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Five more stories from The Second Coming of Shankly documentary

 

The 1972-73 season would go down as one of the most memorable and important seasons in Liverpool’s history.

Bill Shankly’s Reds won the league title as well as the club’s first European Cup, defeating Borussia Mönchengladbach to win the UEFA Cup, ending a seven-year trophyless spell.

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Fifty years later, the story of Shankly’s second great part is repeated in the new LFC Original. Shankly’s second coming is now available to watch on demand on LFCTV GO and features player and supporter memories along with outstanding archive footage.

Let’s take a look at five other interesting facts from the film..Watford’s shock changed everythingFor many, Liverpool’s emergence as a dominant force at home and abroad in the 1970s dates back to their FA Cup quarter-final defeat by Watford in February 1970.

“We were absolutely terrible,” said Brian Reid after the Reds lost 1-0 at Vicarage Road. “That was the day I realized this team lost.”Ian Callaghan recalled turning up to training on Monday and being told there would be a friendly against Blackburn Rovers.

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“He changed teams like I didn’t know,” Callaghan said. “After the Watford game, the players pulled out. It was like a new era.”Callaghan was among the survivors of the massacre, but within 12 months Roger Hunt, Ian St John, Tommy Lawrence and Ron Yates, Ray Clemens, John Toshack, Emlyn Hughes and Larry Lloyd had left or been dropped. emerged as Shankly’s new mainstay.

Keegan is a catalyst.

Liverpool were disappointed to lose the 1970-71 FA Cup final to Arsenal, but that summer they signed a deal that could take them to the next level.”Half the world lacks natural passion,” Shankly says in the film. But not Kevin Keegan. That and his ability make him the player he is.

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“Keegan joined from Scunthorpe United for just £33,000 and went on to become one of the club’s greatest ever players. “He was the next superstar after George Best,” Callaghan said. “He came to Liverpool and he was fantastic.

“Liverpool missed out on the league title in 1971-72 and their last game against Arsenal was controversial, but with the arrival of Keegan it was clear that success was not far off. “You could feel what was happening because he had the drive to succeed,” Phil Thompson said. “He wanted to win the prize.”the last piece of the puzzle

Shankly was lucky to find a player who could help Liverpool regain the league title. In the summer of 1972, the Reds planned to sign Frank Worthington from Huddersfield Town, but the move fell through when the in-form striker failed to recover.

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Undeterred, Shankly replaced him with Nottingham Forest attacking midfielder Peter Cormack in what proved to be a masterstroke. “Shankley described it as the last piece of the puzzle, and I can see why,” Reid recalls. “He was like Bobby Firmino for me.

“Thompson agrees. “Peter was a great player,” he says. “I called him because his toes were glowing. He always walked on his feet. “It’s really nice to get in the box late.”Cormack scored 10 goals in his first season on Merseyside, including crucial goals against Everton and title rivals Leeds United. It’s really the last piece of the puzzle.

Thomo Nodded.

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Liverpool became league champions on 28 April 1973 after a goalless draw against Leicester City at Anfield. Thompson will always remember this day. While still an apprentice, he helped change the seats at Anfield, producing a mosaic reading of that week’s league champions, Liverpool FC.

On the day of the next match, over 56,000 fans were in the stadium and Thompson was named in the starting XI. “Brian Hall was a junior,” he recalls. “He’s crazy!” I was young and still a fan.

“I apologized to Brian.”A goalless draw was enough to give Liverpool the title, with Shankly in a red shirt providing some great images of the celebrations that followed.He later said it was “my best footballing moment”. the glory of germanyLiverpool’s final task after winning the title was to end the club’s wait for the European Cup.

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With the likes of Gunter Netzer, Jupp Heynckes and Bertie Vogts standing in the way, Mönchengladbach showed their strength after a torrential rain in the first leg of the final at Anfield. “He knew I couldn’t defend the ball in the box,” explains Thompson. That evening, Shankly replaced John Toshak, who had been named in the starting line-up.

“I said to John, ‘Go home, sleep and get ready for tomorrow night.’With Toshak back in the starting line-up, Liverpool won the first leg 3–0, but in the second leg at Gladbach 13 days later, things continued to be tense, with Germany leading 2–0 and Liverpool holding on.Reed recalls, “It was the longest half I’ve ever heard on the radio.” “It felt like we walked 100 miles,” said Linda Clark, who was at the stadium.

Liverpool are coming off one of their most memorable seasons. “I think that was the start of the modern Liverpool football club,” said supporter Jagsey Dodd. “Then we went on to dominate everything.”

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