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| full_name = Joseph Francis Fagan
| birth_date = {{birth date|1921|3|12|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Walton, Liverpool]], England
| death_date = {{death date and age|2001|6|30|1921|3|12|df=y}}
| death_place = Liverpool, England
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| years5 = 1953–1954
| years6 = 1954–1955
| clubs1 = [[Earlestown Bohemians F.C.|Earlestown Bohemians]]
| clubs2 = [[Manchester City F.C.|Manchester City]]
| clubs4 = [[Nelson F.C.|Nelson]]
| clubs5 = [[Bradford (Park Avenue) A.F.C.|Bradford Park Avenue]]
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'''Joseph Francis Fagan''' (12 March 1921 – 30 June 2001) was an English [[association football|footballer]] and [[manager (association football)|manager]]. He was a coach and manager at [[Liverpool F.C.|Liverpool]] for twenty seven years under [[Bill Shankly]] and  [[Bob Paisley]]. As a manager he was the first English manager to win three major trophies in a single season and is one of only four English managers to win the [[European Cup and UEFA Champions League records and statistics|European Cup]]. He played for [[Manchester City F.C.|Manchester City]] in the [[Football League First Division]] as a [[wing half]]. As his playing career came to an end, he decided to become a [[coach (association football)|coach]] and worked at clubs in lower leagues before getting the chance to join Liverpool in 1958.

From December 1959, he worked with [[Bill Shankly]] and [[Bob Paisley]] and was highly successful in his coaching of the club's reserve team, being mainly responsible for the development of future star players like [[Roger Hunt]], [[Ian Callaghan]] and [[Tommy Smith (footballer, born 1945)|Tommy Smith]]. After Shankly retired in 1974, Fagan became assistant manager to Paisley and finally manager himself when Paisley retired in 1983. In his first season, Fagan achieved an unprecedented "treble" as Liverpool won the [[UEFA Champions League|European Cup]], the [[List of English football champions|League Championship]] and the [[Football League Cup|League Cup]]. He had decided to retire at the end of his second season but his final match in charge was the [[1985 European Cup Final]] which was the scene of the [[Heysel Stadium disaster]], an event that caused him great distress.

Fagan was an uncomplicated man who believed in the simplicity of football, a devoted family man who preferred to just get on with his job and shun the limelight. He was one of the most respected figures in the game. He and his family lived in the same house not far from [[Anfield]] throughout his Liverpool career and afterwards. He died of cancer in 2001, aged eighty.

==Early life==
Joe Fagan was born in [[Walton Centre|Walton Hospital]] in [[Walton, Liverpool|Walton]], [[Liverpool]], on 12 March 1921 and lived in the [[Litherland]] and [[Scotland Road]] areas of the city during his childhood and youth.{{citation needed|date=January 2018}} His parents Patrick and Mary were of Irish descent.<ref>Fagan & Platt, p. 1.</ref> His father has been recorded as something of a dubious character who was often absent for long periods and Fagan owed a happy childhood to his mother. The close proximity of [[Anfield]] and [[Goodison Park]] meant that [[association football|football]] was always a significant part of his life and he developed his ability as a boy.<ref>Fagan & Platt, pp. 2–3.</ref> When he was fourteen, he captained his school, St Elizabeth Central, to the ''Daily Dispatch'' Trophy, a competition run by the [[Lancashire County Football Association|Lancashire Schools Football Association]].<ref>Fagan & Platt, p. 3.</ref>

