget the first day you took the job at anfield when you gathered all the lads into the um dressing room down at Melwood and you stood there and we're all wondering just what sort of reaction you would uh have to get in the job and uh we wonder how he was going to talk because she'd always been quiet under shanks and you stood there with your back to the wall and you said first thing first word you ever said I'll never forget you said I didn't want the job anyway and uh we thought oh no you know what's gonna happen here but you've gone on from there you've not only took the job but you've took it and done a marvelous job you've been manager of the Year twice which you deserved you've won a lot of respect from a lot of people in the game especially the players who play on you like myself I hope you pull the treble off because quite honestly I don't think there's a team in this country that can touch you and then you get voted manager there again and complete a great hat trick and all the best boss and me and my wife love a drink over here in Germany with you I'll feed the same um which in case you don't know in Germany means something like okay foreign [Applause] on January 23 1919 on the Durham mining Village of Hatton Lee Hall your late father is on shift work of the cold face and one Sunday afternoon when you were a boy he's in bed catching up on asleep after the night shift when he's awakened by a rumpus downstairs and Bob that day you'll really thought your time was up from their home and Heavenly hold your younger brother Huey and his wife Mary [Applause] [Music] so Huey tell us what happened that afternoon well Raymond you know what brothers are they'd like to be a bit scrub you know well this Sunday afternoon it just went a little bit too far oh yeah we're sitting by the Fireside and uh I was walking by old bourbon on the bottom and more nuggets done that they just you know whatever have a try to be a chummy which I've never been in language will you be crying your father's in bed why did Bob think his time was up the hell did your mom come down with the alarm clock foreign [Laughter] 1924 you go to Barrington School and one day in class when you're just eight years old you're nearly frighten the life out of your teacher remember Bob she thought you murdered me recalling that day 50 years ago your Schoolboy pal Tom hope [Applause] [Applause] [Laughter] well Tom tell me how is Bob supposed to have murdered you had a toy knife Yemen and what happened here was you know it was a trick knife whereby the blade itself when pushed against anything it went into the handle it pretended to stop me with this and when the blade we need to my body she was astounded she thought you'd murdered me bro and after that thank you Tom hope you're at school but even on those days Bob you take your football very seriously Bob even made a training exercise out a visit to the fish and chip shop he was a teammate with Hatton Juniors and you haven't seen him for 30 years Ned blanken's up [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] training exercise out of a visit to a fish and chip shop how did he do that man well whenever we made a trip for the fish and chip shop or the cinema above which set offered a cracking piece and sometimes time is clock to clock he was a real healing tool man it's the key to win the 50 Gypsy was to win the European company thank you Ned blank himself [Applause] oh Bob you go on to win a Durham County Schoolboy soccer cap at the age of 14 at 18 you joined the famous amateur soccer club Bishop Auckland which you have to make a living and for nine months you're a surface worker ahead and lions calorie but your father who'd been injured at the cold face urged you to leave the colary and take a job as a bricklayer you're taken on by a builder and become great Pals with his son who drives the Lorry to the building sites and I haven't seen him for 30 years but back in hetton where he's a Monumental Mason he tells us about a certain Monument you left him your opal Alvin Wade hello Bob and congratulations these days on your 10 million but back in the late that is your job was billing of a different sort you had a hand in constructing some Grand buildings in this part of the world and here at my workshop I'm the proud possessor of one of them now you're flush with success I should ask the local Council to put up one of those special plaques saying this building was erected by Bob Paisley Obe manager of the European coupling team 1977 oh Bob we couldn't have put up your buildings without someone else who is here with me now George Walker [Music] foreign [Applause] did some good jobs can you remember working at Kelly's Farm but we had no suspicious about the certain Henley and nowhere Kelly was watching us we were watching Kelly and somebody nipped around and got the egg and we we had an idea what it was and usually would set the May on the Lorry as he got on the Lorry going on this lad that yeah I thought it was only hot so he gently topped him on the head as he got on the Lorry and that it was there grew up running down his face you were right Bob and he's right here George Walker and your old pal you haven't seen for 30 years power went away [Applause] [Music] [Applause] you remember doing that to the egg do you oh yeah there was two eggs [Laughter] brick legs are in the week but Saturday see you building your soccer career with Bishop Auckland and in 1939 the team becomes the first in the country to win in the same season the northern League Cup the Durham challenge cup and here at Sunderland Bishop auckland's greatest Triumph that year victory in the amateur Cup Final with a three nil extra time win over Willington and immediately after that Matthew signed for Liverpool there you play left half to one of the all-time great Scottish International left-wingers and strike up a lifelong friendship with him you shared many a Triumph at anfield but the day he'll never forget had little to do with football no it was when Bob decided to lend a hand in cleaning the boss's car today of a car to the Liverpool University students union your great friend on and off the field Billy little [Music] really what was Bob up to uh car cleaning then just after the war we had a commissioned Air at anfield name of Paddy Walsh and uh he used to always clean the manager's car and this particular day he'd done a great job it was usually Immaculate the car when he'd done and it was in the process of finishing the car off and he went to get a a new bucket of water and Bob niptan opened the car doors wind down the window and Paddy came along none thinking right right in through the car and all over the car but I must add that it wasn't like that on the field he was a great worker uh characteristics were tenosity and determination on these characteristics are what have made him the Supreme manager of Europe thank you foreign [Applause] 1939 you began an association with Liverpool Football Club which has so far lasted 38 years something of a record in the Mercurial world of top-class professional football now we went to Liverpool this week to find out what the fans there think of a career that has covered player trainer assistant manager now European Cup winning manager when I saw these East magic let's face it the balance of the year I'd say yeah well it's a good manager because he's got something over the place [Music] he's done very good he's won two cups he's got them working the way