Bob Paisley was at Liverpool football club as a player, physiotherapist and then Assistant Manager to the great Bill Shankly for 35 years, before taking over as manager of the club in 1974. Bob Paisley - Liverpool Legend Bob was born in Hetton-le-Hole and played for Bishop Auckland before joining Liverpool in 1939 as a 20 year-old [.

Seguimos repasando en Retrofootball los grandes equipos de la historia del fútbol europeo; especialmente de la Copa de Europa (sí, la Champions). Hoy nos detenemos en el Liverpool. Concretamente en el Liverpool de mediados de los años 70 a mediados de los años 80.

Merseyside footballing legends Bill Shankly and Ray Wilson really did leave their mark – scribbling their cheeky signatures on the wall of a home.
Everton FA Cup hero Wilson, 75, was handed the same football club-owned house in Huddersfield Shanks vacated when his managerial career moved on in the 1950s.

Kevin Keegan labelled Bill Shankly his "inspiration" after being presented with the award that commemorated the legendary manager's legacy.
Given a magnificent ovation by a capacity crowd in the Crowne Plaza as he made his way onto the stage, it was clear a poignant night for one of Liverpool's greatest players.

When Jamie Carragher made his Liverpool debut more than 13 years ago, he could only dream of one day being spoken of in the same breath as Alan Hansen.
As two very different defenders, it is unfair to compare them.
What is clear, though, is that they've both produced the quality required to join an elite band of players who can say they've played over 600 times for Liverpool.

A sign of things to come...?
Eight Iconic Managers And Their Record After Ten Games Played
1. Jose Mourinho at Chelsea: W8 D2 L0
2. Bill Shankly at Liverpool: W6 D1 L3
3. Bobby Robson at Ipswich Town: W5 D4 L1
4. Arsene Wenger at Arsenal: W5 D3 L2
5. Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United: W4 D3 L3
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Just watched The Damned United for the second time this weekend - an excellent movie I first saw last fall - and couldn't help but take in some of the great quotes by the brilliant Brian Clough: "If God had meant football to be played in the air he would have put grass on the sky."
So, with about 10 days and 18 hours remaining until the World Cup kicks off, I figured now was as good a time as any to compile a list of some of my favorite football quotes.

By Oliver Sparrow, writing from London

With this hard-fought 1-0 victory, Roy Hodgson became the first Liverpool manager since Bill Shankly in 1964/5 to win his first three European games in charge of the Merseyside club.

Hodgson, having previously stated that his focus this year was on the Premier League, sent out a weakened squad at Anfield.

He started with a squad that he led to win Champions League and after spending £300million took them down to the lowly depths of 7th place. the man I'm talking about is of course rafael Benitez, more affectionately known as the Fat Spanish Waiter.

You would expect that Liverpool fans would be glad to see the back of the man that led them to their lowest league finish since 1999, but strangely that isn't the case for many.

In news that will bring a superior smirk to the faces of many a United fan, news has emerged that, after six months in the job, Rafael Benitez has been sacked by Inter Milan, the same Inter Milan...
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"I think he is one of these people who is a voyeur. He likes to watch other people. There are some guys who, when they are at home, they have a big telescope to see what happens in other families."
Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho opened a war of words with Arsene Wenger, claiming the Arsenal boss was obsessed with Chelsea.

Rafael Benitez has pledged to fight on as Liverpool manager despite a disastrous season to date, drawing parallels between his current plight and a trophy drought suffered by Anfield great Bill Shankly.
Benitez is under real pressure following an FA Cup exit at the hands of Reading in midweek as the Reds are only realistically challenging for the Europa League having been knocked out of three cup competitions and slipped off the pace in the Premier League.

Oh God. Just when you thought governing bodies in football couldn't get more stupid, the Togo national team has been banned for the next two Africa Cup of Nations by the Confederation of African Football (CAF). Their crime? To walk away from the current tournament because three of their party had been brutally murdered and others remain in intensive care after the attack on the team bus just as the tournament opened.

There are a few things one could get to with wordplay.

The Palindrome for Bolton is "Not Lob". Everton on the other hand means a club Liverpool should lose "Never to".

That wasn't Zonal marking, by the way

The Merseyside Derby has always been the most raw-hate filled, blood boiled, fiercely contested amongst football derbies.

