14 Nov 2025 23:30:53
Someone send me a video earlier, about Chris Lawler asking Shankly for tickets for a cup final for Ringo Starr. Shankly said no. Lawyer asked why not its for Ringo Star, Shanks said have you ever seen Ringo Starr in the Kop, Lawler said no, Shanks said neither have i, Them tickets is for the fans that go the games ?.
15 Nov 2025 08:35:53
Nice story @Strom, reminded me of the other story about the two of them. Shanks liked to play in the 5-a-sides at the end of the training sessions and Chris Lawler who was a very quiet fella by nature was reffing a game when Shanks scored a dubious goal that would have been the winner.
Anyway, Shanks turned around and said to Lawler ‘that was onside right? ’ And Chris Lawler said ‘no you were offside’.
‘Great’ says Shanks ‘you haven’t spoken for years and the first thing you say is a lie’.
15 Nov 2025 10:15:52
WDW - I might of misread a story over the years about Tommy Lawerence not saving a penalty in a practice training session in which shanks was one of the penalty takers and allegedly telling lawerence that if it was a meat pie he would of saved it!
Sorry if it’s wide of the mark but you other old uns might know different! ??.
15 Nov 2025 11:03:46
I heard that but it was about if it was under the crossbar ( no nets)
15 Nov 2025 11:18:23
Wdw . that's funny, Shanks seemed to have everything in his locker didn't he . Chris Lawlers niece was in my class in junior school n Lawler n his Mrs came in from time to time to pick her up. looking back I can't remember him speaking much.
15 Nov 2025 20:43:33
@Chrissy, that was the version I heard. Back in the 70’s I went out for a while with the daughter of the players in the 60s and I got to meet a few of the past and present players at the time.
To a kid who was in awe they were all like giants to me (they still are when I look back they still are) and I can say that Chris Lawler was a aquifer fella by nature.
15 Nov 2025 20:57:20
@Strom, I was lucky enough, not necessarily to meet him, but to be at social events that he was attending. He just had an aura around him, to me as a young lad. I wish I had a story about him but at 5he time I was just dumbstruck and never took the chance to speak to him.