Bill Shankly is number 19 in 90min's Top 50 Great Managers of All Time series. Follow the rest of the series over the course of the next four weeks. You can find Robbie Copeland's Shankly career overview here.
Bill Shankly's 15-year spell as Liverpool manager is credited with rebuilding the club from scratch, but he only managed it with a little help from some of the greatest players to ever take to the Anfield pitch.
The Scot used a combination of first-class recruitment and promotion of youth to create the foundations on which future managers would build to dominate the English and European football landscape.