Bootroom. On-line Shop and Sports Cafe Sacrilegious???

Another marketing gimmick from our club. Damn I hope the yanks leave soon

http://www.lfcbootroom.tv/

I would get this done when i get back into football still out for 6 months.

Not impressed. The Bootroom is a sacred place for Liverpool Fans.

It was actually a room that stored the squad's football boots that Bill Shankly also changed into a coaches' meeting room. It was an informal and a relaxing atmosphere that paid dividends for Liverpool who were rebuilding at the time. The original members of the boot room staff were Shankly, Reuben Bennett, Bob Paisley and Joe Fagan. Bennett was the only one of the original quartet who did not manage the club at some point during his career. It was though Bennett who remained at Anfield the longest of the four.[1]

Paisley knew the Liverpool way of doing things, having been a player, becoming a physiotherapist and then a coach. He also knew what the Liverpool faithful expected from their side. Fagan was quiet but very astute and a favourite of Shankly's, who tried in vain to sign him as a player whilst he was the manager of Grimsby Town. Reuben Bennett was a friend of Shankly's as well as a work colleague, he knew the man and his family and used to be a decent player in his own right. After Shankly left in 1974, the boot room tradition was carried on by succeeding managers Paisley, Fagan and Kenny Dalglish during the most illustrious era of the club's history.

On match days, the opposing managers and staff were invited in for a post-match drink. Any manager or coach who had visited the room would have stories to tell about the place, and all were in agreement that the Boot Room worked for the Anfield club.[citation needed]

The Boot Room was also used for the training of future Liverpool managers (graduates). It became 'the Liverpool way' to promote from within so that the wheels would carry on turning smoothly in the event of a manager resigning or, as it used to be at Anfield, retiring. Paisley, Fagan and Ronnie Moran, who stepped in as caretaker manager on several occasions, were all trained, without them realising it, in the Boot Room.

Although managers Dalglish and Graeme Souness were not "educated" in the Boot Room, they realised the values that it brought and kept it during their tenures. It produced yet another manager in Roy Evans when Souness left the club. Evans took over at the helm after a long education that began under Shankly, and although the club didn't win half as much under Souness and Evans, they kept the Boot Room running producing coaches like Sammy Lee and aiding established coaches such as Doug Livermore.

With the advent of the "modern" game Gérard Houllier closed the door on the Boot Room for the final time but kept up the tradition of bringing in Liverpool people, by hiring former Red's skipper and coach Phil Thompson who also took over the running of the club when Houllier had to enter hospital to have an operation on his heart.

Former manager in charge Rafael Benítez also knows about the value of the Boot Room, and although he hasn't established a room of his own, he has reintroduced a lot of the values and ideas, albeit with a more modern approach. The Boot Room legacy has been resurrected again with the appointment of old boy and former coach Sammy Lee as assistant manager in May 2008, who played under Bob Paisley in the glory days of the 1980's.
From Wiki. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boot_Room



So to use the "Bootroom" to flog some footie boots is un-F***ing-believeable

Not impressed. The Bootroom is a sacred place for Liverpool Fans.

It was actually a room that stored the squad's football boots that Bill Shankly also changed into a coaches' meeting room. It was an informal and a relaxing atmosphere that paid dividends for Liverpool who were rebuilding at the time. The original members of the boot room staff were Shankly, Reuben Bennett, Bob Paisley and Joe Fagan. Bennett was the only one of the original quartet who did not manage the club at some point during his career. It was though Bennett who remained at Anfield the longest of the four.[1]

Paisley knew the Liverpool way of doing things, having been a player, becoming a physiotherapist and then a coach. He also knew what the Liverpool faithful expected from their side. Fagan was quiet but very astute and a favourite of Shankly's, who tried in vain to sign him as a player whilst he was the manager of Grimsby Town. Reuben Bennett was a friend of Shankly's as well as a work colleague, he knew the man and his family and used to be a decent player in his own right. After Shankly left in 1974, the boot room tradition was carried on by succeeding managers Paisley, Fagan and Kenny Dalglish during the most illustrious era of the club's history.

On match days, the opposing managers and staff were invited in for a post-match drink. Any manager or coach who had visited the room would have stories to tell about the place, and all were in agreement that the Boot Room worked for the Anfield club.[citation needed]

The Boot Room was also used for the training of future Liverpool managers (graduates). It became 'the Liverpool way' to promote from within so that the wheels would carry on turning smoothly in the event of a manager resigning or, as it used to be at Anfield, retiring. Paisley, Fagan and Ronnie Moran, who stepped in as caretaker manager on several occasions, were all trained, without them realising it, in the Boot Room.

Although managers Dalglish and Graeme Souness were not "educated" in the Boot Room, they realised the values that it brought and kept it during their tenures. It produced yet another manager in Roy Evans when Souness left the club. Evans took over at the helm after a long education that began under Shankly, and although the club didn't win half as much under Souness and Evans, they kept the Boot Room running producing coaches like Sammy Lee and aiding established coaches such as Doug Livermore.

With the advent of the "modern" game Gérard Houllier closed the door on the Boot Room for the final time but kept up the tradition of bringing in Liverpool people, by hiring former Red's skipper and coach Phil Thompson who also took over the running of the club when Houllier had to enter hospital to have an operation on his heart.

Former manager in charge Rafael Benítez also knows about the value of the Boot Room, and although he hasn't established a room of his own, he has reintroduced a lot of the values and ideas, albeit with a more modern approach. The Boot Room legacy has been resurrected again with the appointment of old boy and former coach Sammy Lee as assistant manager in May 2008, who played under Bob Paisley in the glory days of the 1980's.
From Wiki. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boot_Room



So to use the "Bootroom" to flog some footie boots is un-f**king-believeable

It would seem nothing is sacred anymore. Everything tainted by the touch of greed from the top.
If the tragedies of the past opened up the club to its fans it would seem that the latest incumbents can do nothing but alienate themselves from their fanbase

As much as I hate the name, it seems to be pretty damn good.

Boot Room tops league table

http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/news/latest-news/boot-room-tops-league-table

7th Feb 2011 - Latest News

Liverpool FC's Boot Room Sports Cafe has been voted in the UK's top 10 restaurants by users on Open Table.

Customers rating the Reds' diner on the internet's leading online restaurant reservation service have ranked it amongst the finest eateries in the entire UK.

The good news doesn't stop there for the Boot Room after it came out top of the pile in the north-west category in the Diners' Choice awards.

Meanwhile, the restaurant, which is situated in the Kop, was also elected as the nation's most 'kid-friendly' bistro on Open Table.

LFC's Conference and Events Department general manager Paul Cuttill said: "I am delighted with achieving a top 10 position in the Open Table top 10 Diners' Choice in both the national and north west results.

"We are immensely proud of our food quality and service, which we have worked hard to achieve and maintain.

"We are also delighted to have been scored top for being 'kid friendly' as we have always aimed to be a high-quality family restaurant."



Opened in October 2010, the Boot Room offers a unique, fun and family-orientated experience. The 230-seated restaurant has been created with LFC fans in mind and boasts private booths and TV screens showing live sports. It also has a selection of club memorabilia on display and activities to keep children entertained.

A freshly prepared menu includes favourites including steaks, burgers, stone-baked pizzas and pasta dishes.

Youngsters are catered for with a special mini Boot Room menu, signature fruit cocktails and are invited to make their own pizzas which is then cooked by our team of Boot Room chefs. They can also use the popular ice cream machine in the specially-designed kids' area.