Watched the documentary 'Shankly: Nature's Fire' last night on iPlayer. Shankly is passionately remembered as the man who single-handedly built Liverpool into one of the most successful football clubs in the world.
The doc conveys the passion of the man and his application of socialist principles on the football field. He took the club from Division 2 to the final of the European Cup where they were robbed by a genuinely dodgy ref.
Incredibly three of the greatest managers to have worked in British football - Bill Shankly, Matt Busby and Jock Stein - were from Ayrshire mining families, born barely 20 miles apart. The doc was well put together, my only complaint was we didn't hear enough the great man himself. Still remember Emlyn Hughes saying somewhere else the only thing he thought about having scored was only would that have put a smile on Shankly's face?