I had thought about doing something on Partick Thistle, since EuroMillions Lottery Winner (£161 million) has invested money into the club, has got divorced and "married" the club, but you will read about that in the press. The good news is that he has resisted allowing "foreign" investors "helping out" Thistle, a group that has interfered with Nice and Barnsley. You don't get this pair of clubs mentioned in the same sentence very often.
I also wanted to add to the Barry Hines story (see previous) that he also played for Crawley Town FC while he was in the London area for his first teaching assignment.
Some to bring you down to earth here's some quotes from Brian Clough.
'The River Trent is lovely. I know
because I've walked on it for 18 years.'
'I wouldn't say I was the best
manager in the business....but I was in the top one.'
'Telling the entire world and his dog
how good a manager I was. I knew I was the best but I should have said nowt and
kept the pressure off because they’d have worked it out for themselves
About how he dealt with anyone bold
enough to disagree with him:
'We talk about it for 20 minutes and
then we decide I was right.'
About the importance of playing on
the deck
'If God had wanted us to play
football in the clouds he would have put grass up there.'
About what he was going to call new
signing Teddy Sheringham:
'I’m calling you Edward because
that’s what it says on your birth certificate.'
'Ah yes. Frank Sinatra. He met me
once you know!'
About dealing with Roy Keane:
'I only ever hit Roy the once. He got
up so I couldn't have hit him very hard.'
About the job he should have had:
'I’m sure the England selectors
thought if they took me on and gave me the job, I’d want to run the show. They
were shrewd because that’s exactly what I would have done.'
About Sven getting his England job:
'At last we’ve appointed a manager
who speaks English better than the players!'
'David 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.'
'Telling a player to get his hair cut
counts as coaching as far as I’m concerned.'
About the offside rule:
'If any one of my players isn't
interfering with play they're not getting paid.'
'Rome wasn't built in a day...but
then again I wasn't on that particular job.'
About Eric Cantona's kink-fu attack
on a fan at Crystal Palace :
'I'd have cut his balls off.''
About his drink problem:
'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.'
AND FINALLY
'When I go, God's going to have to
give up his favourite chair.
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