The Reds exploded into English football in the late ’60s and early ’70s under the management of Bill Shankly. Shankly, the man who has come to symbolize the club’s passion and dominance, made it his goal to take the team from the depths of the second division to the pantheon of world football. When he took the reins in 1959, Shankly began setting the foundations for what would be possibly the greatest dynasty in English football. Along with 3 League Championships, 2 FA Cups, and 1 UEFA Championship, the Scot made lasting improvements to the training facilities of Melwood and instilled the unrelenting mentality of the squads that would fill the dressing room for generations to come. Shankly said of his goal to take the club to prominence: “My idea was to build Liverpool into a bastion of invincibility.”

Although Shankly was not at the helm of the club for the pinnacle of Liverpool’s success, he built the framework. When he handed control of the club to Bob Paisley for the '74/'75 season, he was giving Paisley a weapon of mass destruction that would tear through England and across Europe for the next decade.