Derby had come close to winning at Newcastle on Sunday and had it not been for Gerrard they might have won for the first time under manager Paul Jewell.
But a slice of bad luck and a lapse in concentration enabled Liverpool managed to make it back-to-back wins in their opening two Premier League games for the first time under manager Rafael Benitez.
Meanwhile, Roy Hodgson is relishing the prospect of facing United for the first time as Liverpool manager.
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And, following the appointment of Wright as manager for the first time in January 2002, he helped build a team that took City back into the Football League in April 2004.
It's the first time the FA has appointed an English manager with international experience.
The prehistoric stones of Stonehenge are to be cared for by a general manager for the first time.
His sacking was the first time that a senior health manager had been removed from his post at a Northern Ireland trust.
He was the first Tynecastle manager in quite some time who was allowed the space to pick his own side and that is very encouraging.
But those statistics were rendered meaningless on an afternoon of triumph for City coach and former Inter Milan boss Roberto Mancini, who pitted his wits in the Premier League for the first time against ex-AC Milan manager Carlo Ancelotti.
But Laws claimed the whole country would be behind the Clarets as the 48-year-old goes head-to-head with United manager Sir Alex Ferguson for the first time in his career.
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Birmingham, meanwhile, miss the chance to reach the semi-finals for the first time since 1975 but with European qualification still a possibility in the league, manager Alex McLeish will at least have something to focus his players on.
The Clattenburg decision came as interim manager Rafael Benitez took charge of Chelsea training for the first time after the sacking Wednesday of Roberto Di Matteo.
Cotterill led Town to the Football League for the first time in 1999 and is their most successful manager.
But McCarthy, up against Spurs manager Harry Redknapp for the first time, formulated a plan to nullify that threat and it was executed superbly by his players.
Stanislas's 78th-minute leveller was no more than West Ham deserved for a spirited, if unspectacular, display against a Blackburn side led by caretaker manager Steve Kean for the first time following Sam Allardyce's dismissal on Monday.
Jersey's Town Centre Manager, Richard Mackenzie, said for the first time fewer shoppers had been recorded in the St Helier shopping precincts.
"Alan Lewer has been a real credit throughout this difficult time and he will now assume the responsibility of first team manager on a caretaker basis", added Curtis.
When the hotel opened in April 2011, his workouts were sporadic and at the end of the first year as general manager he'd given up finding time to work out.
Allan McGregor had returned to the side for the first time since his ban for a late-night drink session under previous manager George Burley.
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Under new manager Nigel Pearson, the Foxes returned to the Championship at the first time of asking and have made an impressive start to the new campaign.
Speed, the hugely-respected former Newcastle United, Everton and Bolton Wanderers player, would be an untested manager but lately the Swans have a track record of recruiting first-time managers.
Chelsea's response came as new manager Luiz Felipe Scolari met the media in his new capacity for the first time since leaving his job as coach of the Portugal national side.
Birmingham manager Alex McLeish is expected to meet Yeung and his business partners for the first time next week.
But there was no late boost and Chelsea slipped to successive league defeats for the first time in four-and-a-half years after a miserable week in which assistant manager Ray Wilkins was also sacked.
But Stein is quick to advocate the manager's role in bringing the non-league side to the fifth round for the first time in their history.
Redknapp was named Premier League manager of the year for 2009-10 after taking Spurs to Champions League qualification for the first time, and he guided the team to the quarterfinals in Europe the following season.
After leaving London Jensen became a player-manager at Danish team Herfolge BK where he led the club to the Danish Superliga title for the first time in their history.
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