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Liverpool lost 3 – 0 and went out of the competition 4 – 3 on aggregate but Shankly maintained that two of Inter's goals were illegal.

Shankly and Liverpool
Soon after Liverpool lost 2 – 1 to non-league Worcester City in the 1958 – 59 FA Cup, Bill Shankly was appointed manager.
Liverpool continued to wear red shirts and white shorts until 1964, when manager Bill Shankly decided to change to an all red strip.
William " Bill " Shankly OBE ( 2 September 1913 – 29 September 1981 ) was a Scottish footballer and manager who is best remembered for his management of Liverpool.
Shankly took charge of Liverpool when they were in the Second Division and rebuilt the team into a major force in English football.
Shankly announced his surprise retirement from football a few weeks after Liverpool won the 1974 FA Cup Final, having managed the club for fifteen years, and was succeeded by his long-time assistant Bob Paisley.
After he retired from playing, Twentyman became chief scout at Liverpool, working with Shankly and finding " some of the finest talents in British football ".
After a failed interview at Liverpool, Shankly moved to manage Grimsby Town in June 1951.
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 ".
Disillusioned by a board that wanted to sell his best players without offering money to buy replacements, Shankly felt stifled by Huddersfield's lack of ambition and was delighted in November 1959 to receive an approach for his services by Liverpool.
" 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.
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.
Paisley's influence at Liverpool was " crucial " for, as Kelly puts it, Shankly was " the great motivating force behind Liverpool, but it was Paisley who was the tactician ".
With Sawyer's help, Shankly signed them both in the spring of 1961 and challenged the Liverpool board to " sack me if they can't play ".
At a press conference when Yeats came to Liverpool, Shankly emphasised Yeats's huge size by inviting the journalists to " go and walk round him ; he's a colossus!
In the second round they were drawn against the formidable Anderlecht and, just before the match, Shankly decided to experiment with the Liverpool kit.
Liverpool played in red shirts with white shorts and hooped socks but Shankly and Ian St John had the idea of an all-red kit that would emulate the all-white of Real Madrid.
Shankly said after the defeat in Milan that the Inter fans were going mad because they were " so pleased to have beaten Liverpool " and insisted that this proved the high standard " you ( the team ) have raised yourselves up to ".
But Shankly and Paisley had learned a great deal about European football which Liverpool would eventually turn into trophies.
Shankly applied the principle in a preliminary round tie against Juventus when Liverpool were away in the first leg.
Several years later, in his autobiography, Shankly still complained that " the match in Amsterdam should never have started " due to fog and, although Liverpool were thrashed 5 – 1, he " still thought we ( would win the tie ) at Anfield ".
Liverpool improved their League performances over the next two years, finishing third in 1967 – 68 and then second in 1968 – 69, although to Shankly himself it was " a mediocre time in the late 1960s as we prepared for the 1970s ".

Shankly and were
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.
As Shankly recalled in his autobiography, " people would move to other villages where the mines were possibly better ".
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 ".
Shankly wrote in his autobiography that times were hard during his upbringing and everyone was " hungry, especially in wintertime ".
The terms for Shankly personally were a fee of £ 50 plus a £ 10 signing-on fee and wages of five pounds a week.
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 made great use of five-a-side football in training at Grimsby, playing these " as if our lives were at stake ".
But Shankly was immediately at home here as he sensed from the outset a kinship with the supporters, who were " his kind of people ".
According to Roger Hunt, the secret of Liverpool's success was that, under Shankly, " we were the fittest team in the country ".
Although Shankly claimed to have been " undeterred " by the Ajax defeat, he acknowledged that " we were examining the team and planning ahead ".
As always, Shankly kept things simple and Twentyman was told to look for a prospect's basic qualities which were the abilities to pass the ball and move into position to receive a pass.
In April 1973, when Shankly and the team were showing off the League Championship trophy to the fans on the Kop, he saw a policeman fling aside a Liverpool scarf which had been thrown in Shankly's direction.
To Shankly, the two fans were proud that their team had won the FA Cup and were showing their respect to those who had made it possible.

Shankly and their
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 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 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.
In September 1968, Shankly paid £ 100, 000 to Wolverhampton Wanderers for their teenage striker Alun Evans who thus became " football's first £ 100, 000 teenager ".
In 1972 – 73, Liverpool won the club's eighth league title and their third under Shankly.
After 137 league appearances for the Tractor Boys, Liverpool got their man ( though Shankly never did as he had retired two years earlier ) and Johnson went to Anfield.
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.
Liverpool held on to the final whistle and the F. A Cup was heading to Anfield for the very first time with Shankly, Lawrence and the rest of the Liverpool team writing their name down as Liverpool legends forever more.
Lawrence was to enjoy more success the following season as the Reds found their league form once more, winning the 1965 / 66 title by 6 clear points over a Leeds side that were surely beginning to hate the site of, Shankly must have been overjoyed at the fact that Everton finished a full 20 points adrift of his beloved Liverpool.

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