When Bill Shankly found Liverpool, he found a decrepit club languishing in the Second Division. When it was time for him to bid the club goodbye: an empire had been built. This is the start of that story.
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TIMESTAMPS & REFERENCES
The Anatomy of Liverpool (Jonathan Wilson)
The Blizzard (Issue #15)
The Boot Room Boys (Peter Hooton)
The Greatest Games (Jamie Carragher)
LFCHistory.net
Make Us Dream (Neil Atkinson & John Gibbons)
The Mixer (Michael Cox)
These Football Times (Online, Podcast)
00:00 – Introduction
00:30 – Liverpool
03:25 – Shankly
07:40 – How Liverpool was built
14:00 – How Liverpool won
22:10 – Final Thoughts
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ABOUT THE CHANNEL
What if Football is YouTube's only football magazine, with monthly issues of five videos each month on a topic as far back as the dominant Aston Villa team of the 1890s, as recently as Napoli's stunning 2023 Scudetto winning team, as obvious as Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo and their litany of trophies, as obscure as Dynamo Moscow's passovotchka football of the 40s. We've got it all.
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