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What next for Harry? - originally posted on Soccerlens.com
Sunday night saw the news that Harry Redknapp must have been dreading since that fateful
February day when he was acquitted of not paying his taxes and Fabio Capello resigned in a huff
over John Terry and god knows what else. Harry, the darling of the press was passed over for the
job he dearly longed for.
Was Brian Clough the best manager England never had? - originally posted on Soccerlens.com
With the England manager's position currently available, and a recent track record of over-paid
and under performing foreign managers, the nation is crying out for a talisman to lead the side to
Euro 2012.
It is now almost forty years since Bristol Rovers ran up one of the most remarkable unbeaten
runs in the entire history of the Football League, and their attack at the time was one of the most
feared around. Here's Paul Caulfield on a team that is fondly remembered by its supporters, and the
strikers that took them to promotion from the Third Division.
Two time European Cup winner Trevor Francis has suffered a suspected
heart-attack.
Francis (57) became the first player to break the £1m transfer barrier between two British
clubs when he moved from Birmingham City to Nottingham Forest for £1m and then went on to lift two
European Cups with Forest under the great Brian Clough is said to be recovering well at
Hospital.
It was a dull and dreary night But not one week before When 'gainst opponents dressed in white The
Forest failed to score Nor even make a half a chance To satisfy their fans And stood as if put in a
trance To lose against the Rams [...]
It's hard to talk about Nottingham Forest without talking about Brian Clough, no more so when it
comes to books. Inevitably, Clough dominates the past four decades of the club so, with a heavy
slant towards 'the greatest manager who ever lived', Seat Pitch brings you another 10 of the best
[...] Read the original post on Seat Pitch
When I find myself in times of trouble Brian Clough is there for me Speaking words of wisdom Seven
Three [...] Read the original post on Pissing Red
There were a couple of derbies on last week.
Liverpool played Everton in a battle for upper-mid-table supremacy. I'm sure it was on the box,
and Liverpool won, but no one outside of Liverpool really cared. It cemented their grip on – what
is it, seventh? They must have been delighted to have already qualified for Europe through the
Carling Cup.
Clough biographies have tended to be personal recollections by journalists who knew or were used by
the great man at the time like Duncan Hamilton or Tony Francis. Wilson is a reporter from
Sunderland who now writes for the Guardian and this claims to be the first full biography
of Clough from birth to death.
By Chris Wright
It's Friday afternoon and you know what that means. It's 'footballers in daft hats' time...
Gary Lineker
Edwin van der Sar
Paul Ince
Brian Clough
Nigel Reo-Coker
Nicklas Bendtner
Dennis Wise and Geoff Thomas
George Best
Peter Beardsley
Zinedine Zidane
Lothar Matthaus
Bobby Moore
Colin Hendry
Ken Bates
Ken Bates (again)
Sir Alex Ferguson
Kevin Keegan
Garth Crooks and Ossie Ardilles
Ryan Giggs
Sir Bobby Charlton
Kenny Dalglish
Steven Gerrard
Sir Bobby Charlton (again)
Mario Balotelli
Gary Lineker (again)
John Motson
Arjen Robben
Ronaldinho
Roy Keane
Roy Keane (again) Since when has 'dressing Roy Keane up against his will and
then arming him with an offensive weapon' been a good idea?
Goooood piece by Jonathan Wilson here.
Evolution lies at the heart of longevity and Chelsea have spent the past five years simply not
evolving. Perhaps Sir Alex Ferguson's greatest act of management was the culling of Paul Ince, Mark
Hughes and Andriy Kanchelskis in 1995 after Manchester United had finished second in the league and
lost in the FA Cup final.
Trailing MK Dons 1-0 at halftime, Bournemouth needed a kick in the pants to spur them on to
victory in the second half. Usually, it's the manager who delivers a stirring team talk to achieve
this, but in the Bournemouth dressing room on Saturday, it was the owner's wife who took it upon
herself to address the team.
Larry Lloyd's Hard Man: Hard Game is one of the best accounts of Forest's golden years
that I have read. I think Lloyd benefits hugely from having a female ghost writer. At the risk of
being sexist, it just allows one of the hardest men I have ever met to admit to all sorts of things
that I am not sure he would if he'd have played it safe and used a male sports journalist to help
him write the book [.
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- Five Years Ago Today: The "China Brawl"
- On This Day in Football: February 7.
Let's face it, the most realistic way we have of seeing out this weekend without another defeat is
if the weather forecast comes in at the more severe end of the prediction and we get the game
snowed off. Rarely have I been able to muster up less optimism for a trip down Brian Clough Way
despite a largely awful time of it contesting matches at Pride Park [.
