Sweet Silver Song

Host Mark Kerr talks to fellow Anfield tour guide Bob Williams and to the subject of the biography, The Lost Shankly Boy, a book that tells of his five years as a Liverpool player. 

In this episode: Shankly resigns, Paisley the unknown trainer, Ronnie Whelan brought back to earth, St John finds out he is dropped, Shankly’s big regret, injured players Chris Lawler, Gordon Wallace, the Back Room Boys, Heysel and Hillsborough, trauma of survivors, hooliganism, facilities improve, state of pitches, Klopp’s legacy, Getting a Man Utd kit for Christmas, team uniform, a boggy pitch, the Kop starts singing, Anfield expanded but at what cost to local supporters? Shankly siege vs Klopp press, Mo Salah & Luis Suarez. 

Bonus Tracks 
1.      Billy Liddell hat trick, Jimmy Melia gets the shock treatment, Gordon Wallace and the first goal on  Match Of The Day, Viva Bobby Graham, sporting supporters, goalkeepers – Ray Clemence, Billy Younger, Bert Slater, Jim Furnell, Tommy Lawrence – and, Loris Karius. 
2.      YNWA         3.      George Scott signs for Liverpool

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What is Sweet Silver Song?

Sweet Silver Song is a podcast that tells you the stories of Liverpool Football Club, one of the world’s greatest teams, six times European champions and followed by over 770 million people worldwide.

My name is Mark Kerr, a lifelong Liverpool supporter, who has been watching my team since 1965. I will be talking to people who know this club, who work there and have played for it. Week by week, we will fill you in on the amazing stories that make our club the worldwide institution it is today.

We will talk about Istanbul, that Barca match and Borussia Dortmund at Anfield. But we will also talk about losing 5-1 to Ajax in the fog, a 9-1 defeat at Birmingham City and being knocked out of the FA Cup by a non league team in 1959!

We will remember the great players, not just Salah, Gerrard and Virgil, but our great Scots like Kenny, Graeme Souness and Billy Liddell, Welsh wizards like Rush, and local lads like Jimmy Melia, Jimmy Case and Jimmy Payne.

There are millions of stories about our great club and we look forward to sharing some of them with you.