The " You'll Never Walk Alone " portion of the Shankly Gates is also reproduced on the club's crest.

" Shankly decided to think about the offer as he realised the great potential at Liverpool, who were also in the Second Division at that time.

Shankly also wanted Twentyman to check the player's personality and ensure he had the right attitude for a professional footballer.

Shankly would also try to boost the confidence of his own players by announcing that a key opponent was unfit.

There was also the example of Bill Shankly, who had experienced an unhappy retirement since leaving Liverpool in 1974.

He also played former Liverpool Football Club manager Bill Shankly in the musical play You'll Never Walk Alone.

He scored both goals in a memorable win over Merseyside rivals Everton at Goodison Park, and also became captain after Tommy Smith had a publicised falling-out with Shankly, who nonetheless kept him in the team.

Shankly later described Yeats's arrival, along with that of striker Ian St John ( also in 1961 ), as the " turning point " as Liverpool began their quest to compete with — and beat — the best in England and in Europe.

After Shankly left school in 1928, he worked at a local mine alongside his brother Bob.

Just prior to the show opening, Murray claimed to have telephoned the switchboard at Anfield using his Shankly voice, causing the receptionist – who had worked there in the Shankly years – to burst into tears on hearing the great man's voice once more.

As a scout for Liverpool he recommended the likes of Kevin Keegan, John Toshack, Peter Beardsley and John Barnes amongst others to the managers he worked under, including: Bill Shankly, Bob Paisley, Joe Fagan and Kenny Dalglish.

The song's title adorns the top of the Shankly Gates, which were unveiled on 2 August 1982 in memory of former manager Bill Shankly.

Shankly made his senior debut on 31 December 1932 in a 2 – 2 draw against Rochdale and made 16 appearances for the first team.

At this stage of his career, Shankly was assessed as " a hard running, gritty right-half " whose displays brought him much praise and credit and he was " earmarked as a key young player capable of taking Carlisle on to greater things ".

Shankly was keen on boxing and fought as a middleweight in the RAF, winning a trophy when he was stationed in Manchester.

Shankly was succeeded in the Preston team by Tommy Docherty and Shankly told Docherty that he should " just put the number 4 shirt on and let it run round, it knows where to go ".

Shankly made his international debut on 9 April 1938 against England at Wembley ; Scotland winning the match 1 – 0 with a late goal by Tommy Walker.

Shankly was Scotland's captain in the wartime match against England at Hampden Park, attended by 78, 000 people on 3 May 1941, but Scotland lost that game 1 – 3.

Perhaps his most memorable international was the wartime game at Wembley on 18 April 1942 when Scotland won 5 – 4 and Shankly scored his only Scotland goal.

But it ended badly because Shankly accused the club's board of reneging on a bonus promise for the players should the team finish in the top three.

But Shankly believed he still had good players to work with and he was able to pick up a few bargain buys on the transfer market.

But Workington operated on a shoestring and Shankly had to do much of the administration work himself, including answering the telephone and dealing with the mail by using an old typewriter to answer letters.

Shankly resigned on 15 November 1955 to take up the post of assistant manager at Huddersfield Town, working with his old friend Andy Beattie.

Beattie resigned in the next season and, on 5 November 1956, Shankly succeeded him as manager.

But, on another occasion, Huddersfield beat Liverpool 5 – 0 with ten men and Shankly recalled " the Liverpool directors leaving the ground in single file like a funeral procession ".

Although Huddersfield won the game 1 – 0, Shankly accepted the Liverpool offer and resigned his position as Huddersfield manager at a board meeting on 1 December 1959.

When Shankly arrived at Anfield on Monday, 14 December 1959, Liverpool had been in the Second Division for five years, and earlier that year had been defeated by non-league Worcester City in the F. A.

Although Shankly found he had a great team on the coaching side, the team on the pitch had major problems.

One of the pitches " looked as if bombs had been dropped on it " and Shankly asked if the Germans had " been over " in the war.

Liverpool's eventual success was based on hard work done in the training system that Shankly, Paisley, Fagan and Bennett introduced at Melwood.

Shankly deplored long distance running on roads and insisted that, apart from warm-up exercises or any special exercises needed to overcome injuries, the players trained on grass using a ball.

However, Shankly had spotted something in the way Borussia Mönchengladbach had set out to play and changed his tactics for the game that would take place the following evening.

Shankly recalled that Brunton Park was dilapidated with the main stand " falling to pieces and the terraces derelict ".

The Queen Is Dead reached number two in the UK charts, and consisted of a mixture of mordant bleakness ( e. g. " Never Had No One Ever ", which seemed to play up to stereotypes of the band ), dry humour ( e. g. " Frankly, Mr. Shankly ", allegedly a message to Rough Trade boss Geoff Travis disguised as a letter of resignation from a worker to his superior ), and synthesis of both, such as in " There Is a Light That Never Goes Out " and " Cemetry Gates ".

This was Kevin Keegan and he was such an " important addition " to the new Liverpool team that Shankly devoted an entire chapter of his autobiography to him entitled " A Boy Called Keegan ".

In his autobiography, Shankly gave insights into his character such as his world-view as a socialist, explaining that the socialism he believed in was not about politics but about collectivism, with everyone working for each other and enjoying a share of the rewards.

Shankly spoke highly of Gerry in an interview after the final saying " It was a performance of raw courage from the boy ", high praise from a man who appreciated such endeavour.

Shankly's village team was called the Glenbuck Cherrypickers, a name probably derived from the 11th Hussars ( the " Cherry Pickers "), but Shankly said " the club was near extinction when I had a trial and I never actually played for them ".

Although Shankly had less than one full season at Cronberry, he acknowledged his debt to Scottish Junior Football as he " learnt a lot ", mainly by listening to older players and especially his brothers.

Shankly had a single season, 1932 – 33, at Carlisle United, then relatively new to The Football League and playing in the Third Division North, their reserve side playing in the North Eastern League.

Shankly was recommended by a scout called Peter Carruthers who had seen him playing for Cronberry.

Shankly was happy at Carlisle which was close to his home at Glenbuck and he had settled in well with almost a guarantee of first team football.

Shankly had just reached his 26th birthday when the Second World War began and the war claimed the peak years of his playing career.

Shankly was a qualified masseur and had decided he wanted to become a coach so, when Carlisle United asked him to become their manager in March of that year, he retired as a player and accepted the job.

Shankly had enormous admiration for Tom Finney and devotes more than three pages of his autobiography to Finney's prowess as a footballer.

Shankly himself certainly had that spirit when playing for Scotland as confirmed by Alex James: " He is a real Scotland player who will fight until he drops ".

Shankly wrote in his autobiography that he had long prepared himself " for the day when I would become a football manager ".

Shankly began his managerial career at the club where his professional playing career had started.

Shankly used psychology to motivate his players, for example telling them that the opposition had had a very tiring journey and were not fit to play the match.

Shankly got the idea from a routine he had seen Tom Finney use at Preston to hone his skills.

Shankly insisted on suitable cooling-off periods after training ( now called " warming down ") before the players took a bath and had a meal.

Liverpool's recovery depended on new players being acquired and, in his autobiography, Shankly recalled the struggles he had with the board to make them realise the club's potential and the need to spend money on good players.