Number 5 - I can picture it!! Love it

Oh and Happy Birthday old boy

He was the mastermind behind Liverpool's unprecedented treble success of 1984
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it wasnt the real treble though

Dunc

sorry couldnt resist, although i did show my respects too

Should have been Dundee United you faced in that 84 final.

Cheating fecking Romans.

The Blues were, at this point, the pre-eminent club on Merseyside and one of the richest in the land. It was a tempting offer but as Joe's late wife Lil later testified: "He was more than happy at Anfield. He had made good friends there and the club was progressing as he would have hoped. He felt part of something and saw no reason to go elsewhere."

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He deserves all he won/praise he got.

I'm reading Red or Dead the Shankly book, it's good although the writing style is strange and can be very annoying at times.

But there is a great story in it, not really about Fagan solely but the management team as a collective.

On Shanks first day in Melwood he was angered by the state of the trainign pitch. He, along with Joe Fagan, Bob Paisly, and another coach whose name slips my mind got a sack each. They spread out across the breath of the pitch and porceeded to slowly walk up and down the pitch and hand picking every stone, bit of broken glass and general debris from the surface. They did this over and over again for weeks until the pitch was completley clear of all stones and debris filling a load of sacks in th eprocess, talk about dedication to the cause!

comment by kneerash-23 Cara Gold (U6876)
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I'm reading Red or Dead the Shankly book, it's good although the writing style is strange and can be very annoying at times.

But there is a great story in it, not really about Fagan solely but the management team as a collective.

On Shanks first day in Melwood he was angered by the state of the trainign pitch. He, along with Joe Fagan, Bob Paisly, and another coach whose name slips my mind got a sack each. They spread out across the breath of the pitch and porceeded to slowly walk up and down the pitch and hand picking every stone, bit of broken glass and general debris from the surface. They did this over and over again for weeks until the pitch was completley clear of all stones and debris filling a load of sacks in th eprocess, talk about dedication to the cause!
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that is dedication, especially since the could have easily disignated it to someone else.

exactly what I thought Dunc, he started it on the first day of pre season and had the players doing laps of the pitch while they cleaned it, Melwood was very rundown at the time, Shanks had it fixed up and painted from top to bottom in his first year.