he wants them to wear them on the fields he took over a good a big job and he's done great ever since and Tottenham has taken us through last year he's smashing there's no delay well I think he's installed the team spirit kept it going and uh best team in Europe [Music] yeah well I mean look at you think of them I thought you might recognize that particular Liverpool fan but he's not in Liverpool tonight he's here the legendary manager who succeeded her good friend Bill Shank [Applause] wow you and Bob here have had a 15-year Association did you ever row no we never had any arrows within a temporary alone would have got the plan where we're going to keep all the cups we won Bob was a dedicated a loyal man efficient as well and he was like me he wanted to win things and this is the spirit we they presented there Liverpool Football Club the only arguments we had when we lost the wall of either side but thank you foreign [Applause] just got underway when you have to swap the famous old red uniform of anfield for this the uniform of the royal artillery for four years you serve abroad Egypt Italy and the Western desert One Day in 1942 you're serving with the 73rd medium artillery regiment in North Africa you and your comrades are in a front-line Dugout position that been a lull in the action but that day an anime fighter suddenly appears Over the Horizon and swoops on The Dugout in a surprise attack spraying bullets and a few seconds later I thought Bob Paisley would never see again the officer was next to you in that desert Dugout that day you haven't seen it for 30 years but we found him Captain Norman Whitehouse [Applause] [Music] so Captain Whitehouse tell us what happened well the plane came over and sprayed the dug out with explosive bullets and um when it was gone uh probably lands over his eyes saying I can't see him blind so we took him off to the mo as quick as we could and that Bobby remember they came back 24 hours later with dark spectacles and he was all right it was marvelous I know all your army mates were relieved to hear that good news especially three close Pals from those Middle East days 35 years ago X Sergeant Joe bait gonna hers Jack Moffett shot my friend oh 1945 and the war in the Middle East over you're back in Britain stationed at Woolwich Arsenal and the Army gave you permission to play for Liverpool at weekends you travel North on Friday evenings and return Saturdays after the match and one of those trips led to a very memorable match Jesse isn't that so that's right I was going to London to visit a friend there and we were going on the midnight train I got in the train put my sandwiches on the seat beside me and this young Soldier came into my compartments through his great coat right on top of them and I said what do you think you're doing kind of thing and so he apologized as more than he does sometimes nowadays and shall we chatted all the way and we continued chatting all through the next day and then we met again in Liverpool and and that was it 31 years ago and so if we hadn't come into my compartment and he hadn't thrown his great coat on my sandwiches well I might not be Mrs Paisley for this day you met again in Liverpool in the following year Bob when you resumed your career with the club you married Jesse on July 17 1946 at All Souls Church Springwood Liverpool and as we've heard Liverpool becomes your adoptive City but there's another part of the country close to your heart a picturesque little market town in North Yorkshire Morten where you've been going every year for 15 years to stay at the home of a racehorse trainer pal but this year alas was for last year because that great pal of yours has now gone to live and what Hong Kong he's not sent me money back when he's done better than that we've sent himself back we've flown him those 8 000 miles from Hong Kong Frank's Carr foreign [Music] [Applause] country man's trick so Bob stood back while I poured the petrol over the the long grass and I dropped the match in it I said about it this cuts out all the hard work but I'd made the pattern in a sack I said what I'm gonna do if I was in the middle he didn't have the last laugh I got him riding a racehorse one time and well as a jockey they make a great football manager thank you Frank Cara well before we close Bob and as you celebrate the greatest year in the history of Liverpool Football Club I want to take you back to your first day at the famous anfield grounds 38 years ago you Bob the Royal recruit to professional football were introduced to Liverpool's team captain who can't be here tonight because of football commitments but who nevertheless talks to you from his home in Manchester of course that Liverpool Skipper who went on to become Manchester United's sir Matt Busby hello amen hello Bob you know Bob I knew you first of all as a very dedicated player one who always put his club before himself and they didn't surprise me at all when you took over the helm at Liverpool Football Club that you took this great Club to The Greatest Prize in football aim and one might get the wrong impression that Bob is a very quiet person yes I would agree with that but he has this inner Steel to motivate his players to Great Heights and this is a great thing in his favor regarding football he is prepared to give everyone else the limelights rather than his personal than himself and this is a very rare thing these days congratulations Bob thank you so much travel upgrade tribute from one of the game's all-time greats we end your story except to remind you Bob of a season way back in 1939 that I know lives in your memory you're a member of this great amateur team Bishop Auckland which went into the history books by winning those three trophies that year and now Bob for the first time in 38 years we've got your old Bishop Auckland teammates together again for you former Captain Carl straw [Applause] ready one look Bob Hardesty [Applause] and Laurie wensley [Music] the box since those days in Bishop Auckland your story for nearly 40 years has been the story of Liverpool Football Club Now proud champions of Europe Hamlin Hughes captain of England you're also captain of that team a final word from you well I think really that everyone that's come on here tonight is as somebody to help I mean he's he's a person that is absolutely and utterly dedicated to Liverpool Football Club and when Shanks finished it was by the director's discretion that uh they offered the job to Bob and really it was impossible to offer it to anybody else and to come along and emulate Shanks and then even go on and win more trophies and go on and do as as well as you've done I think now that everybody in the club including the fans appreciate Bob Paisley thank you [Applause] earlier finds himself said that you are the greatest in the right and throughout your tremendous success in English and European football play the fans have always inspired you and your team like this [Applause] [Music] [Music] as their song says Bob You'll Never Walk Alone Bob Paisley Obe football manager of Jubilee year this is your life [Applause] oh [Applause] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music]

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Keywords: Bob Paisley, Liverpool FC, This is your life, Bill Shankly, Emlyn Hughes, Kevin Keegan

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Length: 26min 1sec (1561 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 12 2016