How it feels to play Bill Shankly on stage: ‘He was no f***ing saint’
Peter Mullan reveals why he wanted to play Liverpool's mythologised manager — and how he captured his fellow Scot's voice ...
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Meet the football maverick who failed a Liverpool medical TWICE after a summer of sex
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 ...
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Ron Yeats – ‘the Colossus’ Bill Shankly built his first great Liverpool team around – dies aged 86
Centre-back Yeats was the inspirational club captain as Bill Shankly constructed ... be attributed to Yeats. Shankly thought he looked so intimidating dressed in one colour, he ditched the white ...
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The 90s pop star and legion of football fans who made a pilgrimage to a tiny, abandoned Ayrshire mining village
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 ...
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Why the 1974 FA Cup Final summed up the best of Bill Shankly for Liverpool fans
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 ...
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Peter Mullan's return to the stage is a one-off: 'I can't afford it'
When Peter Mullan steps on stage as legendary football manager Bill Shankly on Friday night, it will be for the first time in more than 30 years. Red or Dead is an adaptation of the 2013 David ...
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Peter Mullan as Bill Shankly, 100 years of Art Deco, Jonathan Pie
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.