This is not a happy time for Liverpool FC. On the pitch the team is struggling, off it there's the ever looming shadow of financial melt-down. Yet there's one area where the club remains as strong as ever: the support of its fans. That much was on evidence in the trip at Wigan when the away section was full and kept on singing despite the lack of character that those wearing red on the pitch were showing.

Theo Walcott's introduction to the fray switched Arsenal's flow to the dynamic and the direct to give the Gunners hope in the second leg at the Nou Camp.
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Barely twenty minutes had registered on the clock but those watching the game were in unified agreement that already, they were witnessing something spectacular.

Bill Shankly made the people happy. It goes without saying, Tom Hicks and George Gillett haven't.
There was a significance when one of Shankly's grandaughters joined a recent campaign to oust Liverpool Football Club's (now outgoing) owners.
In an e-mail sent directly to the movers and shakers involved in the club's current financial plight, Karen Gill made an impassioned plea to the Royal Bank of Scotland to stop bankrolling the Americans' debt-laden tenure at the club.

There seem to be some wondering whether Liverpool would prefer losing to Chelsea, thus denying Manchester United the opportunity of winning their nineteenth title, instead of winning to ensure qualification to Europe next season. They really should be saving themselves the trouble.
Even though it hasn't seemed like it of late, success for Liverpool means winning things not delighting in seeing others not doing so.

"O socialismo em que acredito não tem nada a ver com política. É um modo de vida. É uma questão de humanidade. Acredito que a única maneira de se viver e ter sucesso é através do esforço colectivo, com todos trabalhando por todos, todo mundo se ajudando e cada um colhendo a sua parte da recompensa no final.

Por Halftown
Los mentideros del planeta fútbol llevaban semanas hablando de ello. Las propias aficiones laziale y red lo pedían. Los jugadores dudaban. Y alguno se resistía a creerlo.
Pero llegó el domingo, concretamente el minuto 33 en Anfield Road, y las dudas se disiparon: Steve Gerrard, hijo de Melwood, heredero de Dalglish, héroe de The Kop y capitán del Liverpool, metió un pase entre sus propios centrales para que Drogba pusiese la bola entre los palos de Reina y tres cuartos de liga en Londres.

Greame Souness last night revealed he fears for the future of his beloved Liverpool in the aftermath of the Rafa Benitez era.
Hardman Souey, who won five league ­titles, three European Cups and four League Cups in his seven-year stay at Anfield, reckons the decisions Liverpool make in the next three months may well define their next 25 years.

The consensus at the moment seems to be that Aston Villa's Emile Heskey will partner Wayne Rooney in attack against the US.
Intriguingly, Heskey will have the number 21 on his back. Another famous forward once wore the very same number for England during our one and, so far, only successful tournament.

Alan Hansen is a Liverpool great and an eloquent TV pundit who often provides the voice of reason.
However, his declaration that the new Reds manager will find himself stuck with a squad inferior to the one Rafa Benitez inherited six years ago just doesn't stack up.
"The painful truth for Liverpool and their supporters is that the new manager at Anfield, whoever he turns out to be, will find a worse squad at his disposal than that which Benitez inherited from Gerard Houllier in 2004," Hansen said.

Roy Hodgson will head out to the World Cup this week still waiting to hear whether he is going to be offered one of the biggest jobs in English football and become Liverpool boss.
The Fulham manager has made it clear to the Anfield hierarchy that he wants his future sorted out before he begins a stint as a pundit in South Africa.

Hundreds of Liverpool FC fans are expected to attend a rally outside St George's Hall in protest against the club's American owners.
A line-up of politicians, ex-Reds footballers and musicians have been assembled to speak on July 4, an event billed as "Our Independence Day".
And the day will signal the launch of a new supporter ownership scheme as part of a bid to wrestle control of Anfield back from reviled Liverpool bosses Tom Hicks and George Gillett.

The decade had begun with Liverpool as champions. It was, admittedly, an ageing side but for the previous two decades Liverpool had carried out such transitions silently with new players being brought slowly in. And it would have been the same this time round as well if Graeme Souness had been of a more patient nature.

Former Liverpool hero John Aldridge has backed incoming manager Roy Hodgson to use all his experience to complete the "massive job" of turning his new club around.
Hodgson, 62, is expected to be named as the club's new supremo this week after Rafael Benitez left by mutual consent earlier in the summer.

