Shankly signed a boy called Jack Whitham. He was always getting injured. Training for Jack was like jogging in between injuries. He was driving Shanks mad because he hated people who were like that. Finally he said one day to Jack in training, 'You, go up to the corner (where the pigsty was) and train up there. I don't want you to contaminate the rest of the team.' Poor Jack was jogging up there in the pigsty with the smell of the pigs and all that.
- En av Ian St Johns favorithistorier om Bill Shankly
27 maj 1981: Liverpool vinner Europacupen för tredje gången efter 1-0 mot Real Madrid i Paris. Lille vänsterbacken Alan Kennedy blir sensationell matchhjälte.