As much as Liverpool have been blessed with some legendary managers over the years, the quality of the staff behind the scenes at Anfield is often said to have been also highly influential in the club’s successes.
The arrival of Bill Shankly in December 1959 is widely seen as the most pivotal moment in LFC history with the iconic Scot galvanising a club which had gone stale and become mired in the doldrums of the Second Division.
Yet as much Shankly faced a huge job to revitalise the Reds on and off the field, he later acknowledged one of his most crucial decisions was identifying the calibre of people like Bob Paisley and Joe Fagan already on the books and keeping them on.
