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# Aston Villa manager Grard Houllier will return to Anfield to face his old
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club Liverpool with head held high
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## Gerard Houllier will return to Anfield on Monday evening for the first
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time as a Premier League manager since he was dismissed by Liverpool six years
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ago.
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![Grard Houllier - Aston Villa manager Grard Houllier will return to face his
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old club LIverpool with his head held high][1]
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Looking back: Grard Houllier is proud of his Liverpool past Photo: AFP
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[![Sandy Macaskill][2]][3]
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By [Sandy Macaskill][4] 7:00AM GMT 06 Dec 2010
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The Frenchman, now in charge at **[Aston Villa][7]**, will walk towards the
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tunnel and out onto the pitch, perhaps touching the 'This is Anfield' sign on
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the way, and it will be, he insists, with his head held high.
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Since arriving at Villa in September, the 63 year-old has had an aversion to
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talking about the past. The exception to the rule is **[Liverpool][8]**, where
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Houllier was manager from 1998-2004, and where despite never winning the
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title, he believes he achieved the three main targets of a football manager.
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He said: "I always think the mission of a manager is threefold. The first is
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to win a trophy and have silverware and win titles and so on -- so we did
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that. The second is to leave a legacy. I would just use my former chairman's
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words. He said: 'You put the club into the 21st century'.'
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"[My] legacy is also the team because the team that was left with Rafa
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[Benitez] won the **[Champions League][9]** the following year. So that means
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we finished in a position to play in the Champions League. We also had new
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facilities and maybe a new style of professionalism I would say.
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"The third mission of a manager is to make your players improve, both as
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players and men. We had a Ballon d'Or with Michael Owen, Steven Gerrard is a
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world-class international player. All the players, whether it's Danny Murphy
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or Emile Heskey of Stephane Henchoz or Sami Hyypia, they all became better
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players."
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## Related Articles
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* [Hodgson puts faith in youngsters][10]
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06 Dec 2010
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* [Comolli seeks window of opportunity][11]
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04 Dec 2010
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* [Damian Comolli a big cog in Anfield revolution][12]
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04 Dec 2010
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* [Gerrard on course to return][13]
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03 Dec 2010
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* [Liverpool v Aston Villa: match preview][14]
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03 Dec 2010
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* [Liverpool v Aston Villa: as it happened][15]
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06 Dec 2010
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When Houllier left, he remarked that a man might leave Liverpool, but
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Liverpool never leaves the man. Intriguingly he now says that he could not
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judge whether Liverpool remain such a special club after six years under the
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management of Benitez, and three years under the ownership of Tom Hicks and
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George Gillett.
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"I can't answer that," he said. "Not because I don't want to, but because I
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don't have the elements of answering it. I've not been inside the club.
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Obviously, things have probably changed in six years. The team would be
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totally different this time. I don't know exactly what's going on."
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What is going on is that Liverpool are 10 points outside what they would
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regard as their rightful space in the top four and searching for identity
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under Roy Hodgson, a friend of Houllier's ever since they met at a French
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indoor tournament in the mid-1980s.
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Houllier can appreciate the pressure, but advises patience. "Give him a bit of
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time, he needs to change a few things. The problem is at Liverpool, when you
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lose, it's a crisis."
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With the relegation zone too close for comfort, you could say it is the same
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for Villa on Monday evening. But Houllier says that losing to some teams is to
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be expected -- "you lose to Tottenham, OK" -- and he suggested that Liverpool,
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despite their problems, fall in the same category. "It's Liverpool," he said.
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"I saw them play against West Ham the other week. They are back. We need to
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give them a game."
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Does he expect to win? "If you look at our away record, it will be difficult
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to feel that way." One wonders what Villa supporters, who care little for
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Houllier's legacy at Liverpool, make of that.
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Their hopes of rectifying that record were damaged after it emerged that
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centre-back James Collins will not be available to play at Anfield. The
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Welshman was hurried back from a calf injury to face Birmingham City in the
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Carling Cup in midweek and has incurred further damage. His absence means that
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the chances of Villa keeping their first clean sheet in six matches are
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decidedly slim.
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Houllier already has a number of injuries to contend with and could be forced
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to ask Ciaran Clark, a centre-back by trade but currently deployed in the
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midfield, to fill the breach.
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There are also suggestions that Houllier has issued his players with a strict
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new code of conduct, which includes banning them from using mobile telephones
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at their Bodymoor Heath training complex.
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**Three buys to remember ... and three to forget **
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**To remember **
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**Gary McAllister**
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The shrewdest of free transfers. Played key role in 2001 'treble'.
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**Sami Hyypia**
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Unheralded when he arrived from Willem II but went on to make more than 400
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appearances.
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**Jerzy Dudek**
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Plucked from Feyenoord to replace Sander Westerveld as No 1. Went on to become
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a hero of Istanbul.
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**To forget**
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**Djimi Traore**
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So bad even his own fans mocked him in song.
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**Salif Diao**
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Explains why 'World Cup' signings are so dangerous.
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**Bruno Cheyrou**
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A £3.4m signing who cost £740,000 per goal.
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