Doug Livermore and Ray Clemence, Tottenham Hotspur
Doug Livermore and Ray Clemence took charge of Tottenham Hotspur during a strange period at the club. Terry Venables had moved upstairs, Alan Sugar was chairman, and the early Premier League years at White Hart Lane carried plenty of noise away from the pitch.
Livermore and Clemence were placed in charge for the 1992/93 season, but the campaign never developed into anything especially convincing. Spurs started slowly, taking just three points from their opening five matches, before the arrival of Teddy Sheringham helped lift them. They eventually finished in mid-table.
The FA Cup offered a possible route to something more memorable, but that ended painfully with defeat to Arsenal in the semi-final at Wembley. For Spurs, losing a semi-final to their biggest rivals was never going to be filed away as quiet progress.
The arrangement ended after one season, with Ossie Ardiles appointed in the summer of 1993. Livermore and Clemence were not humiliated, but neither did they make a persuasive case for joint management at a club of Tottenham’s size. Their spell had the feel of a holding pattern during a period when the club’s real power struggles were happening elsewhere.