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Gerard Houllier: A fine decent man, destined to manage Liverpool By Phil McNultyChief football writer Last updated on Gerard Houllier won a treble of cups with Liverpool in 2001 Gerard Houllier, who has died aged 73, may just have been destined to manage his beloved Liverpool Football Club. Houllier came to Anfield on a joint-management ticket with incumbent Roy Evans on 16 July 1998 - but the seeds of his arrival were sown 30 years earlier when he stood on the Kop watching Bill Shanklys great...

Liverpool owe Gerard Houllier so much as inevitable legacy led to Jurgen Klopp Ian Doyle pays tribute to Liverpool legend Gerard Houllier who has passed away at the age of 73 17:50, 14 DEC 2020 Updated The video will auto-play soon8Cancel Play now Bill Shankly transformed Liverpool into a bastion of invincibility. Bob Paisley tweaked the Reds into a ruthless trophy-winning machine. But there’s little doubt the origins of success in the modern era at Anfield can be traced back to Gerard Houll...

Photo by B Kanaris/Liverpool FC/Liverpool FC via Getty Images I have a confession to make. Liverpool FC isn’t the first club I supported. As a little brother to a United-supporting elder brother, I flew my Anything But United (ABU) credentials proudly. When Blackburn Rovers challenged (and eventually pipped) them for the title in 1995, I gleefully adopted them as my team to rub salt into his wounds. Little did I know that Alan Shearer was about to depart, and United would win the title anothe...