Shankly's resignation letter
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Is that real?
Seems like a letter you would type when you were holding back from writing what you really thought.
Seems like a letter you would type when you were holding back from writing what you really thought.
I guess he might have spoken to Smith at length about it - as apparently he did a few times before - and then Smith told him to put it down in writing. That would make sense. But it does seem odd. The pic is from the Shankly Hotel in Victoria Street - Aldo took it when he went to see a preview the memorabilia they've got on display there. I think the hotel opens next month.
He could also really do with calibrating half of the type hammers on the keyboard too.
Look at the state of N and C
Look at the state of N and C
I'm sure he'll get right on to it
I doubt it. Who uses a typewriter these days?
I wonder whether Shanks just didn't feel at ease writing the kind of "soft soap" content one might otherwise have expected.
As it happens I wrote a very similar letter just four years later (except the bit about pensions obv) when resigning from a Civil Service job, but I'd hated the damn job so that was a bit different.
As it happens I wrote a very similar letter just four years later (except the bit about pensions obv) when resigning from a Civil Service job, but I'd hated the damn job so that was a bit different.
Isn't everyone resignation letter like that? I know mine is when I'm leaving jobs, short and to the point.
Someone needs to hold that letter under a burning flame or something cos it would appear there's some smudge of text in the middle bottom of the letter. Perhaps Shanks was trying to tell us something.
Depends on the individual situation, I'd have thought. Shanks leaving Liverpool Football Club was more than just another resignation.
Yeah, but I'm sure there were unrecorded discussions, and this actual letter wasn't a surprise This was just the formality of putting it in paper.
How many resignation letters don't follow prior discussions though? Surely you'd still expect something a trifle warmer under normal circs.when such a close association comes to an end. Shanks did get quite bitter about the club hierarchy later on after being asked to stay away and give Paisley a chance to establish himself, but this was a bit early for that. Maybe there already was some ill feeling between him and Sir John by the time he left?
It will probably never cease to amaze me that he was only 60/61 when he retired. I remember seeing the coverage when I was a kid and thinking he looked as old as God, which as I thought of him as God was no great surprise, but when you think of the likes of Bobby Robson and Ginsoak swanning around in their seventies it's quite odd. Shanks had gone through a hell of a lot of working class strife long before he even got to Liverpool - when he was a player he looked about 60! - and I always remember him saying at his press conference, 'All those years...' and physically sagging at the thought of what he'd put in. I would have thought Smith was good with him but I can quite imagine the directors being hopelessly aloof and unappreciative. Sad, as with Kenny, that they couldn't persuade him to just take the summer to think it over.
There's usually some bullshit line where you state you appreciate how the company has developed you, etc, and that's for jobs you don't really give much of a toss about. For a job as emotional and consuming as being a football manager, it seems strange to end in such an abrupt manner. Was there ever reported clashes between him and the board? I always get the sense he didn't have much time for the men who 'wrote the cheques', but that's only based on his quote and general spare the bullshit mannerism.
I live on Victoria Street, so I'll pop my head in when it opens and snap anything interesting.
I live on Victoria Street, so I'll pop my head in when it opens and snap anything interesting.
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