Melwood has evolved from ‘desert’ Bill Shankly to a special position where many European Cups have been ‘won’
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An era ends today when Liverpool last worked in Melwood. For 60 years, the West Derby base has been the launch pad for the club’s rise to greatness. The move to Kirkby with his amenities makes sense for Jurgen Klopp and his team, as it brings with it a combination of the first team and the academy, but leave a position in which plans for a football revolution have been planned and developed.
Liverpool bought Melwood between WWI and WWI, but it had hardly been used when Bill Shankly appointed it in 1959. The Scotsman was surprised by Anfield’s condition and worst education floor. The legendary manager first visited it with his wife Ness. There, a crumbling cricket hall and an expanse of unmaintained fields that looked more like a téland.
“It’s just a desert,” Shankly recalls, “but I said to Ness, Well, it’s wonderful and it can develop. At least there’s room here. “
Melwood had barely been used. Until Shankly’s arrival, players trained in the grandstand’s main parking lot. The surface was an aggregate of concrete and asphalt. Running, which accounted for much of football education in the 1950s, took place on the surrounding streets. small gym. These were not situations conducive to the production of giant groups and this can be noticed on the ground.
Before Shankly can fix things the day in shape, he needed to check the team’s preparation. It all started with simple, hard paints and manual hard work in Melwood. The manager and his backroom staff dug rocks from the floor, leveled surfaces and made the pavilion habitable. They started a DIY program to make the educational floor usable. The physical component is the simplest component. Philosophical adjustments to the operation of the club required much more effort.
Liverpool hopes to make room for Melwood
Shankly inherited Bob Paisley, Joe Fagan and Reuben Bennett and hoped to be replaced quickly. Even then, managers liked to surround themselves with their own appointments. Keeping the trio around was arguably the most important of all Shankly’s decisions. They have the core of the trust of boot room brains, the men who would remodel Liverpool for a moment. team in European champions.
“As for the educational staff,” he later wrote, “I had the greatest chance of having a team of first elegance and no compliment can be too important for your efforts. Between us, we began to prepare a plan for the education regimen and the amenities that existed at the time in Melwood.
The ugly and insufficient plot of land 3 miles from Anfield has a melting pot of innovation in the game. Unlike the great thinkers of football at the time, the starting room did not take a universal technique for fitness. “Some other people might think that others players require other training and training, but that’s the case,” Shankly said. One of the most difficult disorders in team-making is measuring Americans’ demands to achieve and maintain optimal fitness.
“Does a kind of light build like Jimmy Melia, for example, require less education than a very muscular guy like Ronnie Moran, or want more?We found out that Moran doesn’t want the amount of paintings Melia wants, despite her Talla.
Klopp, Robertson and Henderson mock Melwood
Moran has become an integral component of Boot Room once he retired as a player. In Melwood, his main barking sergeant sounded all over the grounds.
The collegiate nature of decision-making was explained through Shankly in reference to his delight in World War II. “A tactical consultation is more like a smart concentrated organization in the Forces with me as the officer leading it,” he said. Just as a smart officer found out that he wasn’t the only provider who knew anything about the subject under discussion, I’m looking to participate in a tactical interview.
“I throw the ball, but whoever has something to say knows that he is expected to say it. The Scots chose the right men to fight, and in Melwood they perfected the troops.
Reds will move to Kirkby to unite the whole club
By the time the old cricket hall was replaced by a red brick complex with conversion rooms, a gymnasium and a sauna, a new era for Liverpool began. Alongside personalized education programs, new concepts were constantly discussed to help the team achieve maximum power. Staff kept daily educational records referring to the effects to see if there were emerging identifiable trends. It’s a clumsy form of early analysis, but the attempt to analyze and contextualize preparation forward in your time.
The famous sweat box, where players had to hit numbers on portable shooting forums arranged in squares, remains a fundamental detail of education around the world. Concentrating on playing conditions at a time when many in England were obsessed with running and being fit made Melwood one. of the essential stages of the great excursion so that those who are more informed about coaching.
Melwood has the cradle of cutting-edge educational strategies in England
For a long time, all kinds of visitors were welcome to attend Liverpool’s daily preparation. The young people of the region climbed the walls of cement blocks to sit and pay attention to the sessions and watch the matches of five per side remarkably competitive. Schoolchildren came en masse to pick up autographs as players got on the coach who took them to Anfield every day. The education floor was not only a football lab, but was a social center in a football-obsessed city. In more recent, more cynical years, it has become a position of secrecy, where viewers were discouraged due to increasingly intrusive security; once, however, it was a position where it was imaginable to pass and look behind the curtain of the People’s Game. observers were disappointed: the magic was as strong in Melwood as in Anfield.
It is true that the club moves and joins the total operation of the game on a campus. Shakly would approve. However, part of the game’s story will disappear when the domain is re-developed. The Duke of Wellington allegedly claimed that the Battle of Waterloo had been won on the playing field of Eton. European Cups, Champions Leagues, 14 titles and many other trophies were also won on melwood grounds, a place that occupies a special position in the heritage of football.
Liverpool hopes to make room for Melwood
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Klopp, Robertson and Henderson mock Melwood
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Reds to move to Kirkby to unite the entire club
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Melwood has the cradle of cutting-edge educational strategies in England
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