After leaving school in 1937, Fagan signed for the [[St Helens, Merseyside|St Helens]]-based Earlestown Bohemians club, known as the "Bohs", who played in the [[Liverpool County Combination]]. This was a strong amateur league in which the "A" (third) teams of both [[Everton F.C.|Everton]] and [[Liverpool F.C.|Liverpool]] competed.<ref name=AF>Andrew Fagan via Google Books (book on order)</ref> Liverpool became interested and he was invited to Anfield for a trial. Manager [[George Kay (footballer)|George Kay]] offered him a contract but Fagan, then aged seventeen, declined as he thought his first team opportunities at Liverpool would be limited.{{citation needed|date=January 2018}} On 8 October 1938, he signed for [[Manchester City F.C.|Manchester City]].<ref name=AF/> Throughout Fagan's playing career, he was a [[right half]], though he could also play at [[centre half]].<ref group=nb name="wing group=nb">The position of [[wing half]] is now obsolete in football terminology but it was a key role at the time of Fagan's career when teams routinely played in a [[2–3–5 formation]]. The wing halves (right and left) played outside the [[centre half]] in the middle three. Although some wing halves were more creative than defensive, Fagan's job was to win the ball and move it forward, so he was the equivalent of what is called a [[holding midfielder]] in 21st century football.</ref> In the 1938–39 season, Fagan made good progress at City playing for the club's "A" and "B" teams and then getting into the reserves. He was challenging for a first-team place when the Second World War began just as the 1939–40 season was getting under way and the Football League was suspended for the duration of the conflict.<ref name="F&P13">Fagan & Platt, p. 13.</ref>

==Second World War==
As Fagan, then aged eighteen, was not immediately eligible to join the armed forces, City gave him permission to play for [[Hyde United F.C.|Hyde United]] in the [[Cheshire County League]] which was not subject to the same wartime restrictions as the Football League, although it continued for only one season and was suspended in 1940. Fagan and his City teammate [[Billy Walsh (Irish footballer)|Billy Walsh]] made their debuts for Hyde on 13 October 1939, taking part in a 2–1 victory over [[Stalybridge Celtic F.C.|Stalybridge Celtic]].{{citation needed|date=January 2018}} Fagan played a total of 26 games for Hyde and earned good reviews in the local press. Hyde had a successful season and won the Cheshire League's East Section but lost the two-legged championship playoff against West Section winners [[Runcorn F.C. Halton|Runcorn]].<ref>Fagan & Platt, p. 14.</ref> Fagan returned to City for the 1940–41 season in which [[Football League North and South|regionalised leagues]] were tentatively launched. He made his debut for City in the opening North Regional League match, which was a goalless draw at home to [[Everton F.C.|Everton]] and played five matches in all before he became due for [[Conscription in the United Kingdom|military service]].<ref name="F&P15">Fagan & Platt, p. 15.</ref>

He opted to volunteer rather than wait to be called up as this gave him a choice of services and so he was able to join the [[Royal Navy]]. He had never been to sea previously and immediately discovered that he was prone to [[seasickness]]. He was sent to Egypt where he worked as a [[telegraphist]] with a [[minesweeping]] [[flotilla]] and remained there until 1946. Many of the men he trained with were posted to the ill-fated {{HMS|Hood|51|6}} and Fagan always counted himself lucky to have missed that posting.<ref name="F&P15"/> He was very interested in [[boxing]] and was a useful practitioner during his naval career until he had his nose broken.<ref name="F&P16"/> He played football for various service teams in [[Alexandria]], one of his teams winning a competition called the Chrystall Cup in January 1946, only a few days before he returned to Britain to be [[demobilised]].<ref name="F&P16">Fagan & Platt, p. 16.</ref> During periods of leave in England, Fagan had managed to represent City in six regional league matches, including a [[local derby]] against [[Manchester United F.C.|Manchester United]]; and he had also played for [[Portsmouth F.C.|Portsmouth]].<ref name="F&P17">Fagan & Platt, p. 17.</ref>

==Manchester City ==
When league football resumed after the war, Fagan hoped to establish himself as a regular member of the Manchester City side. The team were then in the [[Football League Second Division]]. Managed by [[Wilf Wild]], City were promotion favourites, especially as they included notable pre-war players like captain [[Sam Barkas]], goalkeeper [[Frank Swift]] and inside forward [[Alex Herd]]. They got off to a winning start but in November there was a change of manager and [[Sam Cowan]], City's pre-war captain, took over.<ref name="F&P17"/> Cowan was an innovator keen to make changes and one of these, on 1 January 1947 against [[Fulham F.C.|Fulham]] at [[Maine Road]], was to give Joe Fagan his official Manchester City debut more than eight years after he had joined the club. Fagan was then 25 and he played at right-half, making a creditable performance as City won 4–0.<ref name="F&P18">Fagan & Platt, p. 18.</ref> He played a key role in City's 1946–47 Second Division Championship-winning team and went on to make 121 consecutive league appearances from debut until November 1949.<ref name="TM60">Matthews, p. 60.</ref> Tony Matthews recorded views of Fagan's "solid worth" to City in terms of his "positional judgment, strong headwork (''sic'') and general reliability".<ref name="TM60" />

