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Driving up North yesterday morning and fiddling with the car radio I chanced upon Talksport. You’ll never guess what one of their audience participation questions was......
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Originally posted by mirko bolesan View PostI 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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There seemed to be a belief that if you played under a great manager, his magic dust would make one of you. Hence the over-representation of Revie and Ramsey players, and now Ferguson ones.
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Originally posted by 1974ddr View PostAnd can I rename the thread 'Famous players you wish you'd forgotten were ever managers'?
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Originally posted by Amor de Cosmos View PostTo complete the 1966 picture. Ray Wilson had an inauspicious period at Bradford City.
George Cohen and Roger Hunt appear to be the only members of that team never to have dipped their toes into managerial waters.
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Originally posted by 1974ddr View PostAnd can I rename the thread 'Famous players you wish you'd forgotten were ever managers'?
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Does Remi Garde count as a famous player?
And can I rename the thread 'Famous players you wish you'd forgotten were ever managers'?
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Originally posted by Rogin the Armchair fan View PostReading 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.
Bobby Charlton failing at Preston was one of my "Santa isn't real?" moments from childhood. I was just old enough for the end of his playing career, but had seen very little TV coverage of him in action. He was a hero through football annuals and sticker albums, which made him all the more infallible in the imagination.
The notion that he could get sacked from anything was like ... well, England not going to the World Cup. A mean trick played by lying grown-ups.
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Ronnie Whelan's managerial career was short and unusual, two years at Southend followed by a couple of years traveling around the lesser known backwaters of Greece and Cyprus
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Frank Worthington's time in charge of Tranmere is often forgotten. So is Arthur Albiston's tenure at Droylsden FC although that's more understandable.
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Adrian Heath belongs in the category of 'Famous players you'd forgotten'
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Adrian Heath seems to be a forgotten manager over here but has had success in the US and currently has an MLS gig.
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Gerry Armstrong spent four years managing Worthing in the Isthmian league in the early '90s.
Sami Hyypia managed to turn Brighton from Championship playoff contenders to relegation candidates in a matter of months before Chris Hughton replaced him. I think he was at Leverkusen before that.
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Asa Hartford was also at Stockport for a while, I remember him glaring at me at the Old Showground when I was obviously discussing his hole in the heart a little too loudly from a few rows back. I also remember him being extremely foul mouthed.
David Platt seemingly had good credentials for management, being reasonably intelligent, good experience as a player with some good managers (Taylor, Wenger, Robson, Eriksson), but his management of Nottingham Forest was pretty disastrous, his England U21 stint was a little better, but otherwise he was just Bobby Mancini's mate at Man City, and most recently a brief stint at FC Pune in India.
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Originally posted by Ray de Galles View PostThough I can’t find any record of it so must be mistaken.
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Originally posted by Giggler View PostHe'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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b11lJ0sKTdU
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Gary Neville and Alan Shearer must both wish they and everyone else would forget their attempts at management.
Dietmar Hamann spent four months as manager of Stockport, and his Wikipedia picture is of him during this period looking completely terrified outside Tamworth's ground.
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To complete the 1966 picture. Ray Wilson had an inauspicious period at Bradford City.
George Cohen and Roger Hunt appear to be the only members of that team never to have dipped their toes into managerial waters.
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Originally posted by Janik View PostI 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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Gordon Banks - Telford
The late Paul Futcher at Darlington
Viv Anderson at Barnsley
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