Former Liverpool and Republic of Ireland striker John Aldridge admits that Roy Hodgson faces a difficult task in turning around the fortunes of the Anfield outfit. Hodgson is set to take over the reins of Liverpool during one of the most chaotic times in the club's history as they are not competing in the Champions League, they are in a financial mess, and their ownership situation remains unclear.

After a great season with Fulham last season, which saw them reach the Europa Cup Final, England's Special One Roy Hodgson has proven a worthy of a chance at a high-profile club like Liverpool. But don't expect him to perform miracles overnight at Anfield with the player's he has inherited from former manager Rafa Benitez it will take time to get rid of the dead wood.

First impressions last. It might be one of life's oldest, most-used maxims but, time and again, it rings so true.
Take the foyer of Liverpool's state-of-the-art training facility at Melwood. Ask anyone who has stepped through the doors for the first time in the past 12 months what their abiding memory is.

Roy Hodgson has stressed the importance of team unity to our hopes of success in 2010-11.
The tactician claims he wants to instill the same mentality into his Liverpool side that was present when Bill Shankly and Bob Paisley were at the helm.
He told LFC Weekly: "It would be foolish of anyone to dismiss the importance of team spirit.

Alex Raisbeck, Billy Liddell, Matt Busby, Bill Shankly, Tommy Lawrence, Ian St John, Ron Yeats, Kenny Dalglish, Graeme Souness, Alan Hansen, Steve Nicol.
When trawling through the annals of Liverpool Football Club and its unique history, it is hard to avoid the incredible influence Scotsmen have had on the club.

Manager Roy Hodgson has hinted that Liverpool are unlikely to mount a Premier League title challenge this season.
Hodgson, who left Fulham last month to succeed Rafa Benitez at Anfield, told reporters on Friday his team could not yet match champions Chelsea, Manchester United or Arsenal, the perennial front-running trio.

It may be nearly 40 years since Bill Shankly declared the domestic league campaign as Liverpool FC's "bread and butter", but the maxim remains true to this day.
Just ask Roy Hodgson. The circumstances may be somewhat different – Shankly's comments came in the wake of a championship and UEFA Cup double – but it is with one eye firmly on the Premier League that the Anfield manager approaches tonight's Europa League qualifying play-off first leg against Turkish cup winners Trabzonspor.

By Ollie Irish

If he was still with us, the great Bill Shankly would be 97 years old today, and no doubt still an avid fan of the beautiful game, and particularly his beloved Liverpool. So happy birthday Shanks he passed away in September 1981, but he'll never be forgotten, not at Anfield anyway.

An article from passionate Liverpool supporter Rohan Kalli... You can also follow Rohan on Twitter @rohan_kalli and see other posts of his on his blog at http://www.hetoreahamstring.me.uk

Liverpool Football Club are, in the opinion of many observers, a club in crisis. A footballing institution driven into financial ruin by two American owners, a giant of British football reduced to seventh place in the Premier League last season.

On this day, September 2nd, William "Bill" Shankly was born 98 years ago. He passed away on September 29th, 1981, but not before giving a life of service to the club he loved: Liverpool FC. After a playing career at Preston North End and earning 5 caps with Scotland, Shankly managed at Anfield from 1959 to 1974.

On this day, September 2nd, William "Bill" Shankly was born 98 years ago. He passed away on September 29th, 1981, but not before giving a life of service to the club he loved: Liverpool FC. After a playing career at Preston North End and earning 5 caps with Scotland, Shankly managed at Anfield from 1959 to 1974.

I have made it very clear in many posts on different blogs over the last 9 months or so, that I was a committed fan of Fabio Capello, England's Italian manager, and that I was confident that he can finally bring success to a squad that has struggled to achieve. The World Cup definitely tarnished the shine but seeing is believing, and even though I would not have kept him on as coach after South Africa, I was prepared to wait and see.

A new study by a University of Leicester sociologist has highlighted how Liverpool football club became the first British club to truly internationalize the game – many decades before the supposed globalization of football talent.
The football manager is also presumed to be a largely modern invention, associated especially on Merseyside with the popular ‘socialism' and media-friendly charismatic leadership of Bill Shankly from the late 1950s.