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title: "Liverpool: Fans remember Bill Shankly on his birthday"
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language: "en-GB"
author: "Liam Togher"
section: "Liverpool Football Club"
published: "2019-09-02T20:15:43Z"
modified: "2019-09-02T20:15:43Z"
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# Liverpool: Fans remember Bill Shankly on his birthday

**The late former Liverpool manager Bill Shankly was remembered by the club on the occasion of what would have been his 106th birthday.**

Liverpool’s official Twitter channel [@LFC](https://twitter.com/LFC/status/1168403681861087233) acknowledged the birth of [one of the club’s longest-serving managers of all time](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/fc-liverpool/mitarbeiterhistorie/verein/31), who was [born on September 2nd, 1913](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/bill-shankly/stationen/trainer/17742).

> On this day 106 years ago, a legend was born.
>
> Bill Shankly, he made the people happy [pic.twitter.com/9OgH4GWsrR](https://t.co/9OgH4GWsrR)
>
> — Liverpool FC (@LFC) [September 2, 2019](https://twitter.com/LFC/status/1168403681861087233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

Shankly [became the Reds’ manager in 1959](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/bill-shankly/stationen/trainer/17742) when the club were [in the old Second Division](https://www.biographyonline.net/sport/football/bill-shankly.html) and went on to win a succession of major trophies in a [15-year reign](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/bill-shankly/stationen/trainer/17742) at Anfield, including [three league titles, two FA Cups and a UEFA Cup](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/bill-shankly/erfolge/trainer/17742).

He also took Liverpool to the [semi-finals of the European Cup in 1965](https://www.biographyonline.net/sport/football/bill-shankly.html) and the [final of the European Cup Winners’ Cup the following year](https://www.biographyonline.net/sport/football/bill-shankly.html).

Shankly, who [died in 1981](https://www.theguardian.com/football/2009/oct/18/bill-shankly-liverpool-manager), is commemorated at Anfield by a [statue outside The Kop](https://www.theguardian.com/football/2009/oct/18/bill-shankly-liverpool-manager) and the [cast-iron Shankly Gates at the front of the Anfield Road stand](https://www.theguardian.com/football/2009/oct/18/bill-shankly-liverpool-manager).

These Liverpool fans on Twitter paid tribute to the club’s former manager on his birthday:

> RIP LEGEND. always in our hearts
>
> Shankly they have taken you away\
> But you left a great eleven\
> Before you went to heaven
>
> — Mo Sinan (@Mo\_sinan\_) [September 2, 2019](https://twitter.com/Mo_sinan_/status/1168404190990864384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

> The Greatest
>
> — Peter Williams (@p\_williams\_0151) [September 2, 2019](https://twitter.com/p_williams_0151/status/1168417964158324736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

https://twitter.com/Mini\_Smith15/status/1168430705581469696

> Iconic, Legend, Hero , Historic
>
> — Zoran (@HamedaIIah) [September 2, 2019](https://twitter.com/HamedaIIah/status/1168409526149795840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

https://twitter.com/AcePhoton/status/1168457652499861505

> The reason why we never walk alone
>
> — tHe environMANtalist (@tickin\_clocks) [September 2, 2019](https://twitter.com/tickin_clocks/status/1168465348980596736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

***Where do you rank Bill Shankly in the pantheon of all-time Liverpool managers? Comment below with your thoughts.***