01 Jun 2023 16:39:07
An idle question: if you had to get stuck in a lift with a Liverpool manager of the past which one would you want it to be? I'll obviously go with my favourite player (but flawed manager) : Mad Graeme. He'd be having none of it, and would go all John McClane and smash his way out of there, while telling a good story or two.

{Ed001's Note - it would have to be Shanks. Any chance to meet the great man.}

1.) 01 Jun 2023
01 Jun 2023 16:53:19
Not a manager but I believe from his ex team mates autobiographies that if you give Steve Nicol a few bevvies then it turns into all out hilarity. So assuming I have shopping on me I'd give him the beer then let the carnage unfold.

2.) 01 Jun 2023
01 Jun 2023 17:16:22
Anybody but Brendan.

3.) 01 Jun 2023
01 Jun 2023 17:47:03
Spot on, MKS. I hear Hodgson is a really sweet guy outside of football. Rodger’s? He would talk about himself so much I’d end up in a semi coma.

Seriously, I would love to have pint with Jurgen Klopp. Based on the many interviews I seen of him, I feel like I could talk to him about anything. Reminds me a bit if my late dad, tbh.

4.) 01 Jun 2023
01 Jun 2023 19:20:46
You might be able to get more information on his dossier if stuck with Brenden.

5.) 01 Jun 2023
01 Jun 2023 19:23:10
Yeah it would have to be shacks and i think he would probably love to talk football all day.

6.) 01 Jun 2023
01 Jun 2023 19:26:14
On a side note I met John barns few weeks back at tranmere were my daughter was playing and he was lovely. He spoke to everyone no problem had time for all and gave all awards out to the teams. Top bloke??.

7.) 01 Jun 2023
01 Jun 2023 19:35:06
From my time supporting the club we’ve had
Paisley
Kenny
Souness
Roy evans
Houllier
Benitez
Hodgson
Brendan
Kenny
And Klopp
I’d love to ask them all questions apart from hodgson, not that I dislike him. He’s a good manager just he wasn’t right for the club especially after the shambles Benitez left us in. I’d ask houllier wtf he sold fowler! I’d ask Benitez why he wasted millions on rubbish players and what was he thinking driving alonso out. I’d ask Kenny who was the best player he played with and who he managed, I’d also ask him why he bought carrol and not play to his strengths especially when we didn’t play that sort of football in the first place. Paisley was a little too early for me but the two I’d really enjoy sitting down with would be Roy evans. I loved the bloke played great football and the last real manager to do things the Liverpool way, and of course Klopp. Hopefully in a pub with a few beers, he comes across a real character.

8.) 01 Jun 2023
01 Jun 2023 20:09:28
Shankly, without a doubt.

9.) 01 Jun 2023
01 Jun 2023 20:17:18
If it was Bodgers I would ask him whose name was in the envelope.

10.) 01 Jun 2023
01 Jun 2023 20:20:45
Pegleg for post of the year
Amazing. we can all relate to that ?.

11.) 01 Jun 2023
01 Jun 2023 20:27:22
I think a conversation with Roy Hodgson would be fascinating. He managed in England, Sweden, Switzerland, Italy, Norway and Denmark, he managed four different national teams, he managed the likes of Ronaldo, Roberto Carlos, Djorkaeff and Zanetti at Inter. I'm sure he has some great stories.

12.) 01 Jun 2023
01 Jun 2023 20:30:13
Pegleg, you forgot Fagan.

Similar list to mine, other than Bob had stepped down by the time I started supporting us so Joe was my first.

13.) 01 Jun 2023
01 Jun 2023 20:50:12
I think Ronnie Moran needs to be on the list, twice caretaker manager and boot room, deserves mention too imo.

14.) 01 Jun 2023
01 Jun 2023 21:30:21
Bob for me.

15.) 01 Jun 2023
01 Jun 2023 21:47:24
You’re stuck in the lift with Rodgers. And he pulls out the 3 envelopes ?
Sh*t just got real !

16.) 01 Jun 2023
01 Jun 2023 21:30:54
Colin Pascoe for me undefeated as Liverpool manager?. I kid. Rodgers' Suarez squad was exciting, so would want to chat to someone who was in the technical team. Just have no desire to chat to Rodgers.

Roy Evans because his Liverpool team is the first I watched and loved, became a red because of that team.

Klopp of course I'd like to meet over drinks.

Of all of them, the one guy I would want to meet is Paisley. He was before my time. From historical evidence it seems tactically he was brilliant and had some great footballing insight. It's like Liverpool had a humble Pep in him.

17.) 01 Jun 2023
01 Jun 2023 22:01:52
Zeddicus, you’re quite right! I’m blaming age!

18.) 01 Jun 2023
01 Jun 2023 22:18:42
Love those responses. Struck by the Roy Evans fan club…I know his defence was sometimes all over the place, but it’s bonkers he didn’t walk into a job with another top flight club. Correct me if I am wrong, but I think he was the first top flight manager to play 3 at the back? Even before Venables did so at Euro ‘96. That system worked well unless Ruddock or Babb were playing. Think we would have had more fun with Evans remaining instead of GH and then Rafa. Though the cups they won were tasty.

19.) 01 Jun 2023
01 Jun 2023 22:42:33
Interesting that we have had votes for Bob, Fagen, Evans, Shankly, Hodgson (! ) - but not a single one for Kenny. Or Mad Graeme: the latter two the only ones to have won titles elsewhere.

20.) 02 Jun 2023
02 Jun 2023 09:28:37
I actually went to watch matches when Phil Taylor was manager but I was too young to remember so my first real manager was the Shanks. I’d have loved to have been in the original boot room. I’d have been way, way in too much awe to actually ask a question (or even speak) but I’d have loved to listen to a group of absolute giants of the game discussing their thoughts on anything related to the game. Liverpool FC is the best club in the world and it was Shanks, Sir Bob, Uncle Joe, Ronnie Moran, Reuben Bennett and Tom Saunders who laid the foundations. If could go back in time and be in the boot room and pluck up the courage to speak I’d have said ‘thank you’.