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Originally posted by iajafer:
<BLOCKQUOTE>Originally posted by mrbiscuit:
As Sir Brian Clough, rest his soul, once said, if a player isn't interfering with play, he shouldn't be on the bloody pitch in the first place.
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Brian Clough, pharrt!!!
Bill Shankly said "If a player isn't interfering with play or seeking to gain an advantage, then he should be !"
Cloughie was a big mouthed plagiarising bastard.
At least he plagiarised a great man, though. </BLOCKQUOTE>
I'm tempted to reply with something that would get me banned!
Instead, i will attempt to amuse you with some of the great man's quotes.....
"I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one"
"I can't even spell spaghetti never mind talk Italian. How could I tell an Italian to get the ball? He might grab mine."
"B*****? His wife can't sing and his barber can't cut hair. "
"He should guide Posh in the direction of a singing coach because she's nowhere near as good at her job as her husband" - Advice for David B******.
"Anybody who can do anything in Leicester but make a jumper has got to be a genius"
"As far as I'm concerned you can throw all those medals you've won in the bin, because you won them all by cheating" (to the Leeds United players on the first day of his 44).
"John Robertson was a very unattractive young man. If, one day, I was feeling a bit off colour, I would sit next to him. I was bloody Errol Flynn compared to him."
"They thought I was going to change it lock, stock and barrel. They were shrewd because that's exactly what I would have done" - on why he was rejected by the FA for the England job.
"Who thought Derby County could be turned into League champions; that any manager could bounce back from getting the bullet after 44 days with a great club and go on to prove himself among the best managers of all time; that what was done at Derby could be repeated at Forest; that after winning one European Cup, we could retain it; that a brash, self-opinionated young footballer, cut down by injury in his prime, would go on to achieve more impressive fame as a brash, highly successful manager?"
"If I had an argument with a player we would sit down for twenty minutes, talk about it and then decide I was right!"
"I only ever hit Roy K**** the once. He got up so I couldn't have hit him very hard"
"At last England have appointed a manager who speaks English better than the players" - On the appointment of Sven-Goran Eriksson.
"Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes" - On England's exit from Euro 2000.
"Manchester United in Brazil? I hope they all get bloody diarrhoea" - On Manchester United's decision to opt out of the FA Cup to play in the World Club Championship in 2000.
"For all his horses, knighthoods and championships, he hasn't got two of what I've got. And I don't mean balls" - Referring to Sir Alex Ferguson's failure to win two successive European Cups.
"That Seaman is a handsome young man but he spends too much time looking in his mirror rather than at the ball. You can't keep goal with hair like that"
"I might be an old codger now and slightly past my best as a gaffer, but the FA would know they're safe with me. At least I'd keep my trousers on."
"If God had wanted us to play football in the clouds, he'd have put grass up there."
"On occasions I have been big-headed. I think most people are when they get in the limelight. I call myself Big Head just to remind myself not to be."
"The river Trent is lovely, I know because I have walked on it for 18 years."
"They say Rome wasn't built in a day, but I wasn't on that particular job."
"Walk on water? I know most people out there will be saying that instead of walking on it, I should have taken more of it with my drinks. They are absolutely right."
"When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair."
Since he left, we've fallen constantly to the position we are in today. He arrrived at the club, close to the bottom of the old second division and took virtually the squad he inherited to the European Cup. The equivalent of taking Sheffield Wednesday from where they are now, to the Premiership first season, then champions the next year, and the Champions League the year after that. And just to polish it all off, win the European Cup the next year as well. The man is a hero in Nottingham and a hero in Derby, not many people could do that.
He wasn't perfect, nobody is. His alcholism was his downfall, and in the end killed him, despite getting off it for the last few years. But he will never be forgotten by me, I remember the last radio interview he gave before his death, crying with laughter. The man truly brought warmth to everyone who came across him.
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