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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Benjamin Roberts-Haslam

LFC fans helped legend make one last journey along Anfield Road

Friends of a devoted Liverpool fan made sure he got one final journey along Anfield Road before he died.

Yesterday saw tributes flood in to lifelong Reds fan Jimmy Flowers, after it was revealed he had died from pancreatic cancer. Jimmy was integral in helping to get the original memorial to Bill Shankly unveiled in the legendary manager's home village of Glenbuck in Scotland.

Spirit of Shankly's Stephen Morgan paying tribute to Jimmy in 2019 when the original memorial was given a new lease of life. He said on the ECHO's Allez Les Rouges podcast: "The initial memorial to Bill Shankly up at Glenbuck was the work of Jimmy Flowers, who used to run the Liverpool Away Supporters Club, and is unfortunately unable to make this trip - we wish him well.

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