“I love the city and the people here. I’ve been with them for many years and I fought alongside them.”

Bob Paisley is one of the greatest football managers of all time and will long be fondly remembered by Liverpool fans in particular.

The great man would have been celebrating his 99th birthday on Monday and few brought success to the city quite in the way Paisley did. Both he and Carlo Ancelotti are the only managers to have won the European Cup three times.

During his nine-year tenure as Liverpool manager, Paisley won honours at a rate of 2.2 per season, a rate surpassed only by Pep Guardiola.

He spent almost fifty years with Liverpool as a wing half, physiotherapist, coach and manager, and is one of bosses to have won the English top flight as both a player and a manager at the same club.

Other sport stars born on this day

1971: Scott Gibbs, is a former centre for Wales who was named 1997 Player of the Series with the Lions (46).

1975: Tito Ortiz, is a former MMA fighter best known for his stint as UFC light-heavyweight champion (42).

1984: Arjen Robben, is a Bayern Munich winger a team he has won 15 major trophies with (33).

1987: Leo Komarov, is a centre for the Toronto Maple Leafs and a world champion with Finland (30).