Friday, October 2 – 1981
Thousands of Soccer fans who once roared for Bill Shankly stood in silence for him yesterday.
The players who worshipped “The Boss” wept in the rain.
It was a sad farewell to the Liverpool legend, the man who never walked alone.
As Ian St. John, one of the Shankly-groomed stars said: “The legend will live on, but I wish the man had been around a bit longer.”
Every one of the 92 Football League clubs sent a representative to the funeral service at St Mary’s Church, West Derby.
Famous managers like Sir Matt Busby, Jock Stein, Tommy Docherty, Lawrie McMenemy, Ron Saunders, and Bob Paisley, the man who succeeded Bill Shankly at Anfield, stood side by side among the mourners.
All of them ready to admit that their own success was due in no small part to the help and advice they received…
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