Remembering Bill Shankly. Please help.

[Armin_Tamzarian]

Hi,

 

Bill Shankly's bond with our supporters is the stuff of legend. There are countless stories of how he helped supporters and always had time for people.

 

You may have seen an article on the Official site recently requesting those who had met Bill Shankly to get in touch?

 

We're hoping to get as many of these stories together in one place, it's a way of ensuring they're not lost.

 

If you know someone with a story to tell please ask them to get in touch. If you have a story to tell then we'd love you to share it with us.

 

Please email shankly@liverpoolfc.tv with details of your story AND a contact telephone number and we'll be in touch soon to arrange to involve you and your story in our celebration for Bill Shankly Week.

 

If you know someone who met Bill Shankly and has a story to tell but doesn't have access to email or the internet, please pass on this request and ask them to telephone Jake Hargreaves on 0151 293 8785. If there's no answer, please leave a message with your contact details and Jake will ring you back.

 

We're also looking for any interviews with Shankly. We are interested in tracking down footage of Bill Shankly being interviewed or speaking. Do you have anything on either VHS or DVD that you think may be of interest to us that we could borrow? Or maybe you have an interview with Shankly talking on CD or in a digital format? Whatever footage you've got of the great man talking about his life, please let us know by sending an e-mail to shankly@liverpoolfc.tv. Please title the E-mail "Shankly Footage". Finally, I thought I'd share this account from Boston Sox on the Official LFC Forum. I think it captures the generosity of the man:

 

I met Bill Shankly in the Seventies.It was following an away game in London.I used to travel to all of Liverpool games mainly on my own by train.I had just got on the train at Euston when the Liverpool team and Bill Shankly got on.I was in the first 2ed class carriage after the buffet bar the team were in the last first class carriage on the other side of the buffet bar.After we had been under way for a bit the door of the buffet bar opened and out came Bill Shankly.He spoke to some fans,singed autographs and photos.He came to the table I was sitting at and sat opposit me.He asked me what I thought of the performance.We had won and the Reds had played well.He asked me how long I had supported Liverpool and I told him I had seen two or three games before he had arrived at Anfield.He smiled at that.He asked me who my favourite player was and I replied Emlyn Hughes.He told me the story of how he had signed Emlyn.He then got out some black and white photographs of him on the pitch at Anfield posing with the FA Cup.He also gave me a card with his private address on and invited me to have tea with him and nessie sometime and his phone number to let him know when I could come.Unfortunatly I never went.He gave me a note saying hand this in at the players enterance whenever I am at Anfield providing it wasn't a matchday and I could have a quick tour of Anfield.This I did and saw the old trophy room the dressing rooms.I got to touch the This Is Anfield Sign and walk on the pitch.I met Emlyn,Chris Lawler and Ian Callaghan.I'll never forget Bill he was just like anyones granddad or father.He was so friendly and a true gentleman.

YNWA Bill

R.I.P

[The Hitman]

Unfortunately I never met him,would've dearly loved to.

True socialist and man of the people.

[johngibo YPC]

Unfortunately I never met him,would've dearly loved to.

True socialist and man of the people.

 

That's a s**** story

[The Hitman]

I know mate,best I could do though.

Hope that helps.