Past managersMatt McQueen

The Reds were top of the table and battling to retain the title, so it needed to be the right choice if they were to succeed.

Up stepped 60-year-old Matt McQueen, a former Liverpool player who would not only keep the team on course for back-to-back championships but also remain in the dugout for the next five years.

McQueen and his brother Hugh had been two of the many Scotsmen recruited by John McKenna shortly after Liverpool were founded in 1892 following Everton's decision to move from Anfield to Goodison Park.

Both had played in the club's first-ever Football League match, against Middlesbrough Ironopolis in September 1893.

When his playing days were over, McQueen took the qualifications necessary to become a Football League referee and officiated as a linesman for a brief period in 1904.

Towards the end of the First World War, he was appointed to become a director on Liverpool's board, and then eventually took over team affairs in 1923.

However, after the successive title triumphs of 1922 and 1923, the club's fortunes declined somewhat with finishes of 12th, fourth, seventh and ninth.

The 1927-28 campaign would prove to be the last straw for McQueen and he resigned midway through the season with the Reds just about managing to avoid relegation.

He had tragically lost a leg in a road accident in the early 1920s and his health deteriorated further by the end of the decade.

Before he stood down, though, McQueen made one of Liverpool's most significant signings ever, when he brought in South African Gordon Hodgson.

A wonderful striker of the ball, Hodgson would go on score nearly 250 senior goals for the club in fewer than 400 appearances.