Following an FA Cup final victory, in July 1974 Bill Shankly, unexpectedly announced his retirement.

Shankly tried to keep busy in retirement and stay in touch with football.

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

This was to be the peak of Lindsay's Liverpool career, Shankly, the man who brought Lindsay to Merseyside, shook the very foundations of Anfield by suddenly announcing his retirement.

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 ".

Shankly admitted the act was wrong but it was " devilment more than badness " and the root cause was their constant hunger, but he insists that he and his friends learned from their mistakes and became " better people in the long run ".

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 ".

Shankly, aged 18, then played " half a season " ( 1931 – 32 ) for Cronberry Eglinton, about twelve miles from Glenbuck.

Soon after the 1932 – 33 season ended, Shankly received a telegram from Carlisle United asking him to return as soon as possible because " another club was after me ".

Shankly played for Scotland twelve times from 1938 to 1943 in five full and seven wartime internationals.

After he retired from playing, Twentyman became chief scout at Liverpool, working with Shankly and finding " some of the finest talents in British football ".

Shankly resigned and took up an offer from Grimsby Town.

Shankly also worked on set pieces such as throw-ins and had a successful method of counter-attacking from corners conceded.

But Shankly was immediately at home here as he sensed from the outset a kinship with the supporters, who were " his kind of people ".

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.

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

" Goalkeeper Tommy Lawrence came through the club's junior teams, so Shankly now had his " strength through the middle " and the team building continued with the transfer of wing half Gordon Milne from Preston.

Watching from the sidelines was another new player whom Shankly had recently signed from Scunthorpe United for £ 35, 000 on Twentyman's recommendation.

But Shankly took encouragement from the team's overall form, especially as they made a strong finish to the season, and he was confident of success in 1972 – 73.

In his autobiography, Shankly wrote: " Right from the start as a manager ( i. e., when he was at Carlisle ) I tried to show that the fans are the people that matter.

Shankly was 60 years old when Liverpool won the 1974 FA Cup and, on returning to the dressing room at the end of the match, he " felt tired from all the years ".

" It is with great regret that I as chairman of Liverpool Football Club have to inform you that Mr Shankly has intimated that he wishes to retire from active participation in league football.

" Feeling unwanted, Shankly began to resent the club although he still attended matches but sat in the stand away from the directors and staff.

Shankly had no time for bigotry or prejudice, especially arising from differences of religion.

The songs omitted from the recording of the Kilburn show are: " I Want the One I Can't Have ", " There Is a Light That Never Goes Out ", " Frankly, Mr. Shankly ", " Never Had No One Ever ", " Meat Is Murder ", and " How Soon Is Now?

* Barry Knowles ( born 1965 ), Liverpool Football Club supporter and " Spirit of Shankly " ( Liverpool FC Supporters Union ) member from Dudley, West Midlands

Yeats, a stockily-built 6 ft 2 in central defender, was bought by manager Bill Shankly in 1961 from United and was immediately installed as captain as Liverpool gained promotion from the Second Division after eight seasons away from English football's top flight.

** Bill Shankly, Scottish football manager ( d. 1981 )

* September 29 – Bill Shankly, British football manager ( b. 1914 )

Shankly took charge of Liverpool when they were in the Second Division and rebuilt the team into a major force in English football.

All five Shankly brothers played professional football and Shankly claimed that " once, when we were all at our peaks, we could have beaten any five brothers in the world ".

While Shankly was employed as a miner, he played football as often as possible and sometimes went to Glasgow to watch either Celtic or Rangers, sharing his allegiance between the two and ignoring the sectarianism that " divided Glasgow in two ".

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.

With the resumption of full League football again in the 1946 – 47 season, Shankly returned to Preston who held his registration, but he was now 33 and coming to the end of his playing days.

Shankly was famous for his dedication to football.

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

Shankly summed up the essential criteria for success in football management when he said: " I could speak common sense about the game and I could spot a player ".

Shankly insisted that his Grimsby team was: " Pound for pound, and class for class, the best football team I have seen in England since the war.

Shankly made great use of five-a-side football in training at Grimsby, playing these " as if our lives were at stake ".

Although Workington is a remote place in football terms and the team was close to the bottom of the Third Division North, Shankly saw it as a challenge and " he attacked the job with all the enthusiasm and relish he always showed at whatever he did ".

But Shankly and Paisley had learned a great deal about European football which Liverpool would eventually turn into trophies.

Adding the new players to Tommy Smith, Ian Callaghan, Chris Lawler and Emlyn Hughes, Shankly formed the nucleus of a second great team which went on to dominate English and European football in the 1970s.

Summer was the worst time of year for Shankly who " could not live without his daily fix of football " and so he had threatened to resign in previous years.

But, again, what Shankly did not understand was that his relations with the board had often been acrimonious with several resignation threats and a statement made by Shankly that: " At a football club, there's a holy trinity – the players, the manager and the supporters.

Despite being in his sixties, Shankly kept himself fit and often took part in five-a-side football.

Shankly was fanatical about Liverpool and about football in general.