TOMMY DOCHERTY 90 YEARS+

On December 22nd 1972 Manchester United parted with another manager, Tommy Docherty. On a salary of £15,000 pa and in charge of the "holy trinity", Charlton, Best and Law. Tommy was sacked as he shared a moment with the wife of the club's  physiotherapist and probably due to bad results! He was replaced (in the managerial job) by Dave Sexton, who had taken over from him earlier at Chelsea!

A Scottish international, Docherty made his name playing first with Celtic in 1947, Preston North End from 1949, 324 times. He then played for Arsenal 83 times from 1958 and briefly for Chelsea in 1961. He turned out 25 times for his country and he helped the Lilywhites (PNE) win the Second Division title in 1951 and played in the 1954 FA Cup Final with Preston, losing to West Bromwich Albion 2-3.

During his time managing, Tommy was with 14 clubs from 1961 through to 1988. At Manchester United between 1972-77, "his" club was recovering from the O'Farrell campaign and was relegated to Division Two but returned to the First Division the following season. In Tommy's career in management he led from 1961 the following clubs:
Chelsea for six years, Rotherham, QPR, Aston Villa, Porto, Scotland, Man U for 5 years, Derby, QPR, Sydney Olympic, PNE, South Melbourne, Sydney, Wolves and Altrincham finishing in 1988. The rest were just short stays.
Tommy was 90 years old in April.
He won the Second Division with PNE 1951, Football League Cup 1965 with Chelsea, Man Utd 2nd Division title 1975, FA Cup 1977
and inducted into the Scottish Football Hall of Fame 2013.