Reports are reaching us that Nottingham Forest Head Coach (Driver) has landed himself in deep
water. It seems that Steve Cotterill sought to emulate the late, great Brian Clough by driving the
team coach to the FA Cup 3rd Round Replay at Leicester last week [...]
My dear beloved Forest, what on earth has happened to us? We used to have such great times and were
so happy together and now we just seem to be drifting apart. Your flowing moves used to excite me
to the point of distraction, and the climax to those moves was often unbelievable. Your passion and
commitment used to warm me on a cold Saturday afternoon when we spent time together, but now your
caresses have become cold and uncaring.
My dear beloved Forest, what on earth has happened to us? We used to have such great times and were
so happy together and now we just seem to be drifting apart. Your flowing moves used to excite me
to the point of distraction, and the climax to those moves was often unbelievable. Your passion and
commitment used to warm me on a cold Saturday afternoon when we spent time together, but now your
caresses have become cold and uncaring.
Ep.21 Swan-upmanship by Off The Post on Mixcloud Much like Thierry Henry and Paul Scholes (and
Jason Euell), the OTP Podcast is back in its rightful place – that place being, of course, one of
ignorance, bias and second hand stats. This week the Pod are full of praise for Swansea's
dismantling of Arsenal, Alex [.
BBC Sport Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger unhappy after loss to Fulham.
Over the past year or so, football experts have taken a shot at trying to troubleshoot
Arsenal's predisposition to losing games which they had already had won. Many comments focused on
the squad's lack of defensive strength but I have a different take on the problem
It's not the defenders that cause Arsenal's fragility, it's the attitude of the manager who
almost never holds his players accountable for their mistakes, blames everyone else around him when
they lose, and so consequently, his players have no fear.
We haven't done one of these for a while but here are some interesting links.
Jonathan Wilson on Villas-Boas.
"Rome wasn't built in a day," Brian Clough once said. "But then I wasn't on that particular
job." It's a great line, but the truth is that the majority of managers need time.
Oliver Sparrow and Eric Beard had the pleasure of spending an hour with esteemed author and
journalist Jonathan Wilson on the AFR Podcast. Jonathan writes for The Guardian, The Independent,
Sports Illustrated, World Soccer, and FourFourTwo. He is also the editor of a quarterly publication
called The Blizzard, which is filled with content from some of the biggest names in football
journalism.
Oliver Sparrow and Eric Beard had the pleasure of spending an hour with esteemed author and
journalist Jonathan Wilson on the AFR Podcast. Jonathan writes for The Guardian, The Independent,
Sports Illustrated, World Soccer, and FourFourTwo. He is also the editor of a quarterly publication
called The Blizzard, which is filled with content from some of the biggest names in football
journalism.
Another from the Seat Pitch archives (well, the box in the loft), Brian Clough's Nottingham Forest
team from 1986. Courtesy of Panini stickers [...] Read the original post on Seat Pitch
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Jonathan Wilson's biography about legendary football manager Brian Clough manages to combine the
two best attributes by which a book should be judged: how it teaches things you never knew, and how
spellbinding it was. Brian Clough: Nobody Ever Says...
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Unearthed from the Seat Pitch archives (well, found in a box in the loft), Brian Clough's
Nottingham Forest team from 1985. Courtesy of Panini stickers [...] Read the original post on Seat
Pitch
After over 12 months out of the game, Martin O'Neill has returned to Premier League management
after signing a three year contract with Sunderland, the team he supported as boy.
For many and certainly for Sunderland fans, it is the perfect appointment, O'Neill has long
since been recognised as one of the great football managers of recent times and has always improved
the standing of any club he has been in charge of.
Records must have broken this year as a plethora of Forest books hit the shelves – the postman
serving the LTLF offices is currently taking three months off with a crippled spine from carrying
all the review copies that have dropped through our letterbox in the last few months. But aside
from giving postal workers back problems, what purpose are all these books serving?
By Greg Evans
You could've had staked your life savings on Brian Clough being absolutely fuming with the Notts
County defence come 5 o'clock last Saturday evening, were Old Big 'Ead still with us of
course.
The Magpies travelled up to Yorkshire that morning knowing they had the opportunity to well and
truly piss on Huddersfield's bonfire a club on the brink of breaking a very prestigious
English Football League record.
Former Liverpool striker Stan Collymore has controversially claimed that Manchester United boss Sir
Alex Ferguson is a superior manager to Bill Shankly and Bob Paisley.
Collymore, who also claims that Man United wanted to sign him in 1994, argued:
"Through the years there have been plenty of top bosses; Jock Stein, Brian Clough, Bill Shankly and
Bob Paisley have all written their names into history books, but Fergie is on a different level
altogether".
