‘THE PASSION THAT GOES WITH FOOTBALL IS WHAT MAKES IT THE GREATEST SPORT ON EARTH’
The legendary Liverpool manager Bill Shankly produced perhaps the most re-produced quote about the beautiful game: “Football is not a matter of life and death - it’s much, much more important than that”.
It is, as with many of Shankly’s, a brilliant line. It is also, as events continue to remind us, not true. The Liverpool icon
