“Someone said to me 'To you football is a matter of life or death!' and I said 'Listen, it's more important than that'.”

—  Bill Shankly

An interview on a Granada Television chat-show, hosted by Shelley Rohde on Wednesday 20th of May 1981

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Scottish footballer and manager 1913–1981

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