But over Tranmere Rovers' 124 year history, one man stands out above all others as the greatest person to ever be involved with the club, and he went by the name of John King.
King started his footballing career with Evertona a schoolboy, making just under 50 appearances for the Toffees before joining Bournemouth in 1960. However, after just seven months on the South Coast, he was on the move again, joining Tranmere Rovers for the first time, starting a real love affair with the Wirral club.
Making his debut in a 2-1 win over Shrewsbury Town, King went on to captain Tranmere as he made 264 appearances for the club, helping them win promotion in 1966-67 under Dave Russell, beofre joining Port Vale in 1968 after being given a free-transfer.
After helping the Valients to promotion also, King had a spell in non-League football at Wigan before returning to Tranmere Rovers as a coach in 1973.
Two years later, King was put in charge of Tranmere for the first time after Ron Yeats departed as Tranmere boss in summer 1975. From this moment onwards, Johnny King would become a firm fan favourite at Prenton Park, a real Rovers hero.
In his first season as manager, Tranmere won promotion for just the third time in their history, as they moved back up to Division Three, where King had played briefly for Tranmere as a player.
However, Rovers lasted just two seasons in Division Three before relegaton and after a 15th place finish in Division Four during the 1979-80 season, King was sacked.
This though was far from the end of "Kingy's" relationship with the club. After spending time as a coach at Rochdale, King was appointed manager at Northwich Victoria - with whom he got to Wembley twice in the F.A. Trophy - and Caernarfon Town in the Welsh league, before being returning to Tranmere as manager for the second time in April 1987 after Peter Johnson saved the club from near certain bankruptcy by buying them out.
When King returned to Prenton Park, the Wirral club where in dire trouble, struggling at the bottom of Division Four. Relegation looked near certain and an exciting end to the season was to follow, as Rovers only secured their place in the Football League on the final day of the 1986-87 season thanks to a goal from Gary Williams that secured Tranmere a 1-0 win over Exeter at Prenton Park.
That goal was to by the catalyst of Tranmere's success over the next eight or so years, as King was as good as his promise, leading Rovers on "a journey to the moon".
With the aid of Peter Johnson's money and King's increadible eye for a player, Rovers were able to build an amazingly strong team, the strongest in their history, a team that would propel themselves up to the top of Division One and the team in which many Tranmere legends were born.
The season after surviving that big relegation scare, Rovers were to finish Runners-Up in Division Four, therefore securing promotion to Division Three for the second time under John King as manager. This time though, Rovers were not going to struggle a division above, but instead push on and make history.
The next season, Tranmere made two trips to Wembley in the space of a week, firstly for the Leyland DAF Trophy final, where Bristol Rovers were beaten, before losing to Notts County in the Third Division Play-Off final a week later.
However, the dream of Division Two football was to be secured a year later as in the 1990-91 season, Tranmere beat Bolton Wanderers in the play-off final courtesy of a winning strike from Chris Malkin in a 1-0 victory for Tranmere.
Although Rovers were also to lose the Leyland DAF Final to Birmingham City in the same season, ultimately they had been promoted to Division Two for the first time, something that has not been achieved since!
The success though didn't stop their for Tranmere, as they were painfully close to winning promotion to the Premier League under King whilst in Division One, as three times they reached the play-offs but never made it past the semi-final stage, whilst also reaching the League Cup semi-final where they were knocked out by Aston Villa.
Tranmere's success in the early years of King's spell at the club also saw them qualify for the League's centenary tournament, held at Wembley stadium, called "The Football League Centenary Festival". This was the first time Tranmere had played at the national stadium but they were far from over-powered by the bigger opposition in the tournament, causing a couple of upsets before being knocked out by Wimbledon.
It was then, that John King became the greatest manager Tranmere have ever had, and he is fondly remembered and/or thought of by all Tranmere Rovers fans.
He got Tranmere playing the "right" way, getting the ball out to the wingers, often Nevin and Morrisey, from where the ball could be crossed in for the likes of Muir, Aldridge and Steele to score. The midfiled and defence appeared to pass the ball around effortlessly, as, you might say, was shown in Tranmere's Masters victory in late June, whilst this helped Tranmere to push on to previously unchartered success.
King brought the likes of Aldridge, Nevin, Steele and Nixon to the club, whilst he also made the likes of Bishop and Mungall in to very, very good players. Youngsters such as Brannan and Thomas were able to come through, have success and then push on to bigger and better things in their footballing career, whilst Tranmere Rovers were able to sustain a place in Division One until 2001, five years after King had departed.
In 1996, after Tranmere had had a mid-table finish in Division One and after Peter Johnson had withdrawn his funding from the club, John King was replaced as manager by John Aldridge, who became player/manager of the club, with King becoming the Director of Football at Prenton Park.
It was not until some years later though that the club recognised his work as the Borough Road stand at Prenton Park was renamed the "Johnny King Stand", the least Tranmere could do for somebody who really was a terrific servant to the club.
King built a rapport with the fans that really hasn't been seen since. He was, in a way, Mr. Tranmere, spending nearly 20 years of his life with the club. One thing the fans without doubt loved him for was his brilliant quotes about the club, using metaphor to paint a wonderful picture of what he thought of the club and players. These quotes included:
"I can't promise anyone success, but I can promise them a trip to the moon"
"Tranmere will never be able to compete with Liverpool and Everton. They're like big liners like the Queen Mary, but I see Tranmere as a Deadly Submarine"
"Aldridge is like a pair of shoes in a shop. You look at them over and over again and then you find you have enough money to buy them"
"I told them beforehand I wanted to see them firing bullets and not blanks. I wanted us playing with live ammunition and they went out and did that"
King will always be remembered for his efforts with Tranmere Rovers and it is possible we will never see the success he achieved at Prenton Park for a very long time, but what is certain is that there will never be another character like him.