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- ISBN 9781836802754
- Dimensions: 160 x 240mm
- Publication Date: 26 Oct 2026
- Publisher: Pitch Publishing Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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A proud football club with five league titles to its name and twice FA Cup finalists, Liverpool had been marooned in the Second Division for five and a half years. In November 1959, the gloom deepened when manager Phil Taylor resigned. Initially linked with Matt Busby’s number two, Jimmy Murphy, Liverpool soon identified Bill Shankly as the man to set the club straight and lead it back to the First Division. Yet chairman T.V. Williams could scarcely have envisaged the empire the former Carlisle United, Grimsby Town, Workington and Huddersfield Town manager would go on to build. Transforming the Reds’ entire ethos, Shankly wrote a new visionary set of scriptures on how to play the game and how to act on Liverpool FC’s behalf – all rooted in simplicity – creating English football’s own version of the Totaalvoetbal phenomenon to come. From biff-and-bash football to pass and move, amid an ocean of tactical change sweeping the sport in the 1960s, this gripping book charts the rise and relentless roll of the Liverpool way.
Steven Scragg is the creator and host of the 1980s football podcast Your Boys Took a Hell of a Beating. He has written for Guardian Sport and The Athletic, and is a regular voice on BBC Radio Merseyside's Total Sport. His debut book, A Tournament Frozen in Time, was shortlisted at the British Sports Book Awards. His other titles have taken in the 1986 World Cup, plus Europe’s major tournaments, including Liverpool’s 2005 Champions League glory.