Fagan was, therefore, an established member of the first team when City returned to the [[Football League First Division|First Division]] in 1947–48 and was an ever-present through that season and the next. He was a popular figure at Maine Road due to his strong team ethic, loyalty to the cause and an ever-ready smile, qualities that were to serve him well in his later coaching and management career.<ref name="F&P20">Fagan & Platt, p. 20.</ref> His friend Frank Swift gave him the nickname "Patsy", a reference to the Irish folk song ''Hallo Patsy Fagan''.<ref name="F&P21">Fagan & Platt, p. 21.</ref> In a match in November 1947, Fagan met his future colleague [[Bob Paisley]] for the first time when they played against each other in City's 2–0 win over Liverpool at Maine Road. City finished tenth that season, one place above Liverpool.<ref name="F&P22">Fagan & Platt, p. 22.</ref> In 1948–49, under new manager [[Jock Thomson]], City finished seventh.

In the [[1948–49 in English football|1948–49 season]], Fagan was again an ever-present as City finished seventh under new manager [[Jock Thomson]]. The [[1949–50 in English football|1949–50 season]] was a poor one for City and, with two thirds of the matches played, City had won only five. Thomson was dismissed and, at the end of season, the club were relegated. In 1951, he sustained a broken leg and, aged 30, was forced to consider his future career options. He had played in 138 games for City and scored two goals. He decided to leave City and take up [[coach (sport)|coaching]].{{citation needed|date=January 2018}}

Fagan began his coaching career at [[Nelson F.C.|Nelson]] in the [[Lancashire Combination]] as player-manager, where he led the club to the 1951–52 championship in his first full season in charge. Simultaneously, he worked in a factory checking gas meters for leaks.{{citation needed|date=January 2018}} Nelson applied for re-election to [[the Football League]] but were unsuccessful.{{citation needed|date=January 2018}} Fagan moved on and made a brief return to the Football League as a player, making three appearances for [[Bradford Park Avenue F.C.|Bradford Park Avenue]] in 1953 and then had a spell playing for [[Altrincham F.C.|Altrincham]].{{citation needed|date=January 2018}}

==Rochdale==
Fagan became assistant manager at [[Rochdale A.F.C.|Rochdale]] in 1954, serving under future [[Everton F.C.|Everton]] manager [[Harry Catterick]] until 1958. In addition to coaching, he took on numerous other duties at [[Spotland]], such as doing the laundry and marking the pitches.{{citation needed|date=January 2018}}

==Liverpool==
Following a recommendation by Catterick, Fagan was approached by [[Liverpool F.C.|Liverpool]] manager [[Phil Taylor (footballer, born 1917)|Phil Taylor]] about a coaching role and he accepted. The family moved into a house near Anfield where they remained for the rest of Fagan's life.{{citation needed|date=January 2018}}

===Reserve team coach (1958 to 1971)===
[[Bill Shankly]] joined Liverpool as manager in December 1959. Upon arriving at Anfield, Shankly was delighted to find Fagan on the coaching staff because, when manager of [[Grimsby Town F.C.|Grimsby Town]] in the early 1950s, he had tried to sign Fagan as a player. Shankly's first words to Fagan at Anfield were: "You must have been a good player, Joe, because I tried to sign you".<ref>Shankly & Roberts</ref> On his first day in charge, Shankly held a meeting with the coaching staff which consisted of [[Bob Paisley]], [[Reuben Bennett]] and Fagan to tell them that he was not bringing in his own coaches. He wanted to work with them and so guaranteed them their jobs – Fagan was confirmed as reserve team coach. Shankly pointed out that he would decide the training strategy and they must all work together with absolute loyalty to each other and to the club.<ref>Kelly, p. 141.</ref> Under Phil Taylor, training had been the traditional slog of physical exercise and road running. Shankly insisted on training which was "based on speed and using the ball" with everything done on grass.<ref name="SK145"/> Five-a-side games were introduced as a key part of the strategy. Fagan had been keen on training with the ball at Nelson and was, like Paisley and Bennett, delighted to implement Shankly's methods.<ref name="SK145">Kelly, p. 145.</ref>

