Doug Livermore

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Doug Livermore, picture taken after a friendly between Team Porsgrunn, Norway and Spurs in 1993

Douglas Ernest Livermore (b. 27 December 1947) is a former professional footballer and manager.

As a player, Livermore played for Liverpool, Norwich, Cardiff and Chester before beginning his coaching career.

He started his coaching career at Norwich in 1980 as Reserve team manager, before moving onto Swansea to take up a similar role. During his time at Swansea, he had a two month spell as caretaker manager in 1983. He then moved onto Tottenham Hotspur F.C. were again he was Reserve team manager and also took the role of coach for Wales. In 1992, he was appointed joint manager of Tottenham Hotspur with Ray Clemence. After being replaced by Ossie Ardiles at Tottenham, he became assistant manager to Roy Evans at Liverpool. Livermore left Liverpool at the same time as Evans in 1998, and then he and Peter Shreeves were appointed as assistants to Ron Atkinson at Nottingham Forest F.C. in 1999. After Forest were relegated from the Premiership he moved back to his former club Norwich City, and became assistant to Bruce Rioch. He remained in this role under Bryan Hamilton, Nigel Worthington and for the first four months under Peter Grant. However, on 9th February 2007, it was announced that Doug would be leaving Norwich and has since been replaced by Jim Duffy. Doug had spent 7 years as part of the Canaries backroom staff.