Sweet Silver Song

Described by Bill Shankly as the twelfth best player in the world, George Scott was one of five Scottish schoolboys signed by Shankly in January 1960. Alongisde local lads Chris Lawler and  Tommy Smith, George and his pals Bobby Graham and Gordon Wallace were known as the Shankly Boys. 

We cover our first FA Cup final win, our first FA Youth Cup final and our first ever European tie.
 
George and host Mark Kerr discuss Gerry Byrne, Gordon Wallace’s two historic goals, Viva Bobby Graham, our first FA Youth Cup final against Harry Redknapp and John Sissons. 

George’s wedding on the day England won the World Cup, Peter Thompson, Denis Law, George Best and St Etienne.

Shankly builds an Anfield dynasty, The Boot Room, Melwood Training with Bob Paisley, Joe Fagan and Reuben Bennett, a bastion of invincibility, the Kop, the band box and the pulpit.

We talk about George's fantastic book about his life at Anfield and and and afterwards, The Lost Shankly Boy, the link to buy the book is below.

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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.