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Post by adycrean on Jan 8, 2015 20:14:15 GMT
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Post by auldreekie on Jan 8, 2015 22:11:30 GMT
Thanks Ady I had not heard that. I know I am biased but it is difficult to think of another FA Cup giant killing act that changed the course of football history. It is worth remembering that:
1) although in the Second Division, Liverpool were a big club just going through a poor spell. So giants were indeed killed!
2) Had Liverpool beaten City in the 3rd Round and then gone out to fellow Second Division side Sheffield United in the 4th Round while finishing 4th in the Division - as they did - would Bill Shankly have arrived at Anfield?
3) Liverpool had tried to sign Shanks as their manager about 9 years before but he would not sign unless he could pick the team.They wouldn't and he did not sign. When he arrived at Anfield in December 1959 after their visit to the Lane he was given full control!
4) in Shanks' first match in charge at Liverpool they were beaten at home by Cardiff City managed by former City boss Bill Jones.
So I think City can rightly claim to have changed the course of football history.
On Saturday on returning from a match I took a short detour to visit the Shankly memorial near the site of the former mining village of Glenbuck, Shanks' birthplace. In a very remote site but clearly often visited by Reds fans as evidenced by Liverpool scarves, etc. Sadly the village has been swallowed up in an open cast coal mine but not before - with a population of never more than 1,300 - producing 50 professional footballers, 5 Scottish Internationals and 3 FA Cup winners.
Our job is to keep on reminding Liverpool fans of the part City played in making a big club a great club.
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Post by cloud on Jan 13, 2015 12:53:06 GMT
...& Geoff Twentyman (who scored the Liverpool goal) would play a major role in their future success by eventually being their chief scout - discovering most of their best talent (like Ian Rush, Phil Neal, Alan Hansen). Did the role for 21 years for Bob Paisley, Joe Fagan and Kenny Dalglish, finally leaving in 1986. (He went on to become chief scout for Rangers under Graeme Souness).
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