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He would turn up at the training ground for five-a-side games (Shankly, that is, not Oscar Wilde) * even after his retirement in 1974, when Paisley took over.
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"You related the team to Shankly, that is all there was for us in those days.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2009
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Shankly's win ratio was blighted by his pre-Liverpool tenures at Workington, Carlisle and Huddersfield, while Keegan's was diminished by his February 1999-October 2000 tenure as England manager: he won only 38.9% of his games, the worst record of any permanent England manager.
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Shankly's win ratio was blighted by his pre-Liverpool tenures at Workington, Carlisle and Huddersfield, while Keegan's was diminished by his February 1999-October 2000 tenure as England manager: he won only 38.9% of his games, the worst record of any permanent England manager.
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It's true: Shankly won 49.95% of his games as manager, while Keegan won 50.47%.
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Frankly, Shankly was the Liverpool manager who signed Keegan in 1971 for £35,000 from Scunthorpe, a legendary figure whose greatness it would be folly to contest before his one-time disciple.
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Frankly, Shankly was the Liverpool manager who signed Keegan in 1971 for £35,000 from Scunthorpe, a legendary figure whose greatness it would be folly to contest before his one-time disciple.
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It's true: Shankly won 49.95% of his games as manager, while Keegan won 50.47%.
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There's something oedipal in this statistical triumph over Shankly, since the pint-sized football philosophising firebrand was a father figure to the similarly pint-sized attacking dynamo.
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There's something oedipal in this statistical triumph over Shankly, since the pint-sized football philosophising firebrand was a father figure to the similarly pint-sized attacking dynamo.
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