Roy Quentin Echlin Evans is an English former footballer who played as a defender for Liverpool. He eventually rose through the coaching ranks to become the team manager. While predominantly applying his trade for Liverpool, he had a short loan spell at Philadelphia Atoms and later went on to manage Liverpool, Fulham and Swindon.
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Roy Quentin Echlin Evans is an English former footballer who played as a defender for Liverpool. He eventually rose through the coaching ranks to become the team manager. While predominantly applying his trade for Liverpool, he had a short loan spell at Philadelphia Atoms and later went on to manage Liverpool, Fulham and Swindon. Evans is the most recent Liverpool manager to graduate from The Boot Room, while Ronnie Moran retired in 1999 without ever taking over as manager. Evans managed Liverpool to third place in the Premier League in 1996. He also won the Football League Cup with a side that was built around Steve McManaman, Jamie Redknapp and Robbie Fowler. In the summer of 1995, Evans made the headlines by paying a British record fee for Nottingham Forest striker Stan Collymore. The 1996 season was the closest Evans would come to winning the English Premier League title, but Manchester United clinched the title by a single point at the end of the season. Evans’ side also reached the FA Cup final, but lost 1-0 to a late Eric Cantona goal for Manchester United.
He was sacked as manager of Liverpool in April 2000. He has also been in charge of Fulham, Hull City, West Bromwich Albion, Leicester City and West Ham United in the last five years of his managerial career. He is the father of former Liverpool player and England international Paul Evans, who played for the club in the 1960s and 1970s and is now the assistant manager of West Brom. Evans also has a son, Paul, who is a former England Under 21 international who played in the 1990s and 1990s. He played for Liverpool in the North American Soccer League in the 1970s, and also spent a summer of 1973 in the N.A.S.L. with the Philadelphia Atoms. Evans has been a coach at Liverpool since 1974, starting as a coach under Bill Shankly, who retired in 1974 to be succeeded by assistant Bob Paisley. When Shankly retired in 1983, his own assistant Joe Fagan was promoted to the manager’s seat.
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