Biography bill shankly liverpool reign
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William "Bill" Shankly, OBE, lived from 2 September 1913 to 29 September 1981. He was a highly respected football manager best known for leading Liverpool FC to a string of successes in the 1960s and 1970s.
Biography bill shankly liverpool reign
The wider picture in Scotland at the time is set out in our Historical Timeline.
Bill Shankly was born in the remote East Ayrshire mining village of Glenbuck, on the A70 between Douglas and Muirkirk. He was one of a family of 10 children, and four of his older brothers went on to become professional football players, one of whom, Bob Shankly, also later became a football manager, guiding Dundee to the League Championship in 1962.
His maternal uncle, Bob Blyth, had been a professional footballer and manager in England. In Glenbuck, football was a way of escaping the day to day realities of life as a coal miner.
In July 1932 Shankly, then aged 18, was spotted by a scout for Carlisle United, and made hi