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The Lost Shankly Boy is an enthralling tale of triumph over adversity and hope amid despair. It tells the story of George Scott, a poor boy from a fishing village in Aberdeen, who dreamed of a career in football and ended up rubbing shoulders with one of the game's managerial greats, Bill Shankly. He would assemble a team to rival the famous 'Busby Babes' - his very own 'Shankly Boys'. With Tommy Smith and Chris Lawler already at the club, he would add Gordon Wallace, Bobby Graham and a 15-year-old George Scott - 'the lost Shankly Boy'. Scott provides a fascinating insight into modern Liverpool's formative years and Shankly's Anfield. His is an untold story of a dream crushed and of a career rebuilt in Scottish football and taken to new heights in the South African Premier League. The Lost Shankly Boy speaks to every kid who dreams of football glory. It is a never-say-die tale of passion, commitment and hard work that will resonate with anyone who has ever tasted the pain of rejection - only to rise again and grow stronger.

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Publié par	Pitch Publishing Ltd
Date de parution	21 septembre 2020
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781785317514
Langue	English

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Praise for The Lost Shankly Boy
A gripping story of a young man s quest to become a professional footballer, his fightback from a series of challenges - including a hair-raising brush with death in South Africa - and ultimately of a bond between player and manager that has spanned a lifetime. All of it told with an easy-going style that at times takes you closer to the history of the Shankly era than ever before.
Dave Usher , The Liverpool Way
An honest tale of the beginnings of the Shankly era at Liverpool, seen through the eyes of a talented yet humble boy. A brilliantly told story, with a stellar cast, yet the real star is George Scott and the impact that his short career at Liverpool had on the rest of his life. Jeff Goulding manages to encapsulate George Scott s incredible story and transport you so vividly into the fabled boot room, that you can smell the dubbin on the boots.
Stuart Horsfield , These Football Times
Parts of his book will make you howl with laughter while others will have you reaching for a box of tissues to mop up the tears. We can only be thankful that the Lost Shankly Boy was eventually found and encouraged to tell us all about his amazing journey.
Christopher Wood , LFC History
George Scott was a Liverpool player for five years, but his extraordinary story shows how Bill Shankly managed his entire career.
Chris McLoughlin , Senior Writer, Reach Sport
George s book captures every emotion. You will laugh and you will cry as his story, so brilliantly written, takes you from humble beginnings to the heart of Liverpool s rise to world fame, both culturally and on the football field. It is a pleasure to read as George s inspirational story unfolds. Bill Shankly insisted on working with people of good character. This book illustrates why George Scott was part of Shanks Red Revolution.
Kieran Smith , Liverpool FC Historical Group
The George Scott story fills in the gap between what life was like for the men who became legends and those who didn t quite make it. It illuminates what the life of reserve players was like and how they had to cope with life after Liverpool.
John Pearman, Red All Over the Land

