“Long, long time Tully reader” Samuel Webster, of Coldside, remembers a football personality appearing on “This Is Your Life”.
For younger readers, This Is Your Life was a BBC programme.
It was a British biographical series, hosted from 1955 until 1987 by Eamonn Andrews, then by Michael Aspel until 2003.
In the show, the host surprises a special guest, before taking them through their life with the assistance of the ‘big red book’.
Sam’s query was: “I remember Liverpool’s legendary manager Bill Shankly being the subject of the programme.
“I distinctly remember, at the end, that an entire Scotland international football team came on — international team-mates of Shankly.
“Which players appeared and why?”
The team that paid tribute to Shankly on that show was the one which beat England in an incredible game.
The Scots beat the Auld Enemy 5-4 at Hampden on April 18, 1942.
There were two hat-tricks in the game — one for Scotland’s Ephraim ‘Jock’ Dodds and the other from England’s Tommy Lawton.
Jimmy Hagen also netted for England, with the home tally being made up with counters from Shankly and Billy Liddell.
Scotland lined up that day — Dawson (Rangers); Carabine (Third Lanark), Beattie (Preston); Shankly (Preston NE), Smith (Preston), Busby (Hibs); Waddell (Rangers), Herd (Manchester City), Dodds (Blackpool), Bremner (Arsenal), Liddell (Liverpool).
The only person not to appear on the TV show was Willie Waddell.
Matt Busby, who was guesting as a wartime player for Hibs, also went on to appear in the show. Indeed, he was the first subject to be honoured on two separate occasions by the show.
There is a school of thought that Shankly later thought he had retired too early from his post at Liverpool.
When he left, his assistant Bob Paisley took over — and the rest, as they say, is history.
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