A Kenny for your thoughts about Carra - a Liverpool FC blogger's view

The partnership of Kenny and Jamie has echoes of when the Scot first took the helm as player-manager in the summer of 1985 following the Heysel Stadium Disaster.

Kenny, of course, was a complete novice in the role, but if memory serves, I recall he enjoyed some great guidance from some of the very best football brains at the club who helped him in his early stages in the massive job, notably Bob Paisley who had moved from the manager's office to the board of directors in 1983.

As he gained more experience in the managerial side of things, Kenny became the very best in the business.

His start was pretty special - a League and FA Cup double (still the only time in the club's illustrious history that this feat has been achieved), second place in the League and League Cup finalists in 1987 before that incredible 1987-88 campaign when the team played the kind of football you can only dream about playing on your PlayStation.

Another FA Cup and our 18th League title duly followed but the aftermath of Hillsborough ultimately took its toll on Kenny and that freaky 4-4 FA Cup clash with Everton in February 1991 was to be his swansong in the Reds' dugout.

But he was back to enjoy more glory at Shankly Stadium in the spring of 1995 when he led his Blackburn Rovers team to the pinnacle of English football for the first time since the world was in black-and-white, and at the expense of 'them'.

Of course, you can trawl through his recent failings on the managerial front where his spell at Newcastle United only featured an FA Cup final loss in 1998 and at his first club, Celtic, where he guided the team to runners-up spot in the Scottish Premier League in 2000 and a Scottish League Cup final win over Aberdeen in the same season - no, I don't remember them either.

That said, you cannot put a price on experience. And his knowledge coupled with Carra's undoubted enthusiasm, commitment and desire to do everything for Liverpool Football Club while learning the ropes at being a manager would make a dream team to rival any you care to name in the history of professional football.

Forget this idea of employing a manager from outside the Liverpool 'family'. Let's look inwards again because the answer to Liverpool's managerial dilemma is right there already in the guise of Kenny and Carra.

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