Did it feel weird being married to a man who was practically married to Liverpool Football Club?
“No, I never really thought of it like that. I was just married to Bob and that was his life. That was it really. We wished we could spend more time together but because of both of our jobs, we couldn’t really. I was a schoolteacher, so often as term ended as the season was underway but we learned to accept it.” Did your children inherit Bob’s passion for football? “The boys did, yes, but my little girl was younger at the time so she wasn’t interested as much. In fact, Graham at the time would have loved to have gone into football but his dad said that you had to be a very, very good player. Robert, my eldest, is still connected with Quarry Bank. They are all mad on football still.” Ness, Shanks’ widow and Jessie with Joe Fagan on the last day of the Kop in 1994 Graham, as a kid, were you aware of just how famous your dad was? “When he became the manager, that’s when it started to hit home. As a boy living in Liverpool and growing up here, what better job could my dad have than to be m
“No, I never really thought of it like that. I was just married to Bob and that was his life. That was it really. We wished we could spend more time together but because of both of our jobs, we couldn’t really. I was a schoolteacher, so often as term ended as the season was underway but we learned to accept it.” Did your children inherit Bob’s passion for football? “The boys did, yes, but my little girl was younger at the time so she wasn’t interested as much. In fact, Graham at the time would have loved to have gone into football but his dad said that you had to be a very, very good player. Robert, my eldest, is still connected with Quarry Bank. They are all mad on football still.” Ness, Shanks’ widow and Jessie with Joe Fagan on the last day of the Kop in 1994 Graham, as a kid, were you aware of just how famous your dad was? “When he became the manager, that’s when it started to hit home. As a boy living in Liverpool and growing up here, what better job could my dad have than to be m
