Is anyone today more passionate about football than the late Liverpool manager Bill Shankly was? Watching Australia’s Poweroos train in the run up to the 2023 FIPFA Powerchair Football World Cup, reminded me of the Scotsman’s famous quote comes to mind: “Some people treat football as a matter of life and death … it’s much more important than that.”
Shankly was speaking in the mid-70s, well before player celebrity brands and big-money agents were a thing. He led at a time when footballers were grittier and left everything on the pitch. Others think the modern game is more exciting to watch for its skill and tactics. Powerchair football gives you the best of both and the game’s mettle rewrites Shankly’s words in bold.
