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[J*o*n*D*o*e]

simply the greatest in my eyes. just listening to him talk and the passion he had you can only imagine how he made the players who played for the club feel.

[NANNY RED]

Cant wait for Wed night for his lads to be paraded on the pitch, I wonder how many of the great ones we will see , im sure im deffo gonna be in bits with a tear in me eye,

[redhayesy]

totally agree nan, it still gives me a shiver down my spine when i think of the day when i was privaliged to be stood on the kop for the 'kops last stand' game against norwich - when we sang shanks name, nessy's name, the past players some of which played under shanks an when some past players came onto the pitch before the kick off that day was an experience i shall never forget!

when nessy came onto the pitch with joe fagan, the whole ground especially the kop went histerical with appluse, singing etc - hopefully wed night will be as good an the team of today respond with a display an win for what the occasion deserves!

[Ben Patrick]

Just got in from the empire where i watched the bill shankly story.

It was great, there was a fella narrating with another fella coming out with quotes in his best glenbuck accent    with loads of stories coming from legends Ian Callaghan, Chris Lawler, Ian St John and big Ron Yeats.

The stories made me proud to be a red and made me wish i was around as a fan when the great man was our manager.
He really did take us from obscurity and laid the foundations of something so special.
The man was not only a footballing genius but by the quotes of every person that met him, just an amazing quick witted guy.
You get asked questions in my line of work sometimes in meetings like ice breakers 'who would you most like to meet past or present' ??
Easy that one isnt it, the man would leave me overawed without doubt.

Great show it was with Gerry Byrne and Peter Robinson part of the audience as well.

Love the saint me !!

[Kharhaz]

The Spirit of liverpool.

Click play on the video and listen to the great man himself. He oozed the club through every pore in his body. Never forgotten, and never walking alone.

[stmichael]

just listening to roy evans talking about shanks on talksport now. i'll put a link up later if it's on the website.

[Big Niall]

just listening to roy evans talking about shanks on talksport now. i'll put a link up later if it's on the website.

I still really like Roy Evans.

[Big Niall]

What do you have to do to be posthumously knighted. If ever a man desevers to be then Bill Shankly should be (Saying that so should Kenny Dalglish for what he brought to the game as a player and things he had had to cope with as amand and manager etc), but people like Alex Ferguson, Matt Busby & others have been honured and no matter that I am a Liverpool fan I do not mean it as a slur on them. But Shankly was something THE special one, a one off and as such deserves recognition, even now. And to do it to mark the 50th anniversary of the great man coming to Liverpool Football Club.

Do we organise a petition??? But lets do something

Would he have accepted one?

While he was a real old fashioned Brit (or maybe Scot), he was socialist and I always think socialists would have more likely to be republicans.

Anyway - cannot be done but few care.

I think Paisley was the greatest manager but Shankley built the club - I mean many of us know little about the club pre shankley.

[redhayesy]

please believe me mate, that shanks was an will always be the greatest manager of this football club.

bob paisley was an will always be remebered for taking this football club to even greater succes, i love the man to this day an will do to the day i die.

but bob being bob, in his gracious way has said more than once in interviews that shanks was the man that gave everything for the FC, an that is what made us the club we are today!

i will never compare the two in different ways- forge stats etc both men loved LFC with all their hearts an it is a lifetime complement to say that.

for me their was a magic tribute the day i stood on the kop for thr kops last stand- for the likes of shanks an paisley that will never be repeated at any club across the land- which is how it should be an will always be!