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  • Gangster Octopus
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    Originally posted by nmrfox View Post
    Emlyn Hughes at Rotherham (sorry GO)
    I think that we were the only people who mourned him when he died...

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  • Giggler
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    Originally posted by ursus arctos View Post
    Stiles managed Preston North End for several seasons before rocking up at Vancouver Whitecaps prior to WBA
    He's on the opening titles of Granada Kick Off from a period in the 70s in a game versus Bury at Gigg Lane. I'll dig it out on YouTube when I'm home.

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  • Greenlander
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    Originally posted by Rogin the Armchair fan View Post
    As did Alan Ball (but we all remember him in a coat on the sideline in various places).
    Not sure about the coat but he always wore a specific type of hat when he managed against Argyle.

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  • nmrfox
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    Emlyn Hughes at Rotherham (sorry GO)

    Mind you, Frank McLintock was bloody hopeless at Leicester, ripping up Jimmly Bloomfields glorious side of the early seventies and getting us relegated with one of the (then) lowest points tallies in Division 1 history.
    Last edited by nmrfox; 24-10-2018, 14:46.

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  • wittoner
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    And continuing the 66 theme, It's often forgotten That Sir Alf Ramsey had a stint in charge of Birmingham City after being sacked by England.

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  • slackster
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    The 3 Lions who won the ‘66 World Cup for West Ham all had short-lived managerial stints.

    Bobby Moore had an awkward spell at Div 4 Southend, Geoff Hurst bumbled along at 2nd division Chelsea for over a season, and Martin Peters took over from Harry Haslam at Sheff Utd during which period they dropped to Div 4.

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  • Ray de Galles
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    TV’s and sexism’s Andy Gray had a short stint as Ron Atkinson's assistant manager at Villa which is oft-forgotten. I recall him being in the frame for the main job at Everton at one point too.

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  • Rogin the Armchair fan
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    I should have moved to Preston 30 years before I did. Turns out Bobby Charlton had a go there too in the 1970s. As did Alan Ball (but we all remember him in a coat on the sideline in various places).
    Last edited by Rogin the Armchair fan; 24-10-2018, 13:06.

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  • Janik
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    Originally posted by Ray de Galles View Post
    I thought that headline was a deliberate reference to one decades earlier, but from a game against Rangers?
    I think the story was the newspaper in question had already thought it up ready for an Old Firm game (Coisty rather than Calley) but that no match had panned out quite right for them to employ it. So it was sitting there in reserve when the Cup shock happened, and got repurposed. They did reuse it for a subsequent game when McCoist scored a number of times in a one-sided affair.

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  • mirko bolesan
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    I forgot that (now pundits) Chris Sutton (Lincoln) and Mark Lawrenson (Oxford) were once managers.

    Not sure why but I'm continually surprised every time Alex Ferguson's stint as Scotland boss comes up, probably because the history I remember says he went from Aberdeen directly to Man Utd - he did but was also Scotland manager at the time. (I clearly remember Ferguson was a manager, however)

    Neville Southall being joint manager of Wales (alongside a host of Kent non-league clubs) is also an odd one these days..

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  • Ray de Galles
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    Though I can’t find any record of it so must be mistaken.

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  • ursus arctos
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    Stiles managed Preston North End for several seasons before rocking up at Vancouver Whitecaps prior to WBA

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  • Ray de Galles
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    I thought that headline was a deliberate reference to one decades earlier, but from a game against Rangers?

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  • Janik
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    Barnes also managed Tranmere (which I know without looking up), and was still applying for other jobs a few years ago. It's not his choice that he hasn't been a manager continually for the last 20 years. Him and Dalglish at Celtic was pretty memorable, for the wrong reasons. That was the genesis of the Super Caley Go Ballistic headline.

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  • Famous players you'd forgotten were ever managers

    Reading an article about the post-1966 careers of England's world cup winners, it mentioned that Nobby Stiles was West Brom's manager in 85-86. I'd totally forgotten that. I literally have no recollection of him in a dugout. That season did have an extensive TV blackout, which might be part of why I don't remember. Any others (and the klaxon goes off for John Barnes at Celtic)?
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