Jimmy Davies has managed Waterloo Dock AFC in the Liverpool County Premier League since 1963 where he has won 70 trophies.
Davies, who will manage his last game as Waterloo Dock AFC manager on May 28, said that he had enjoyed managing the club "tremendously" though admitted that he fell into football management "purely by accident."
The outgoing Waterloo Dock AFC manager said he had played for the club that was formed by a group of dock workers 1963 before being "found out" by his team-mates. "Early on but after six weeks, the lads found me out and, trying to be nice, said 'you can go and be our manager'".
The 71 year-old, whose claims have been verified by The Football Association, told the BBC he had "made the bold announcement it was going to be my last year ahead of our AGM, although I will still be on the committee" and that "time moves on [and] the modern age is catching up on me".
Davies added that, unlike the millionaires playground of the Premier League, the Liverpool County Premier League was "proper football" while chipping in that he did not "think Fergie gets involved in washing football kits like my wife does."
The irony of a Merseyside-based manager outlasting Ferguson and winning more trophies than the Scot will, no doubt, not be lost on Liverpool supporters who still rememeber the Scot's aim to "knock Liverpool off their ******* perch" following his arrival in England from Aberdeen in 1986.
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