Training strategy was key to Liverpool's success in the 1960s and afterwards. There was more to it than using the ball and playing five-a-side matches. Influenced by Paisley, Fagan and Bennett, Shankly cottoned on to the importance of allowing players to cool down after training before having a bath or shower. Paisley, as a trained physiotherapist, argued that a person needs to cool down for about 40 minutes after heavy exercise because, if they go into a bath while still sweating, their pores remain open and they are more susceptible to chills and strains. Fagan had advocated getting changed at Anfield before going via team bus to the club's training complex at [[Melwood]]. They would return to bathe, change and eat. This routine satisfied the need for a cooling-down period and had the added advantages of encouraging team bonding during the two journeys and ensuring familiarity with Anfield, an important need for them as home team. Everton, by contrast, did everything at their [[Bellefield]] training complex and their players only went to [[Goodison Park]] for home matches every two weeks or so. Shankly claimed that the cooling-down period resulted in "an astonishing lack of injuries over many seasons". For example, in 1965–66, when Liverpool won the league title and reached the [[UEFA Cup Winners' Cup|European Cupwinners Cup]] final, they only used 14 players in the entire season.<ref>Kelly, p. 231.</ref>

As coach of Liverpool's reserve team, Fagan helped nurture the talents of youngsters like [[Roger Hunt]], [[Ian Callaghan]] and [[Tommy Smith (footballer, born 1945)|Tommy Smith]]. During Shankly's time as manager, the role of reserve team coach became one of the most critical jobs at Anfield as a key part of Shankly's strategy was to transform the reserves into "a kindergarten for future stars".<ref name="SK139"/> Though using irony, Shankly emphasised this when he famously said that "the city of Liverpool is blessed with not one, but two great football teams – Liverpool and Liverpool reserves".{{citation needed|date=January 2018}}

===The "Boot Room"===
Fagan is credited with converting a storage area at Anfield into a "common room" for the coaches and it became the now-legendary [[The Boot Room|Boot Room]]. Shankly held daily meetings in there with Fagan, Paisley and Bennett to discuss strategy, tactics, training and players.<ref>Fagan & Platt, pp. 53–54.</ref>

===First team coach (1971 to 1979)===
In 1971, Fagan was promoted to work as a coach with the first team. Bill Shankly retired in the summer of 1974 and was succeeded by Bob Paisley. Fagan continued to work as first team coach.{{citation needed|date=January 2018}}

===Assistant manager (1979 to 1983)===
In 1979, Fagan became Paisley's assistant manager. Quiet and unassuming, he was renowned throughout football for his ability as a coach and [[Bobby Robson]] once rated him the best in the game, when interviewed during the early eighties.{{citation needed|date=January 2018}}

===Appointment as Liverpool manager===
After Paisley retired, Fagan was appointed as manager on 1 July 1983, despite his initial reluctance to take on the role. [[Ian Rush]] confirmed Fagan's reluctance but said the same had been true of Paisley on his appointment in 1974. Club policy was, as Rush put it, "to appoint from within and ensure continuity, but only if the right man for the job was already on the staff".<ref>Rush, p. 164.</ref> Paisley had told the board that Fagan was the right man because he knew the players and the game, though he admitted that Fagan had never shown any ambition to take on the role.<ref>Rush, p. 165.</ref>

