Chief Wiggum
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My first ever game. I was hooked.
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[Albion] When we lost 2-8 to Bristol Rovers ...
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Nottseagull
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I don't claim to remember it or anything, but that fourth goal proves otherwise!
Pass me Hendo's Wintergreen. I need to sniff the vapour of inspiration. Nice hair, by the way.
Exactly. Clough was the archetype genius thwarted by the stuffed shirts to the detriment of everyone. Englishness in a nutshell.
Nottseagull
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Taylor was the genius when it came to player selection, but Clough was the superb man-motivator whose 20-minute one-to-one chats with players instilled extra determination in their game. A devastating combination which those stuffed shirts at the FA ignored, therefore costing us the 1990 World Cup (at least) following Ramsay's sacking.
Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
No way would Clough have lasted till 1990 as England manager !
Nottseagull
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Why? He was only 55 and got Forest to the FA Cup final the following year. He could have even had Taylor still by his side, because his sudden death wasn't until the autumn of 1990.
Megazone
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Why not? I wish he would. Anything's got to be better than what we're currently doing. I'd even start him.
Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Greenwood got the job instead of Clough in 1977. There is NO WAY Clough would have lasted from then till 1990. He'd have been sacked for calling a blazer a knobjocky, or insulting the manager of Lithuania. Which is why he never got the job in the first place. He was always far too volatile a character for the stuffed shirts at the FA to handle.
Nottseagull
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Oh, I see! But maybe an early success, possibly in the Euros, might have made them more tolerant? We definitely wouldn't have beaten Lithuania though, they were part of the USSR at that time.
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Clough was generally decent to other managers (apart from Revie, he loathed him) so I couldn't see him insulting countries' staff. FA bigwigs and bureaucrats are another matter.
But you're right, he wouldn't have lasted 13 months, let alone 13 years
daveinplzen
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Still vivid for me haha
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Yeah, just watched the goals again, the fourth was a keeper error. But the others weren't, the centre backs were all at sea, yet survived the cull (although Gall went at the end of the season)
