DECISION TO LEAVE
The year is 1974, it’s Friday and a young reporter from Granada TV, Tony Wilson, is vox-popping by Liverpool Lime Street, asking the people of the city about the utter shock news that Bill Shankly has resigned from Liverpool Football Club. He is having trouble convincing the young scousers he meets that the news is true: “He’s not sick, he gets very tired, the pressures are great, he wants a rest … it came on the wires at 12 o’clock … I swear it’s true.” “Yiz having me on, aren’t yer?” says one lad, face racked with disbelief. “What did he mean to you?” Wilson asks another. “Everything,” comes a definitive, crestfallen reply. Fifty years on, though its means of communication were rather less analogue, the news alerting smartphones worldwide, history is repeating itself. Again. And it’s true: Jürgen Klopp is leaving Liverpool Football Club.
