The Boot Room Boys: The Unseen Story of Anfield's Conquering Heroes

By Peter Hooton

Picture this: Saturday afternoons at Anfield, passionate terraces, a sea of red and Liverpool FC rules the world.

The Boot Room story starts in 1959 when Bill Shankly arrived and converted a 12 x 12storage room into a meeting place for him and his coaches, a move that had momentous consequences, both for the Club and British football.

Fans in the Kop will remember the heart-stopping extra time of the 1965 FA Cup Final, and the jubilation of winning the treble in 1984. But what was the common thread during Liverpool's glory years? It was the Boot Room.

Lifelong Liverpool supporter and editor of legendary fanzine The End, Peter Hooton takes us back into that old storage room, where first Shankly, then Paisley, Fagan and Dalglish in succession, drank tea, analysed, strategized, selected and deselected, and built the most successful British club in Europe in the 20th Century.

Illustrated throughout with powerful never-before-seen images from the Mirror, the Echo and the Liverpool Post, Peter Hooton sheds new light on the story behind Liverpool FC 's most exulted era, and celebrates a city flourishing around it.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0753552272
• ISBN13: 9780753552278
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Virgin Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.9" x 9.8"