I'm also saddened by Jose's departure. I sink he is good man, I sink he is good manager, I sink he is funny at times, I sink he is like a baby sometimes.

Fuck Chelsea though.

I also sink that walking is not such a bad idea when there's a £25million pay-off to be had. You are the sief of my ausority, but I am the sief of your wallet.

Seriously - £25m. What. Se. Fuck.

simmo wrote:And yes, Sleepkid, I reckon I wouldn't mind him taking his Clough-sized ego to Forest.

It would be a beautiful thing. Two quick promotions, and back in the Premiership proving to everyone that he could do it without the money, and with a talentless lot of. . .

. . . sorry.

It hurts me that Nottingham Forest are so low. They were European Cup Winners for crissakes!

daniel robert chapman wrote:Danny Baker and Danny Kelly will be podcasting a phone-in show this season. This could be brilliant - last season I listened to recordings of the classic Talk Radio show and laughed and laughed. Judging by the suggested subjects on that web page they're going down the same path - even to the point of the exact same subjects (you know what's inside a medicine ball, I heard that women saw it in half on your show) - but with their fondness for tangents I'm sure it'll be good listening.

On a low-key night, I listened to the first three episodes of this tonight. It doesn't disappoint. If you enjoyed Simmo's dad's reviews, or tales of football the way it used to be, or are a fan of the English language being tilted, or of digression as a form, or of African footballers named 'Danger Fourpence', then I recommend you get with this programme. Forty-five minutes weekly, search iTunes for 'Baker Kelly'.

I slapped my thigh several times as I laughed out loud.

Aye, it's a real shame about Mourinho. Real character, who I will miss if he goes abroad, which is looking likely.

New NUFC manager?

hoho

On the subject of Clough, this was on another forum I go on:

http://www.itvlocal.com/yorkshire/sport/

It's Clough just after being sacked from Leeds really early on in the season, with him is Don Revie. Canny funny.

NB. I tried watching it again but it wasn't working, hope it works for other people.

Mr Hall, I think I've seen that video, and it's dramatized towards the end of the book 'The Damned United', refered to earlier in the thread and well worth the read. It's a crazy thing, and the book handles it handily. What forum is there these days for two football managers to talk like that? There isn't one. I'll bet it's on YouTube but I just Bobby Byrd'd myself out of YouTube and am off to bed.

From memory:

"I wanted to win it better!"

"It isn't possible to win it better!"

So revealing, about both of them, two of the most neurotic football managers there ever were.

chairman_hall wrote:On the subject of Clough, this was on another forum I go on:

http://www.itvlocal.com/yorkshire/sport/

It's Clough just after being sacked from Leeds really early on in the season, with him is Don Revie. Canny funny.

NB. I tried watching it again but it wasn't working, hope it works for other people.

There's a recent acquisition to the grounds of the park where I walk my dog, Albert Park, in the form of a statue of Mr Clough:



My mother is the same age as he would have been and used to know him as a kid. She and her friends would go and watch him and the lads play football in Albert Park when they were kids. Imagine if there was a statue to one of the people you used to knock about with when you were kids in the place you used to knock about in... must be a strange intimation of mortality. And probably a bit depressing to see dogs wee on it. The man in the photo is not usually there - not when I'm there anyway.

daniel robert chapman wrote:From memory:

"I wanted to win it better!"

"It isn't possible to win it better!"

Also from memory:

Clough: "I believe in a different way of playing football to you Don. I believe in a football utopia, i believe in fairies."

Legend.

I'm glad that's a statue of Clough the footballer, specifically, rather than the manager. It's often forgotten what a great goalscorer he was before his injury, aged what, twenty-six or something? He could have been the greatest English goalscorer of all time given six more years.

Which part of the North-East is that John? I don't know Albert Park and I forget your exact location.