### Clue: Manager to plunder a Liverpool player before game, reportedly (5,8)
### Answer: HARRY REDKNAPP 
 ### Explanation: Definition: Manager
  HARRY(to ravage,plunder, as in war) RED(a player of the Liverpool Football Club, nicknamed the Reds) **placed before**(before) KNAPP{**homophone of**(reportedly) "nap"(short for "napoleon",a card game similar to whist, apparently not named after the 1 with his hand under his vest in his portraits, but his nephew, the III.  The references I've seen don't tell how he got to have a card game named after him.)}.