Bill Shankly Quotes

“Once at the ground, the players would make for the dressing room and, at 2.45 pm prompt, Shankly would climb up into the announcer’s box where he would address the crowd over the tannoy. Instead of writing a column in the programme as some managers did, he decided to speak to the fans personally, explaining why he’d changed the team, and talking about the way they had played in previous games. It proved popular and, of all the innovations that are remembered from his days at Carlisle, it is this one in”
― Stephen F. Kelly, Bill Shankly