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LARRY RYAN: Controvassy in a world gone mad

Just as he knew best about most things, it seems Shankly was right again.

LARRY RYAN: Controvassy in a world gone mad

Sat, 26 Jan, 2013 - 00:00

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The word is there were no ballboys at Anfield because Shanks felt ballboys made footballers lazy.

As the Book of Proverbs warns us; laziness is a shortcut to ruin. “One who is slack in his work is brother to one who destroys.”

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