Bill Shankly was the greatest football coach of his time. He had brought the previously unknown Liverpool to a Championship football team level. He had left many famous football famous sayings, the most widely known of which, of course, was, "Football has nothing to do with life and death. Football is much higher than life and death."
However, he abruptly announced his resignation at one of the finest moments of his coaching career and this decision shocked the whole of England at the time. Shankly's argument was that he was going to spend more time with his wife. Seven years later he died of a heart attack.
