23 Mar 2019 08:03:02
Did anyone else see France footballs list of all time greatest managers and Bob Paisley's not in the top ten, I've seen a few of these now and he never seems to be in the top few, why do all these polls etc keep overlooking him?

{Ed001's Note - because they are done by people who know f all about football.}

1.) 23 Mar 2019
23 Mar 2019 09:26:27
Paisley won more European cups in 9 years than Ferguson won in 26. He is the greatest ever for me.

{Ed001's Note - agreed. Paisley was incredible.}

2.) 23 Mar 2019
23 Mar 2019 09:49:17
Paisley was the best ever, is the best ever and always will be, the best ever. These daft lists mean bugger all, probably wrote by some 20 year old kid in his bedroom, what it comes down to is the truth of things, history etc and imo there's no touching Paisley, no modern manager is even close and I doubt in my life time I'll ever see it. Let the younger generation believe what they want to believe but the be all and end all is, they haven't got a bloody clue what they're talking about lol.

3.) 23 Mar 2019
23 Mar 2019 10:38:11
For me he's the best, I even named my son Bobby after him 😁.

4.) 23 Mar 2019
23 Mar 2019 10:56:48
We live in an age of revisionism and short term thinking. People are now questioning that Cruyff, Pele and Maradona aren’t the greatest that ever played because they didn’t feature in FIFA or saw them on Sky, it’s ridiculous. The idiots are winning.

5.) 23 Mar 2019
23 Mar 2019 11:37:35
Precisely FranklyMrShankly. People are far more interested in revising history, than in making it. Shallow thinking.

6.) 23 Mar 2019
23 Mar 2019 11:38:11
Agreed that Paisley at 26 is ridiculous.
Shankly is at 10, though how Guardiola is at 5 already is beyond me.
Paisley somewhere in the top 10, although I agree with Michels heading the list.
It’s terribly difficult to choose between Shankly and Paisley, never mind the others.
Though for what he built and stood for, Shankly will always be our King.

7.) 23 Mar 2019
23 Mar 2019 14:25:39
Well Frankly, OBVIOULSY how you compare Pele to a current player is based on his 'icon' FIFA Ultimate Team card. Looking at footage of him play? Reading about him? Listening to what other pros said? Nah. Who needs any of that?

If he doesn't score you as many goals as the Cristiano Ronaldo Team of the Week card that you got after opening 400 quid's worth of packs that you bought with Mommy's credit card then he's clearly not as good.

8.) 23 Mar 2019
23 Mar 2019 14:41:39
Who were our worst ever managers?

9.) 23 Mar 2019
23 Mar 2019 18:31:18
JK- I think Souness set us back a long way
Hodgson up there too

However there were probably some horrors before my time that- as people have alluded to above- we don’t look at.

10.) 23 Mar 2019
23 Mar 2019 18:57:08
Paisley was genius unfortunately he's career was/ will always be overshadowed by another maestro in Shanks.

11.) 23 Mar 2019
23 Mar 2019 20:03:40
Adrian Durham gave his top 5 all time coaches across all sports on the radio the other day, he had Paisley as number 1.

12.) 23 Mar 2019
23 Mar 2019 22:28:40
France Football prolly never heard of the great Bob Paisley. Paisley is simply the best. had he coached as long as Gergie did, he could prolly have won near 40 trophies.

13.) 24 Mar 2019
24 Mar 2019 08:34:35
It’s too vague a question - again!
You need to break it down into international football and club football. How do you compare the 2? I don’t know!

Club football - Paisley is definitely in everyone’s top 5.

14.) 24 Mar 2019
24 Mar 2019 11:27:46
Paisley for me. Shanks was/ is a true legend but Paisley took on a seemingly impossible task and bettered it, we’ve seen what happened since.

One thing I read when he was in charge, ‘Liverpool rarely make a bad buy’. Neal, Hansen, Souness, Dalglish ect etc.

Genius. And such a modest Unassuming man. Respect.

YMWA ed.