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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Douglas Ernest Livermore | ||
| Date of birth | (1947-12-27)27 December 1947 (age 78) | ||
| Place of birth | Prescot, England | ||
| Position | Midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Bolton Wanderers | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1965–1970 | Liverpool | 16 | (0) |
| 1970–1975 | Norwich City | 114 | (4) |
| 1975 | →AFC Bournemouth (loan) | 10 | (0) |
| 1975–1977 | Cardiff City | 88 | (5) |
| 1977–1980 | Chester | 71 | (6) |
| Total | 299 | (15) | |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1983 | Swansea City (caretaker) | ||
| 1987 | Tottenham Hotspur (Joint caretaker) | ||
| 1992–1993 | Tottenham Hotspur (Joint caretaker) | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Douglas Ernest Livermore (born 27 December 1947) is a former professional football player and manager.
Livermore began his career withLiverpool where he came through the youth system to eventually sign professional forms on 1 November 1965 as an 18-year-old. He made his debut three years later when he appeared as a second-half substitute forTony Hateley on 20 April 1968 in a 1–0 league defeat toWest Ham United atUpton Park. Livermore was unable to replace his rival for the right sided midfield role,Ian Callaghan.
After 18 first team appearances for the Reds, Livermore moved toNorfolk clubNorwich City on 26 November 1970. Doug had a fairly successful time atCarrow Road where he helped the club to win the 1971–72Second Division championship, thus gaining promotion the top flight of English football. He was also part of the City side that lost 1–0 toTottenham Hotspur in the 1973League Cup final, the first time the Canaries had reached aWembley showpiece final. During his spell at Norwich the creative midfielder played 139 times, scoring 6 goals, which would have been a higher figure but for the injuries he endured whilst at Carrow Road.
Livermore spent time atAFC Bournemouth on loan, making ten appearances, before he signed forCardiff City in August 1975. Whilst atNinian Park he played 88 times scoring 5 goals. Livermore then joinedChester in October 1977 and was a regular until the end of the1978–79 season, appearing 71 times and scoring six goals. Livermore was a key part of the Chester side that finished fifth inDivision Three (now League One) in1977–78, their highest finish in the last 60 years.
Chester would prove to be the final port of call in his playing career, as he retired and took up his first position in coaching back at Ninian Park with Cardiff.
After two years at Cardiff City, Livermore returned to another of his former clubs Norwich, where he became the Reserve team manager in 1980. Whilst at Norwich he also took a job on the coaching staff ofWales, a job where he had some success at as he helped to guide them to the 1980Home International title.
In August 1981, he moved ontoSwansea City to take up a similar role to the one he had just left. He had joined up with another former Liverpool playerJohn Toshack. During his time at Swansea, he had a two-month spell as caretaker manager in 1983 when Toshack left the club.
He was also an assistant ofMike England with theWales national football team during the 1980s.
He then moved onto Spurs where again he was Reserve team manager and also took the role of first team coach in July 1991, when managerTerry Venables became chief executive and first team coachPeter Shreeves became Team Manager.
1991–92 was a disappointing season for defendingFA Cup winners Tottenham. Despite reaching theEuropean Cup Winners' Cup quarter-finals and having strikerGary Lineker score 28 league goals in his final season for the club, their league form was dismal as they suffered 20 defeats and finished 15th in theFirst Division – below much less favoured teams includingWimbledon,Crystal Palace andSheffield United.
Shreeves was axed, and Livermore was promoted to the role of Team Manager for the1992–93 season – the first season of thePremier League. They finished eighth in the Premier league thanks largely to the efforts of 21-goal strikerTeddy Sheringham as well as promising youngsters includingNick Barmby andDarren Anderton, but their hopes of silverware were ended by local rivalsArsenal, who beat them in theFA Cup semi-final and went on to win the trophy.
ChairmanAlan Sugar dismissed Venables at the end of the 1992–93 season, and this also meant the end of the Livermore-Clemence managerial partnership, asOssie Ardiles was appointed manager.
On 28 January 1994, Livermore made a football comeback as assistant toRoy Evans atLiverpool. He helped Evans guide Liverpool toLeague Cup glory in 1995 and to runners-up spot in theFA Cup in 1996, and remained at the club following the appointment ofGérard Houllier as joint manager alongside Evans for the1998–99 season. But Evans did not enjoy his partnership with Houllier, and resigned in November 1998, with Livermore following him out of theAnfield exit door.
Livermore returned to football early in 1999 as joint assistant alongsidePeter Shreeves at Premier League strugglersNottingham Forest, where he worked underRon Atkinson. The management team were unable to save Forest from relegation to Division One, and were axed in favour of formerEngland captainDavid Platt for the1999–2000 season.
Livermore then became assistant manager toBruce Rioch atNorwich City, and was retained for the2000–01 season, when Rioch resigned to make way forBryan Hamilton. Hamilton quit in January to be succeeded byNigel Worthington, and Livermore was part of the management team which secured Norwich's promotion to the Premier League as Division One champions in 2004. However, Norwich's Premier League comeback lasted just one season before they were relegated. Worthington was sacked in the autumn of 2006 after failing to get Norwich back into the Premier League, but Livermore remained atCarrow Road as assistant to new managerPeter Grant, until finally leaving on 9 February 2007 after nearly eight years on the club's coaching staff.
He then linked up withNigel Worthington during the final weeks of the2006–07 season as assistant to Worthington in his role as caretaker manager ofLeicester City. The pair steered Leicester to survival in theFootball League Championship but were not rewarded with long-term contracts and left the club.