The actor and director Peter Mullan talks about taking on the role of Bill Shankly in the new theatre production in Liverpool, Red or Dead, about the much-loved Liverpool football club manager.

Peter Mullan reveals why he wanted to play Liverpool's mythologised manager — and how he captured his fellow Scot's voice ...

Bill Shankly brought success to Liverpool FC. And to some fans he also represents an era of football which was less commercial and more rooted in community. The Spirit of Shankly Group ...

It is one of the great football yarns, the tale of how Frank Worthington came within a hair's breadth of joining Bill Shankly's Liverpool in the summer of 1972. The story was widely revisited in ...

For Liverpool fans of a certain vintage, the 1974 FA Cup was the zenith of Bill Shankly’s reign. Everything Shankly had spent 15 years building at Anfield, came to fruition that May afternoon at ...

Centre-back Yeats was the inspirational club captain as Bill Shankly constructed a new Anfield era in the 1960s, leading the team from the old second division to become English champions.