First published by Pitch Publishing, 2020
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George Scott, with Jeff Goulding, 2020
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Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction
1. Life in Aberdeen and the Call of Anfield
2. High Hopes and Great Expectations
3. The First Shankly Boys
4. The Men of Anfield
5. The Boot Room Cabal
6. The Culture Club and the Stress of Empire-Building
7. Scott of the Reserves and Watching the Reds Hit the Summit
8. The Twelfth-Best Player in the World
9. Back Home with the Heavenly Dancers
10. Glory in South Africa and a Brush with Death
11. The Long Arm of Shankly and Brian Clough s Colourful Greeting
12. Denis Law, Elizabeth Taylor and Henry Kissinger
13. Bill Shankly and the Legacy He Left Me
14. In My Mersey Paradise`
Journey s End, At Least for Now
This book is dedicated to:
My beautiful wife Carole
thank you for 54 years of happiness
without you I would have achieved nothing
Also, to our amazing family
Gavin and Diane Scott
Callum Scott
Charlie Scott
Craig and Joanne Scott
Cameron Scott
and
James Scott
Finally, in loving memory of
my mother Agnes Braik
my father George Edward Brown Scott
my stepfather John Livingstone Braik
my grandparents Bill and Jean Fiddes
my brother-in-law Billy Kneale
Acknowledgements
MY GRATEFUL thanks must go to Ian Callaghan MBE for writing such a lovely foreword to this book and to my coauthor, Jeff Goulding. Thanks also go to Chris Wood, whose encyclopaedic knowledge of Liverpool FC and football in general have proved invaluable, and to Jonny Stokkeland for providing me with valuable information and statistics from the Liverpool FC archives.
I would also like to express my gratitude to my great friend, Gordon Wallace. Thanks for the many brilliant experiences we have shared on the football field and on the golf course in the past 60 years. To all the players I have played with during my football career and all the wonderful people I have worked with in my life after football.
And to Bill Shankly, for setting the standards I have lived by.
Some are dead and some are living
In my life I loved them all
Lennon and McCartney, 1965
Foreword
By Ian Callaghan MBE
GEORGE AND I arrived at Anfield via different routes. I was obviously a local lad and had already been training at Melwood as an amateur for a couple of years when George arrived in 1960 from Scotland. George signed on as an apprentice and I can vividly remember watching him and the other lads that Shanks had brought down from Scotland having to do all these chores around the stadium.
They d be cleaning the first teamers boots, picking up the rubbish from the Kop after a game and forking over the pitch. Let s just say it didn t look like pleasant work. I d feel sorry for them, but at the same time I was relieved that I didn t have to join them.
I played several times with George in the reserve team during the 1962/63 Central League season. George was a hard worker. He was also a talented attacking midfielder, with an eye for goal. I always knew that if I found him with a pass, he would know what to do with the ball and I m sure I set a few goals up for him during that season.
Shankly wanted players who could fight, had skill and ability and who could stand up for themselves and their team-mates on the pitch. You had to have a work ethic, and George had all of this in abundance. The problem for him was that Bill had assembled a first team full of established internationals, players who, for the most part, were the finished article.
Back then, there was the first eleven and the reserve team. That was it. No substitutes and, unless a player was injured, the opportunities were very few and far between. I feel blessed to have been given my chance and to have taken full advantage of it. But I always felt that George was forever on the cusp and very unlucky not to make the breakthrough.
There was no questioning his work ethic, or his consistency, and his goal-scoring record spoke for itself. He was also very vocal and expended so much energy on the pitch. That wasn t me though. I was a quiet player who liked to just get on with the game. I know the boss thought very highly of George, probably because the one quality he admired most in any player was enthusiasm. Unfortunately, for George, the road to the first team was blocked by players who went on to be legends for the club and who won many honours.
George and I never had a cross word in all the time we played together and in all the time since our playing days ended. I was especially pleased that he had managed to play for his boyhood club back in Aberdeen and thrilled that he became a player of some renown in South Africa. He deserved to have that success.
Today, George and I stay in touch and support each other with the various charity activities we are involved in. Both of us are so blessed to have been at Anfield during the birth of what became one of the biggest footballing institutions on the planet.
George remains as passionate about the club today as he was 60 years ago. That he still speaks so highly of a manager and a club that let him go, speaks volumes about the man. He was a loyal servant of Liverpool Football Club and has remained a supporter ever since.
George and I witnessed the first building blocks of the modern Liverpool being laid, and we saw at first hand the hard work and dedication of the men who dragged the club from the Second Division and drove it to the top of the game. I know George has many great stories to tell about those five years he spent at the club and his life after Anfield. They were truly the best of times for both of us.

Ian Callaghan MBE
Introduction
BILL SHANKLY had a million quotes, he taught me so much. You will find his sayings and lessons littered throughout this book. But one of his mantras has stayed with me more than any other, You are nothing without enthusiasm. So as I sit down and prepare to write my memoirs, I hope that every word you read will embody this spirit. Even though, as I write this, I find myself contemplating the loss of so many wonderful people, the challenges I and my family have faced and, to be truthful, my own mortality.
As I look back on my life, I realise that I have been blessed to have met, known, worked with and loved so many great people. I hope I haven t taken any of them for granted, but perhaps I did a little. In my latter years, looking ahead to turning 76 and facing the challenges that come with age, I have come to reflect more on what I now realise has been a remarkable life. I believe it s a story worthy of telling, but unknown to so many. I have crossed paths with some truly inspiring folk. Their stories have lit up my life. So, before I get too old to record them all for posterity, I have decided to share it al