Never Walk Alone
Liverpool FC is ranked as the most successful football team in the history of English League with a record unprecedented in the national and European competition. However, the club's history is
marked by sadness as much as it is for the celebration.
The early years
Interestingly, this football team a huge success, was born as a result of a dispute rent! Anfield - the home of
Liverpool FC - was originally the home ground of Everton. When they (Everton) won the Championship English Football League in 1891, Anfield owner John Houlding tried to increase their income substantially. When Everton refused to pay, and no agreement was reached, the club went to a new ground at Goodison
Park, leaving only three players back.
Determined to see soccer remain at Anfield, Houlding recruited 13 professional players from Scotland and created the first Liverpool FC.
The club was unable to secure the election of the league until 1893, when they joined the second division. Ending his first season with an undefeated record, was promoted to
division, and have never been lower than the second division again in their history.
Liverpool won their first Football League championship in 1901 and the second only a few years later, in 1906. That same year, a significant expansion of Anfield with snaps
building a huge concrete bench behind the goal home. The bank - called "The Kop 'after a British defeat in the Boer War, where many soldiers died Liverpuddlian - is the sentimental home all fans of Liverpool.
It was not until 1914 that Liverpool played in his first final of the FA Cup, and was 1921 / 2 before they won - although they did then go on to win again next year!
Famous Managers
Greatest football teams are defined in terms of its great players, and of course, Liverpool has had its fair share of stars in recent years. However, directors are more than anyone defined the different eras in the history of Liverpool - starting with the most famous of them all, Bill Shankly.
Shankly joined Liverpool as manager in 1959, when Liverpool are consumed in the second division. Although he had no real experience of managing large teams, it was Shankly who firmly established
Liverpool on the road to success and has established management systems and training managers and later served in the next 30 years or more.
The changing fortunes of Liverpool - and the personal charisma of Shankly - hit the club fielding the best players, including Emlyn Hughes, Kevin Keegan, Ian St John,
John Toshack and Roger Hunt.
Shankly took Liverpool back into the first division in 1962, the season in which Roger Hunt scored a record (to date) 41 goals in the league. First division championships and FA Cup victories
followed through the decades of 1960 and 70, and then came Liverpool's first European trophy (the UEFA Cup) in 1973.
In 1974, Shankly's shock retirement resulted in the promotion of his assistant, Bob Paisley, and the beginning of a new chapter in the history of Liverpool. This continuity of management
may well be one of the secrets of the success of Liverpool, and two of the Paisley player signings - Kenny Dalglish and Graeme Souness - later became managers of the team.
If Shankly is remembered as the Liverpool manager who turned around, Paisley is the manager who made all the payments and the recording that established football to win trophies was unbroken for twenty years after his retirement.
His record in nine years of management:
* 6 Football League Championships
* 3 European Cups
* 1 UEFA Cup
* 3 League Cups (successive years)
* 1 European Super Cup
* 3 Charity Shields
In season 1982 / 3, Liverpool won the League Championship and League Cup for the second consecutive year. After this victory, Bob Paisley retired, handing over to Joe Fagan - another internal promotion to manager at Anfield.
Fagan only stayed two seasons, but they were spectacularly successful seasons, winning the League Championship for the third consecutive year, and Liverpool fourth
European Cup. Just as the team that was established since Shankly, Fagan was able to field players such as Ian Rush, Alan Hansen and goalkeeper Bruce Grobbelaar.
The end of the administrative career of Fagan was also the first of the two great tragedies in the history of Liverpool, when crowd violence led to 39 Juventus fans being crushed by a falling wall at the Heysel stadium in Brussels, Belgium. The occasion was the 1985
European Cup final - which should have been another great night for the club turned to disaster.
The result of six-year ban from European football, meant that the new player-manager Kenny Dalglish had to focus only on domestic competition - and did so with great success. In 1986, Liverpool only the fifth team to achieve the double of the FA Cup and League Championship - a particularly satisfying season for them to beat their local rivals Everton into second place in both competitions. A dip in form the following year took Dalglish to inject new talent in the form of Peter Beardsley, John Barnes and John Aldridge in the attack unit, and followed a return to old glories.
The season 1988 / 9 was the second tragedy in a long history of Liverpool, this time in the FA Cup semifinals. Playing Nottingham Forest at Hillsborough stadium, crowd control
problems led to 96 Liverpool fans being crushed to death, and over 700 wounded.
The end of the ban on Liverpool from European competition ended in 1991, and with it came the departure of Kenny Dalglish. His replacement - Graeme Souness - was another director who
promoted through the ranks at Liverpool. Although home-grown players like Robbie Fowler and Jamie Rednapp were making names for themselves, Souness followed the trend of the day and a great investment in new players from outside - a strategy
not proved successful and Souness was gone in 1994.
Souness was replaced by the last of the internally promoted managers Liverpool - Roy Evans. While Evans played for the team, Liverpool still depends heavily on veterans like Ian
They rush to score goals, although newcomer Robbie Fowler made an impact with a season of 29 goals.
The brightest talents of the game from this period came in the form of young Michael Owen, who plays regularly with the first team from the age of 18 years.
No major trophy success in Roy Evans, Liverpool board drafted in the French coach Gerard Houllier to assist in 1998, but Evans left after another disappointing season,
leaving Houllier in charge.
Returning to the way in 2000 / 1, Liverpool won the incredible treble of League, Cup and UEFA Cup. The construction of the new strength squad with the addition of goalkeeper Jerzy Dudek soccer, midfielder Steven Gerrard and striker Emile Heskey will not bring more trophies to Anfield - despite some successes in the league in 2002 and 2003.
The pace of change in English football, then seemed to leave Houllier's style of management behind, and Valencia, Rafael Benitez replaced him in 2004.
Early indications suggest that Liverpool could be back on the road to major trophy success if their 2005 season in the Champions League is an indication. Playing for AC Milan
final, Liverpool 3-0 down at half time. In the second half, Liverpool defended heroically until the score was 3-3 at the end. Unchanged after a dramatic period of extra time, a penalty shootout, finally resulted in Liverpool winning their fifth European Cup trophy.
Liverpool FC anthem, "Never Walk Alone ', is adorned everywhere - in soccer apparel, badges, stickers and DVDs of countless books and videos - and is an appropriate sentiment
for a team that has endured as a mixture of elation and sadness throughout its history.
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