Where were you when you heard Bill Shankly was quitting? They still ask old-timers that question sometimes on Merseyside. They still show the footage of Tony Wilson speaking to kids on a street corner near St George’s Hall, telling them the news live on Granada Reports, the camera picking out the bewilderment on their young faces.
There is something haunting about the footage of Kenny Dalglish, hollow-eyed, staring at the floor, when it was announced at a press conference in 1991 that he had resigned as Liverpool manager. Jurgen Klopp spoke into a camera at the club’s training ground to break the news of his departure.