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- ISBN 9781836804468
- Dimensions: 144 x 222mm
- Publication Date: 26 Oct 2026
- Publisher: Pitch Publishing Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The Sweet Silver Song is a forensic study of a manager, a club and arguably the most successful decade in English football. On 12 July 1974, Merseyside fell silent. News had broken that Bill Shankly – the man who transformed Liverpool from a ramshackle Second Division side into a team that could ‘conquer the bloody world’ – had resigned. What followed was uncertainty. Who could replace the irreplaceable? The answer was his assistant, Bob Paisley: quiet, reluctant, the antithesis of Shankly. Yet over nine remarkable years he built a side that became the best in Europe. Drawing on interviews with those who worked with and against him, The Sweet Silver Song explores how Paisley built on Shankly’s foundations, how his teams played, how the club evolved, and how his methods turned great into greatest. This is the story of Liverpool’s era of unparalleled glory – a book sure to delight not just Reds fans, but anyone intrigued by this electrifying chapter in the English game.
Leo Moynihan has spent 25 years as a freelance sports journalist, writing for The Sunday Telegraph, The Times, Esquire and FourFourTwo. His books include The Three Kings and Thou Shall Not Pass. He also ghosted Andrew Cole’s Fast Forward, Harry and Jamie Redknapp’s A Family Obsession and Ally McCoist’s Dear Scotland. He is a three-time British Sports Book Awards finalist.
