The Kop: A Fan’s History

Signed copies of Brian Reade's latest book THE Kop: A Fan’s History of Football’s Most Famous Stand is the latest book by Kopite and SOS member Brian Reade, out on Thursday 8 October. Here, Brian tells us how he came to write it and how you can pick up a signed copy. “The most famous stand in world football has just celebrated a landmark birthday. “On 1 September 1906, Anfield’s Spion Kop burst into life in the middle of a freak heatwave and over the following 120 years, over many nights, it turned the [...]

By |2026-10-02T18:06:05+01:00October 2nd, 2026|
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AGM Motion

From our last AGM EARLIER this year at our AGM, members voted in favour of a motion calling for Spirit of Shankly to join “the thousands of fans worldwide in adding their voice to the campaigns ‘Game over Israel’ and ‘Show Israel The Red Card.” Back in 2024, SOS made a donation to support the work of Ana Jeelani, a paediatric orthopaedic surgeon at Alder Hey Children's Hospital, when she travelled to Gaza to treat people there. You can read about Ana’s experience here or watch her interview with Channel 4 News here. Our support [...]

By |2026-09-10T15:25:04+01:00September 10th, 2026|
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Walking to Rome…

...And meeting the Pope in memory of Brian and Gerard UPDATE On Thursday, 27 August, a group of more than 30 people, Reds and Blues, many of them members of Spirit of Shankly, including management committee member Ian Byrne, left Liverpool for Italy to do a sponsored walk to raise awareness and funds for prostate cancer. The walk, part of the Via Francigena, began in Montefiascone and, over six days, sometimes with temperatures reaching 40C, they walked around 100 miles to Rome. And on Wednesday 2 September, the morning after they arrived in the capital, [...]

By |2026-09-10T11:17:51+01:00August 26th, 2026|
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Between The Lines

Unistar Drama Performance Earlier this month, at the Liverpool Lighthouse, a group of young people gave a compelling, emotive performance of Between The Lines – a play exploring the importance of connection, support and belonging. A community project, organised by Unistar Youth Theatre, supported by Spirit of Shankly and Evolve Youth Theatre, it also involved youngsters from North Liverpool Academy and An Hour for Others. Unistar worked with the groups of young people devising performances about county lines, knife crime, belonging and factors that affect crime and violence. And the importance of community. It was [...]

By |2026-07-31T14:57:31+01:00July 31st, 2026|
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Shankly’s spirit lives on

Brilliant day at Shankly Cup Congratulations to On The Ball Acadamy, winners of the 2026 Shankly Cup The Glasgow side beat last-year's winners, the Steven Gerrard Academy, 1-0 in a tightly fought final that capped a brilliant day. This year's event saw youth teams from Liverpool, Ayrshire, Glasgow, Wrexham and Dublin come together to play a tournament that celebrates Bill Shankly and upholds his principles and values of teamwork, humility, passion and community. And two former Liverpool FC players were on hand to hand out the trophy: Gordon Wallace, who played under Shanks, and two-time [...]

By |2026-07-01T11:32:32+01:00June 29th, 2026|
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