My next match, was 3pm today, at Penistone Grammar School v an U18 school team from Doncaster in the ESFA U18 Schools' Cup, held at the moment by Millfield School (an independent school!). I went, no sign of a lads' game......came home.
It is football, football, football! So why not consider one of the great football men. I guess I could have written more about Sir Stanley, or Pele (it has just been his birthday by the way) or Roy Hodgson BUT it is Bill Shankly who is in the news today, because there is a film to be shown soon called "Nature's Fire", all about him! It is a Riverhorse TV production commissioned by BBC Scotland.
Here's a bit of advertising for you to whet your whistle.
http://www.liverpoolphil.com/whats-on/shankly-natures-fire
The news of this film has been written up by Paul Hayward in the DTelegraph, so why not make sure that a few more football people might benefit from knowing about this little gem (the film that is not Shankly...he was not little).
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2017/10/24/bill-shanklyfilm-reminder-liverpool-fans-can-happenwith-defensive/
Shankly came from the tiny East Ayrshire village of Glenbuck. He died in September 1981 at 68 years old. He played for Carlisle and Preston 1932-49 and Scotland 5 times. Carlisle, Grimsby, Workington, Huddersfield and Liverpool were his managed clubs between 1949-1974. When he joined Liverpool as manager in 1959 they were in the Second Division and had just been beaten by Worcester City in the FA Cup. The Anfield pitch needed a watering system and the Melwood Training facility was a shambles. He had much to do.
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