Liverpool FC - Trophy Winning Political Facts

As Nick & Dave have been dominating the news for the past 7 days I thought I would combine 2 of my interests - LFC and Politics - and see what the result was.

I hope you are all bracing yourselves, given the strong socialist roots of Liverpool, because the facts are that of our 18 league titles, 14 of them
(78%) have been won under Governments that have been Conservative, Liberal or Coalition with only 4 titles coming when a Labour government has been in power.

Furthermore, if we class the 'Major' trophies as either league, European Cup, League Cup, EUEFA Cup or FA Cup, then LFC have won 40 major trophies in
their illustrious history, of which 26 (65%) have been won under non-Labour governments.

11 of our titles have been won in odd numbered years(61%).

Moving on to the subject of players, every single title winning side from the first in 1901 right through to the last, in 1990, had a Scottish player in it.

We have never won a title with a side that didn't have a scot playing.

It is a similar story with managers, as our title winning sides have only ever been managed by English (3), Scots (3) and one irishman. Curiously, 2 of the English managers were geordies (the other was a Manc!)

So, our best statistical likelihoood of winning the title rests with us having a Government that is not labour, is in an odd numbered year and with a Scot in the side.

Should we hope Danny Wilson, from Rangers, becomes a regular next season, 2010-11 and that we are managed by . . . . O'Neil? Hodgson?

. . . anyone think of a good Scottish manager for us?

Title winning years and governments

1900-01, Con
1905-06, Lib
1921-22, Coalition
1922-23, Con
1946-47, Lab
1963-64, Con
1965-66, Lab
1972-73, Con
1975-76, Lab
1976-77, Lab
1978-79, Con
1979-80, Con
1981-82, Con
1982-83, Con
1983-84, Con
1985-86, Con
1987-88, Con
1989-90, Con

4 Labour
1 Liberal
1 Coalition
12 Conservative


Can anyone think of any more curious political, managerial or player facts connected with our past success?

Even better . . . . . .perhaps we could do with 2 new owners called . . . Nick and Dave or maybe an owner called Dave and a manager called Nick?

In fact, what about this for a line up:

Clarke

Hague Harman Letwind Hughes

Duncan-Smith Spelman Osborne Laws

Cameron Clegg

I think I have a reasonable balance of the lefties and the rights in the correct positions!