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The desk Bill Shankly sat at to write out a furious resignation letter in 1964 is to go under the
auctioneer's hammer in Liverpool.
The roll-top desk is included in a bundle of artefacts that will be sold by Cato Crane next
week.
It comes from a collection gathered together by former player, coach and club stalwart Tom Bush,
who spent 37 years at Anfield.
Good Bob Paisley was laid to rest in his parish churchyard yesterday as Liverpool supporters
respected his family's request for privacy, and there were fewer than 100 gathered outside when the
simple coffin, adorned with red and white roses, was carried into St Peter's, Woolton. There will
be a more acclaiming memorial service in the city in the spring.
It is impossible to call him anything other than a legend. To this day Phil Neal remains the only
Englishman to have won four European Cups and did so at a time when the competition's name was
truly honoured as only a country's champions could compete in Europe's premier competition. Indeed
Neal won the English title eight times which, along with four League Cup wins a UEFA Cup triumph,
make him one of the most successful players of any era.
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OLLIE IN JOB MARKET - By Ross Heppenstall, PA Sport
Ian Holloway is itching for a return to football management after being sacked for taking Leicester
into Coca-Cola League One last season.
Holloway, 45, gambled his career by controversially walking out on Plymouth for the Walkers Stadium
last November.
The lifelong Red has spent the last year researching and writing a book on the subject.
The Asian Liverbird, which was commissioned by the club after an approach by Bhana, explores how
immigrants from Asia came to choose LFC upon arriving in England in the Sixties and Seventies
– and why, generations later, their children and grandchildren are still wearing red.
Matt Monaghan looks at the history of this most heated of English rivalries, the 'North West Derby'
between the Reds of Liverpool and the Red Devils of Manchester United.
For all those who believe that the passion and high emotion that made football great in the past
has been callously removed from the modern game by the unscrupulous corporate giants that have
bought in to the sport, this Saturday's encounter between Liverpool and Manchester United should
act as an example of how bitter local rivalries still circumvent the more sedate environment of
today.
Liverpool's refusal to donate their share of Sunday's FA CUP gate receipts to ailing Luton Town is
a disgraceful betrayal of the values and philosophy instilled in the club by the late, great Bill
Shankly.
The gravity of Luton's situation cannot be understated: They are in administration, losing
₤400,000 a month, are unable to pay their staff and are on the verge of folding.
Poor old Kevin Keegan! With his Newcastle United side desperate to claw itself out of relegation
trouble, the former Liverpool idol has been reminiscing about the great Bill Shankly. Kevin Keegan
says: I feel blessed to have worked under people like Bill Shankly and Bob Paisley. My positive
outlook stemmed from working with Shanks.
Some nuts think the world will be no more in 2012 (hopefully after the Olympics is over), but for
English football's traditions the end is nigh once more after Tuesday.
The shock-horror arrival of Arab billions at Manchester City, followed by their first trophy,
Robinho, was mirrored by two old-style English managers, Alan Curbishley and Kevin Keegan, exiting
stage left.
Mark Hughes may like to think that his Manchester City side's clash with Chelsea later on Saturday
takes star billing in this weekend's Premier League fixture list, but some 45,000 fans inside
Anfield - plus, no doubt, a global TV audience of millions - will beg to differ when Liverpool and
Manchester United lock horns again in a lunch-time showdown that will inevitably offer clues about
this season‘s title race.
"It's just a game. Twenty-two stupid men chasing a ball around a pitch." We've all heard
it said. In fact, when our team have lost a game we have even been known to say it ourselves.
Usually after the fourth or fifth pint. Bill Shankly once famously said that football was more
important than life and [.
For most fans, Saturday 16th August means the start of the new season with the visit to Sunderland
being penciled into most diaries ever since the draw was made last June. A group of supporters will
however be making the trip to the North East for a completely different. Having worked for the past
nine months on the project of building a memorial for the great Bob Paisley at his birth-place of
Hetton-le-Hole, next Saturday is when they will be going there to officially unveil this memorial.
With Saturday's clash with Manchester United edging closer, one legendary former Reds striker today
pinpointed our new hit-man as the potential key player against the Champions.
Robbie Keane has yet to find the net since joining the club in the summer transfer window from
Tottenham Hotspur, but Ian St John is hoping he will be on fire against the League champions.
