Mark Crossley - story about Brian Clough & David Currie.

[atomicloonybin aka ALB]

Worth your time.

 

[The vomiting vicar]

:ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

 

[guisborough_rob]

Brilliant. Absolute quality.

 

[boropie]

been working with dave currie this week, hes a nice man to to talk to.
hes been telling us some good stories aswell, i said to me mate we wont mention the carlisle miss., but we did and i showed him the photo of it.
and he told us that i never realised carlisle went straight down the other end and scored

 

[atypical_boro]

My favourite Clough story was Proc's, after being dropped.

Plucked up the courage to knock on his door and ask "Gaffer, why have I been put in the second team?"

"Cos you're too f'kin good for the third team son."

 

[kuepper]

When Cloughie was manager of 'Pool I once got in a 'behind closed doors' game v Stan Anderson's Boro at Hutton Road training ground. I was stood on the touchline near Cloughie and tho I was used to swearing I'd never heard anyone swear so much in my life and stll haven't to this day

 

[changingman]

It's the "what's your name son?" that gets me.

Such a straightforward way of asserting your authority on a situation. Might try it at work :ROFLMAO:

 

[Alan_Breck]

What a man, what a man manager, what a character and yes he was better than Shankly

#UTB

 

[Otto42]

been working with dave currie this week, hes a nice man to to talk to.
hes been telling us some good stories aswell, i said to me mate we wont mention the carlisle miss., but we did and i showed him the photo of it.
and he told us that i never realised carlisle went straight down the other end and scored

Did he confirm this story from Norman Crossley. I liked Currie, one of my favourite players (after Heine ofcourse) in those dark days and was genuinely disappointed when we let him go to Darlo.....he was capable of the sublime (goal v Newcastle) and ridiculous (miss v Carlisle)

 

[TeessideCleveland]

Has anyone read Brian Laws’s autobiography when Clough put him on at left back for Stuart Pearce?

 

[Rofesleg]

Has anyone read Brian Laws’s autobiography when Clough put him on at left back for Stuart Pearce?

I would have thought so

 

[TeessideCleveland]

I would have thought so

That’s all I needed to know - thanks mate

 

[HarryVegas]

I love the tale of him dealing with Vinnie Jones' ghettoblaster.

 

[atypical_boro]

That’s all I needed to know - thanks mate

Not sure if I know this one?

 

[TeessideCleveland]

Not sure if I know this one?

Laws had just signed for Forest and was sub
Pearce made a mistake after 20 odd minutes and Clough put his hand on Laws’s knee and said ‘Can you play left back Lawsy?’
Put him on for Pearce fairly soon after and spent the rest of game shouting ‘Brilliant Lawsy’ ‘That’s how you play left back’ etc
After the match Pearce was leaning against wall fuming - and after a while Clough went up to him and touched his chin and said ‘You wouldn’t hit an old man would you Stuart?’

 

[Chemicalworker]

I think these stories are about 80% apocryphal

 

[atypical_boro]

Laws had just signed for Forest and was sub
Pearce made a mistake after 20 odd minutes and Clough put his hand on Laws’s knee and said ‘Can you play left back Lawsy?’
Put him on for Pearce fairly soon after and spent the rest of game shouting ‘Brilliant Laws’s’ ‘That’s how you play left back’ etc
After the match Pearce was leaning against wall fuming - and after a while Clough went up to him and touched his chin and said ‘You wouldn’t hit an old man would you Stuart?’

Is the Ivano Bonetti story in the book?

 

[TeessideCleveland]

Is the Ivano Bonetti story in the book?

Yes