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Great! Another thread on it's way to ruin with your usual utter bollox.

dont talk stupid, people put posts up to be discussed and debated, a post starts off with a main topic and people respond and put there own little takes on things after 3 or 4 pages the things people are discussing are very rarely the same thing as the topic was stated about, use your brain and have a look at other threads if you don't believe me...

Because I don't want to hijack this thread, unlike you, I'd like to point out that most threads are led in one direction by you and that direction is the one you're trying to take this one in.

We get that you don't like LFC very much but not every thread has to be ruined by your bile. May I suggest that you get a grip of yourself and remove yourself from LFC if you don't like it so much.

That's all I'm saying on this so hopefully the thread can get back on track and not be ruined by your usual bullshitte.

Top man Bob Paisley, very modest. But then they have always said actions speak louder than words

Yep, he was very modest, one of his sayings was 'If you want to be heard, speak quietly', something I've used in my job and it works !!!

It must have been a great place to be at LFC in the 70's/80's to see the boot room in operation, there are some amazing stories when Shankley first became manager, one of my faves was the dugout:

Bill decided that we needed a new dugout at Anfield so set about getting a new one built. It transpired that Bob Paisley had done a bit of bricklaying when he was younger so Bill decided that he was the man to build it.
Bob recruited Joe Fagan to help him and got a young apprentice by the name of Tommy Smith to be the hod carrier. It took them a bit of time to build it but when it was finished Bill Shankly declared it to be the best dugout in the world.


Imagine that now? Sturridge as the Hod carrier, he'd never play again !!!!

I was a bit too young and not really into football yet when he finished but heard nothing but good things about him from that era.

Yeah, I got into football in the late 80's in my teens, I just like reading the stories from the 70's, especially with Clough/Shankley etc, I've read a few books and seen documentaries, it's a different world and we will never see the likes of again.

It seemed like every team had a top manager in those days even the ones that never really won trophies am talking the likes of Malcolm Allison, Lawrie McMenemy, John Lyall, Sir Bobby Don Revie, Cloughie and Ron Greenwood imagine all those around about the same time. I suppose we were all spoilt at the time and they didn't call it the golden Era for nothing....

Great thread and thanks faz for posting. I am going to say something you might not like. For me shankly and Paisley had much in common with Ferguson and clough. I am not saying they had the same personalities no what I am saying is they had that rare and inate ability to get right inside the heads of players Paisley particularly was brilliant at it. I remember John o hare saying of clough they would literally run through a brick wall for him. You never know let's hope Klopp has that rare ability we can only hope

maybe in those days managers calling the shots had a lot to do with the respect players had for managers...unfortunately players call the shots now and that's why I said those old managers wouldn't last 5 mins in today's game. I suppose it makes the likes of what Sir Alex did even more amazing because he was old school with old school methods yet seemed to move with the times and was successful in the modern game too, very rare but Bob Paisley was deffo up there with the very best....