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25 years ago this weekend since the death of Bill Shankly one of the greatest managers ever, if it weren't for Shankly Liverpool would probably be playing Accrington Stanley or the likes this weekend.
He took Liverpool to 3 1st division titles, 2 FA Cups, 1 UEFA Cup and a 2nd division title and laid the foundations for every Liverpool success since.
He was a funny man but people took him too serious when he said such things as "football isn't a matter of life or death it's more important" which he said tongue in cheek, he also said when he was manager at Anfield that he had the best two teams on merseyside Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.
I'd put Shankly in the top five British managers with Bob Paisley, Jock Stein, Brian Clough and Alex Ferguson. I'd put Bob Paisley top of the list as imo he's the greatest manager of all time not only in England and Europe but worldwide, the other's would have to be equal second as Shankly, Ferguson and Clough all built teams from scratch and Stein took a Celtic team to European glory in 67 with a team made up of all Scottish players which I can pretty much guarentee will never happen again.
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