===1983–84 season===
In the [[1983–84 Liverpool F.C. season|1983–84]] season, Fagan's first as Liverpool manager, the team won the [[UEFA Champions League|European Cup]], the [[List of English football champions|League Championship]] and the [[Football League Cup|League Cup]] and so Fagan was the first manager of an English club to win a treble, three major trophies in a single season. He had quickly expanded his squad with the signings of [[Michael Robinson (footballer)|Michael Robinson]] and [[Gary Gillespie]]. His first game in charge ended in defeat, at the hands of [[Manchester United F.C.|Manchester United]] in the [[FA Charity Shield]], but the first silverware was received following victory over Everton in the League Cup Final replay at Maine Road. The Championship was secured with a game to spare and then Liverpool won a penalty shoot-out against [[A.S. Roma]] in Rome to clinch the club's fourth European Cup. Fagan won the [[LMA Manager of the Year|Manager of the Year award]].{{citation needed|date=January 2018}}

===1984–85 season===
Soon afterwards, Liverpool's captain [[Graeme Souness]] left the club for Sampdoria. Repeating the success of the 1983–84 season was always going to be difficult and Fagan signed [[Denmark national football team|Danish]] [[midfielder]] [[Jan Mølby]], [[John Wark]], [[Paul Walsh]] and [[Kevin MacDonald (footballer)|Kevin MacDonald]]. Liverpool finished second behind Everton in the [[1984–85 Liverpool F.C. season|1984–85]] season but reached the [[1985 European Cup final|European Cup final]] again. They were also beaten in an [[1984–85 FA Cup|FA Cup]] semi-final replay by eventual winners [[Manchester United F.C.|Manchester United]], meaning that they had been in contention for three major trophies that season, but ultimately would not win a major trophy; the first time in a decade that they had finished a season without silverware.

===Retirement announced===
On 29 May 1985, Fagan announced he would retire and was succeeded by [[Kenny Dalglish]] (who would continue as [[player-coach]]). In Dalglish's autobiography, he claims that Fagan was left a haunted man for the rest of his life after witnessing the [[Heysel Stadium disaster]]. Never one to court the limelight, Fagan stepped back into anonymity following his retirement but continued to visit both Anfield and Melwood on a regular basis and was always on hand with words of advice for his successors.

==Personality ==
[[Stephen F. Kelly]], in Shankly's biography, describes Fagan as "a rubber-faced character, as Liverpudlian as the Liver Bird... the psychologist, the genial scouser, full of Liverpool humour and always grinning". He praised Fagan's man management as he "knew when to kick backsides or when to put an arm around a player".<ref>Kelly, p. 138.</ref> [[Ronnie Moran]] remembered Fagan as "what the bootroom was all about" and he "never met a nicer, more straightforward fellow" because Fagan was "never interested in the fancy side of football and never looked for the glamour or the glory".<ref name="SK139">Kelly, p. 139.</ref>

Fagan was also a motorcar enthusiast.{{citation needed|date=March 2014}}

==Personal life  ==
Fagan met his future wife Lillian (Lil) Poke soon after he joined Manchester City in October 1938 and they were married two years later, during the war, before he joined the Navy.<ref name="F&P13"/> Their first child was born in June 1945 while he was stationed in Egypt and in all he and Lil raised six children together, five sons and a daughter.<ref name="F&P17"/> Throughout his time at Liverpool and until his death the family lived in the same modest house, 42 Lynholme Road, just a short walk away from Anfield stadium.<ref>Fagan & Platt.</ref>

Fagan died of cancer on 30 June 2001, aged 80. He was buried at [[Anfield Cemetery]], near Liverpool's stadium.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/php/famous.php?page=cem&FScemeteryid=638757 |title=Anfield Cemetery and Crematorium |publisher=Find a Grave |access-date=13 January 2014}}</ref> His wife Lil outlived Joe by nearly a decade, dying on 4 October 2010 at the age of 92 in a [[Lincolnshire]] nursing home.<ref>{{cite web |author=Laura Jones |url=http://www.crosbyherald.co.uk/news/crosby-news/2010/10/08/tributes-paid-as-liverpool-fc-legend-joe-fagan-s-widow-lil-dies-100252-27427028/ |title=Tributes paid as Liverpool FC legend Joe Fagan's widow Lil dies |work=Crosby Herald |date=8 October 2010 |access-date=13 January 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140114032905/http://www.crosbyherald.co.uk/news/crosby-news/2010/10/08/tributes-paid-as-liverpool-fc-legend-joe-fagan-s-widow-lil-dies-100252-27427028/ |archive-date=14 January 2014 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

