May 13, 201313 yr I think by the end of his career mourinho will be right up there. The champions league win with Porto was a huge achievement and to a lesser degree Inter. A few more to come as well I reckon.
May 13, 201313 yr Shanks took LFC from bottom of the 2nd division, small crowds, 2nd in the city, to the biggest club in Europe. Liverpool were 10th of 22 in the second tier when Shankly took over. They finished third (with 2 to be promoted), and third again the next season, before winning that division in 1961-62. The four seasons before he arrived they had finished third, third, fourth and fourth.
May 13, 201313 yr Cloughie for me, 2 European Cups at a club that shouldn't even be there. Fergie won 2 in 27 years at the richest club in the world, in a era where 20% of the league qualifies for the competition.
May 13, 201313 yr Cloughie for me, 2 European Cups at a club that shouldn't even be there. Fergie won 2 in 27 years at the richest club in the world, in a era where 20% of the league qualifies for the competition. plus being cheated in the semis when at Derby.
May 13, 201313 yr I think by the end of his career mourinho will be right up there. The champions league win with Porto was a huge achievement As was Tony Barton's Euro win for Villa, but I don't hear him mentioned as the greatest ever. Looked a bit like Mourinho though
May 13, 201313 yr Anyone for Herbert Chapman. An FA Cup win and then 2 league titles with Huddersfield, a club with no history. And then the same again with Arsenal - their first ever titles. For cunning see this description of the Jack transfer: "We arrived at the hotel half-an-hour early. Chapman immediately went into the lounge bar. He called the waiter, placed two pound notes in his hand and said: "George, this is Mr Wall, my assistant. He will drink whisky and dry ginger. I will drink gin and tonic. We shall be joined by guests. They will drink whatever they like. See that our guests* are given double of everything, but Mr Wall's whisky and dry ginger will contain no whisky, and my gin and tonic will contain no gin." (*Bolton directors!) If this story (which gets trotted out on a semi regular basis) is true then how did our pissed up directors manage to get a then record fee for the player? A fee nearly double the previous record BTW.
May 13, 201313 yr "The Damned United" is on BBC4 on Thursday at 9pm. That's about Clough, refering to LeedsU not the other one!
May 13, 201313 yr "The Damned United" is on BBC4 on Thursday at 9pm. That's about Clough, refering to LeedsU not the other one! Part of it filmed in a friends house in Delph
May 13, 201313 yr Paisley & Clough are both dead. Died at an average age of 73. Fergie's 71. fuck me traf do we have to wait 2 years
May 13, 201313 yr fuck me traf do we have to wait 2 years Fergie's dad lasted 12 months after he retired
May 13, 201313 yr Don't make a Martyr out of the cunt - there'll be a campaign for canonization from Kearsley to Kuala Lumpar (apologies to Kearsley Whites)... I'd prefer a long drawn out descent into pissed up senility with plenty of trouser pissings, filter diminished racist/sexist/homophobic/offensive to the disabled public comments, falling asleep on playing fields and all the rest. Edited May 13, 201313 yr by Youri McAnespie
May 14, 201313 yr Don't make a Martyr out of the cunt - there'll be a campaign for canonization from Kearsley to Kuala Lumpar (apologies to Kearsley Whites)... I'd prefer a long drawn out descent into pissed up senility with plenty of trouser pissings, filter diminished racist/sexist/homophobic/offensive to the disabled public comments, falling asleep on playing fields and all the rest. He already ticks most of these boxes.
No disrespect, but who is the best ever?