When Roy Evans was appointed Liverpool’s manager in 1994, it was seen as a welcome return to tradition. “The Anfield traditions go back before Shankly,” Evans said when he was appointed, “but he brought with him a set of principles of how football should be played. Over the years we have tried to stick to that.” Evans represented, it was said, “the last of the boot room boys.” The boot room was an unassuming place which only reenforced its mythology. It was a small little room with equipment and, well, boots where the Liverpool management team would entertain the opposing…

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