==Honours==

===As a player===
;Manchester City
* [[Football League Second Division|Second Division Promotion]]: [[1946–47 Football League|1946–47]]

===As a manager===
;Liverpool
* [[Football League First Division]]: [[1983–84 Football League|1983–84]]
* [[Football League Cup|League Cup]]: [[1984 Football League Cup Final|1983–84]]
* [[European Cup ]]: [[1984 European Cup final|1983–84]]

===Managerial statistics===
{| class="wikitable"
!Team
!From
!To
!G
!W
!D
!L
!Win%
|-
|Liverpool
|1 July 1983
|29 May 1985
|131
|71
|36
|24
|54.2
|}

===As an individual===
* [[LMA Manager of the Year|English Manager of the Year]] (1) : [[1983–84 Football League|1983–84]]

==See also==
* [[List of European Cup and UEFA Champions League winning managers]]
* [[List of English football championship winning managers]]

==Footnotes==
<references group="nb" />

==References==
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* {{cite book |last=Andrews |first=Gordon |title=The ''Datasport'' Book of Wartime Football 1939–46 |year=1989 |publisher=Datasport }}
* {{cite book |last1=Fagan |first1=Andrew |last2=Platt |first2=Mark |title=Joe Fagan – Reluctant Champion |year=2011 |publisher=Aurum Press |location=London |isbn=978-1-84513-550-8}}
* {{cite book |last=Hughes |first=Simon |title=Geoff Twentyman: Secret Diary of a Liverpool Scout |year=2009 |publisher=Trinity Mirror Sport Media |location=Liverpool |isbn=978-1-906802-00-4}}
* {{cite book |last=Keith |first=John |title=Bob Paisley: Manager of the Millennium |year=2001 |publisher=Robson |location=London |isbn=1-86105-436-X}}
* {{cite book |last=Kelly |first=Stephen F. |author-link=Stephen F. Kelly |title=Bill Shankly: It's Much More Important Than That |year=1997 |publisher=Virgin Books |location=London |isbn=0-7535-0003-5}}
* {{cite book |last1=Kennedy |first1=Alan |last2=Williams |first2=John |title=Kennedy's Way – Inside Bob Paisley's Liverpool |year=2004 |publisher=Mainstream |location=Edinburgh |isbn=1-84596-034-3}}
* {{cite book |last=Liversedge |first=Stan |title=Paisley: A Liverpool Legend |year=1996 |publisher=Soccer Book Publishing Ltd |location=Cleethorpes |isbn=0-947808-85-X}}
* {{cite book |last=Matthews |first=Tony |title=Manchester City: Player by Player |publisher=Amberley Publishing Limited |year=2013 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=85mIAwAAQBAJ&q=MANCHESTER+CITY:+Player+by+Player+By+Tony+Matthews |access-date=9 January 2018}}
* {{cite book |last=Paisley Family |title=The Real Bob Paisley |year=2007 |publisher=Trinity Mirror Sport Media |location=Liverpool |isbn=978-1905-266-26-5}}
* {{cite book |last1=Rush |first1=Ian |last2=Scott |first2=Les |title=Rush: The Autobiography |year=2008 |publisher=Ebury Press |isbn=978-0091-928-704}}
* {{cite book |last=St John |first=Ian |author-link=Ian St John |title=The Saint: My Autobiography |year=2005 |location=London |publisher=Hodder & Stoughton |isbn=0-340-84114-1}}
* {{cite book |last1=Shankly |first1=Bill |last2=Roberts |first2=John |title=Shankly |year=1976 |publisher=Arthur Barker Ltd |location=London |isbn=0-213-16603-8}}
* {{cite book |last=Smith |first=Tommy |author-link=Tommy Smith (footballer, born 1945) |title=Anfield Iron |year=2008 |publisher=Transworld Publishers |location=London |isbn=978-0-593-05958-6}}

==External links==
*{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2013/sep/19/joe-fagan-liverpool-european-cup |title=On Second Thoughts: Joe Fagan |work=The Guardian |date=2013}}

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