Praise continues to come in for Sir Alex Ferguson, and Mark Lawrenson writes of why we will never
get a manager of his kind again.
Sir Alex Ferguson is a one-off and we will never get a manager of his kind again.
Ferguson has built six different and successful Manchester United teams.
Fergie's the greatest manager... but would you go for a pint with him?
Here's a sneak preview of how I'll look on Strictly Come Dancing's Halloween special this
Saturday. People have been saying for years that I'm nothing but hair and teeth and this proves
they're right!
Interesting stuff in the Mail. Well not interesting in any real sense, diverting
perhaps. Anyway, football managers polled as to who they'd like to have dinner with:
Harry Redknapp Muhammad Ali, Vincent O'Brien, Bobby Moore
Paul Ince – Wife, John F Kennedy, Tiger Woods
Paul Lambert Elvis Presley, George Bush, George Best
Roberto Di Matteo Julius Caesar, Claudia Schiffer, Robert De Niro
Sam Allardyce Nelson Mandela, Muhammad Ali, Sir Alex Ferguson
Sven Goran Eriksson Nelson Mandela, Pope John Paul, Barack Obama
Chris Coleman John F Kennedy, Elvis Presley, Jimi Hendrix
Tony Adams Jesus, Sir Alf Ramsey, Scarlett Johansson
Simon Grayson Geoffrey Boycott, Bono, Don Revie
Roberto Mancini Paolo Mantovani, The Pope, Sheikh Mansour
Rafa Benitez Julius Caesar, Al Pacino, Napoleon
David Moyes Mother, Tommy Burns, Kylie Minogue
Gustavo Poyet Fernando Morena, Michael Jordan, Wife
Neil Warnock – Queen, Barbara Streisand, Brian Clough
Steve McClaren Nelson Mandela, Barack Obama, Sir Alex Ferguson
Alex McLeish - Robert Di Niro, John Lennon, Muhammad Ali
Alan Pardew Muhammad Ali, Barrack Obama, Spike Milligan
Peter Reid Elvis Presley, Jesus Christ, Angelina Jolie
Chris Hughton Martin Luther King, Muhammad Ali, Bill Shankly
Gianfranco Zola Father, wife, Diego Maradona
Shame no Roy, Jol or SAF.
By Alan Duffy
The ultimate football anorak (or sheepskin coat), iconic commentator John Motson has now been
with the Beeb for 40 years, quite an achievement.
In a world before Sky Sports, self-important celebrity pundits, the overuse of ironic puns and
Clive Tyldesley, Motson was football television's Mr Big, the A-list commentator who shared
football's iconic moments with the nation.
By Chris Wright
On behalf of Yahoo and the League Manager's Association, a 20-strong phalanx of managers have
been quizzed over their ideal dinner dates.
All the usual suspects were present, with Elvis, De Niro, Pacino et al all rearing their ugly
heads though it was floaty/stingy boxer Muhammad Ali who picked up the most nods, with five
managers (Redknapp, Allardyce, McLeish, Pardew and Hughton) plumping for the pugilist.
Has Wenger stayed too long? These five bosses did...
All eyes are on Arsenal's Arsene Wenger after Saturday's 4-3 defeat at Blackburn was followed by
a vote of confidence from Gunners chief executive Ivan Gazidis. The Frenchman has transformed his
side and, arguably, English football too.
If you've watched or read The Damned United, you'll know that the 1974 Charity Shield between Leeds
United and Liverpool plays a pivotal role. It was a real life drama featuring remarkable characters
Bill Shankly and Brian Clough. And on ...
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By Chris Wright
Ten more wonderful vintage photos picked at random from the Pies' archives...
England captain Bobby Moore shows off a particularly dapper shirt from his new line of
stylish fashion products, 1972
Chelsea's Dick Spence and Len Goulden play head tennis during training at Stamford Bridge,
1947
Sheffield Wednesday forward Derek Dooley (and his wife) travels home from Preston Royal
Infirmary in an ambulance after having his leg amputated following a gangrene infection to the
broken leg he suffered against Preston North End, 1953
West Ham footballers play leapfrog during a training session on the beach at Southend,
1951
The bare feet of Nigeria's Justin Onwudiwe.
Beware, I suppose, expecting your heroes of yesteryear to still be giants today.
They often disappoint.
I used to think Ronnie Corbett was a comedy giant. Turns out he's a small man with an attitude
problem.
Yet here I am in my thirties and I'm still in raptures about a guy I worshipped when I was eight
and was thrilled by when I was 18.
