How Gerard Houllier, the father of modern-day Liverpool, revolutionized a club drowning in nostalgia
DUBAI: There’s a famous banner that Liverpool fans unfurl on the Kop before home games. Above images of Bill Shankly, Bob Paisley, Joe Fagan, Kenny Dalglish and Rafa Benitez, it says: “Success has many fathers.” It has one glaring omission, however. Missing is the man who in many ways is the father of modern-day Liverpool Football Club — Gerard Houllier, who died on Monday at the age of 73. It is often overlooked that the man who himself had stood on the Kop when teaching French in Liverpool during the late 1960s, revolutionized a club that was in danger of drowning in its own nostalg...
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