Back by popular demand, George Scott, The Lost Shankly Boy, was 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. Alongside local lads Chris Lawler and Tommy Smith, George and his pals Bobby Graham and Gordon Wallace were known as the Shankly Boys.
In this episode we explore the characters in George’s memoir, including Ephraim Longworth and club secretary Jimmy McInnes.
We discuss:
Wembley tickets for the 1965 FA Cup final, Istanbul and Athens.
You’ll Never Walk Alone, Steve Heighway, Alf Arrowsmith, Roger Hunt, Ian Callaghan & Peter Thompson
The Shankly formation, Ian Ross at Bayern Munich, Shankly v Klopp, Shankly’s words, playing in South Africa, Tranmere Rovers and Brian Clough
The Anfield dressing rooms, the 1965 Inter Milan semi final
Steve Peplow, Vitoria Setubal, No Surrender, On the toss of a coin
Penalties - good and bad – Tommy Smith, Ronnie Moran, Gordon Milne
Shankly Hotel
Bonus audio after the main episode – how and why George came to write his book plus more Bill Shankly
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.