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[Rob Noxious]

Dean Saunders, in good raconteur mode, about Brian Clough's efforts to sign him in the early '90s. In this link is a link to a radio podcast about it ... worth the effort > http://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/football/dean-saunders-reveals-how-brian-11837688

 

[EastStandBlue]

[Barna] Dan Taylor @ The Grauniad sums this up perfectly - https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/sep/07/brian-clough-dean-saunders-nottingham-forest [/Barna]

Not only is it not exactly in good taste to try and dine off another man's illness, but the vast majority of it isn't even true.

 

[Rob Noxious]

[Barna] Dan Taylor @ The Grauniad sums this up perfectly - https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/sep/07/brian-clough-dean-saunders-nottingham-forest [/Barna]

Not only is it not exactly in good taste to try and dine off another man's illness, but the vast majority of it isn't even true.

Interesting. For the record, I have nothing but respect for Mr Clough - the greatest Manager England never had.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Interesting. For the record, I have nothing but respect for Mr Clough - the greatest Manager England never had.

Nice guy with a very quick wit.

I was standing at the back of the enclosure at Fulham, (in what is now the Johnny Haynes stand), just underneath the DB, ( where he was in the front row) as manager of Notts.Forest, back in '75.

He was very good both at taking and giving stick.

 

[Rob Noxious]

Nice guy with a very quick wit.

I was standing at the back of the enclosure at Fulham, (in what is now the Johnny Haynes stand), just underneath the DB, ( where he was in the front row) as manager of Notts.Forest, back in '75.

He was very good both at taking and giving stick.

I think that we were lucky to grow up seeing him become the best Manager in the League. Even in the difficult years, he still held it together long enough to develop sides that (as the Taylor article refers to) included fine footballers like Roy Keane and "the number nine", i.e. his reference to Nigel.

 

[Rob Noxious]

Dan Taylor is one journalist whose work I do enjoy reading. However, I was very surprised to see a glaring error in his article on John Stones (ahead of England's WCQ) in last Saturday's Guardian. He referred to James Milner as one of England's three outfield players "who did not play a single minute in Euro 2016." As we know, Milner came on in the last ten minutes or so in the first group game against Russia and rushed into closing down the fella who slipped him and put the cross over for their big centre-back to score the looping headed equaliser. Dear old David Lacey would have been shaking his head at that journalistic howler.