Gerard Houllier: 'A fine decent man, destined to manage Liverpool'
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 Shankly's great Liverpool side while teaching French at the nearby Alsop Comprehensive School. He deserves to be...