Friday 22 November 2019

BRIAN CLOUGH, BARRY HINES, COLIN WEIR


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.
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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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