In July 1974, the great broadcaster Tony Wilson recorded what he later insisted was his favourite piece of news generation in a long, distinguished career. It was of him on the streets of Merseyside with the cameras from local news outlet Granada Reports, breaking the news to distraught Liverpool fans that Bill Shankly had retired. A lifelong Manchester United supporter, Wilson could barely hide his smirk as he informed lads in penny round collars and thick blooms of hair that their much vaunted