Bill Shankly was one of ten children from an Ayrshire mining
village. Alex Ferguson was a shipyard worker's son who went on to
become a toolmaker's shop steward. Both of them enjoyed
distinguished but not outstanding playing careers. Both of them
raged against the might of the rich in their early managerial days,
and both of course will be remembered as two of the mightiest
figures in the history of the English game. There is a rich seam
that links the epic lives of Shankly and Ferguson, running between
their enemy football strongholds in Liverpool and Manchester. It
goes deeper than the myriad achievements of both men - three league
titles for Shankly, eight championships and a European Cup for
Ferguson. What binds them is their long love affairs with football,
which were so consuming that a tragic form of rejection was almost
inevitable. Shankly felt betrayed by the club he had built from the
ground up in the 1960s, and when he died from a heart attack in
1981 the deep rift between him and Liverpool had not been healed.
Equally, with Malcolm Glazer's takeover, Ferguson looks more and
more like a man out of his time, a man whose once absolute
authority over his players may be slipping. In this riveting dual
biography Oliver Holt takes two of football's undisputed greats and
shows what made both men tick. In part a celebration of two driven,
charismatic and hard-nosed characters, If You're Second You Are
Nothing is also a poignant evocation of men not knowing how to let
go of the game to which they have given so much.
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