Joint-bosses: can Lincoln succeed where Liverpool failed?

Joint-bosses: can Lincoln succeed where Liverpool failed?Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, The Lincoln City duo of Tom Shaw and Chris Cohen (left) follow the likes of Roy Evans and Gerard Houllier (right) at Liverpool in taking over as joint-bosses ByAndrew Aloia, BBC Sport, East Midland & Lincolnshire and Michael Hortin & Rob Makepeace, BBC Radio LincolnshirePublished39 minutes ago3 CommentsLiverpool famously did it once and it even brought silverware to Coventry City - but the managerial double act remains a footballing curiosity.At Lincoln City, it is now the way of the future.When League One title-winning head coach Michael Skubala was recruited by Bristol City last week, Chris Cohen and Tom Shaw were promptly promoted from their roles as assistant coaches and named as the pair to replace the 43-year-old.Joint-bosses are a rarity - one history would suggest rarely works – examples being the few fractious months Gerard Houllier and Roy Evans shared the dugout at Liverpool in 1998 or the underwhelming campaign for which Doug Livermore and Ray Clemence were in charge of Tottenham earlier that decade.However, John Sillett and George Curtis did work wonders at Coventry when together they guided the Sky Blues to to FA Cup glory in 1987.As a club with a modest League One budget who had not played in England's second tier for more than six decades, Lincoln's promotion under Skubala last season was a tale of how daring to be different and willing to be innovative could deliver success.But the appointment of Cohen and Shaw, however bold the move might seem, is an attempt to be groundbreaking, according to Imps' chief executive Liam Scully."We acknowledge that there will be questions about this structure and that it isn't football convention," he told BBC Radio Lincolnshire."We certainly didn't start this process saying 'how do we break football convention?' - that wasn't the intention."Equally, wha...