Neil Warnock - The Man, his teams, his players, our Messiah......out-takes [Part Two]

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NEIL WARNOCK​

The man made of Sheffield steel now talks to deer! Welcome to the world of​

• 17 Dec 2010

Niggles:
United boss Warnock upsets Sammy Lee... ... faces the accusing finger of Paul Jewell at Wigan... Tractor boy: Neil Warnock the football manager (main picture) and enjoying life away from the game with son William at his property in Cornwall...

HE was born in Sheffield and raised in Sheffield, he supported Sheffield United as a boy and then managed Sheffield United for eight years, so when it came time to title his autobiography, Neil Warnock understandably chose: Made In Sheffield.

Sitting in a swanky Italian restaurant in Knightsbridge on Tuesday, Warnock said: ‘I wish I had come to London sooner; London has almost been like a drug, I honestly feel at times that I am on a high.’

It was a statement Warnock once would not have imagined making and given that the front page of Wednesday’s Northern Echo raged ‘Robbed: Our cuts pay for rich South’, the North-South divide in England retains its punch. Yet here was an identifiably northern man singing a hymn to London.

And it was sincere. Warnock was 62 a fortnight ago but he looks and sounds much younger. He is refreshed and relaxed. The sourness at Sheffield United’s controversial 2007 relegation has drained from him, it seems, and even being in charge of a club as unpredictable as Queens Park Rangers — Warnock became their ninth manager in four years when he joined in March — has not made him twitchy.

But the fact that QPR are four points clear at the top of the Championship, with a game in hand, and have just lost their first League game of 20 this season is the main reason why Warnock laughed and smiled as he picked the bones out of his fish — and his career.

Asked about the billionaire hierarchy at Loftus Road, which has got through Paul Hart, Jim Magilton, Paulo Sousa, Iain Dowie and Luigi De Canio in the past two years alone, Warnock replied: ‘I know it sounds silly but I’m not that bothered now.

‘I get on with the job and if they sacked me, I’d get another job tomorrow when you look at the managers around. I wouldn’t worry about being out of work like I did when I was younger.’
Bernie Ecclestone confirmed yesterday that he has taken his Rangers shareholding to ‘about 62 per cent’ by buying out Flavio Briatore, and said: ‘I am here mainly to support what Neil is doing.’

Warnock expects no alteration to his authority. He deals mostly with Lakshmi Mittal’s son-in-law Amit Bhatia. Mittal owns 20 per cent.

.....‘When you have gone 19 games without defeat, there is not a lot they can say really,’ said Warnock......

Where Are They Now? Notts County's Second Division play-off winners 1990-91 - The League Paper

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Never in a month of Sundays did Notts fans believe they would be promoted two seasons on the trot....

NOTTS COUNTY had to watch on as city rivals Forest became the best team in Europe under the legendary Brian Clough.

But under Neil Warnock. they enjoyed back-to-back promotions via wins at Wembley against Tranmere Rovers in 1990 and then Brighton & Hove Albion a year later.

It would make Warnock – who had taken Scarborough into the Football League – one of the hottest young managers around. He even turned down jobs at Chelsea and Sunderland.

Mark Draper......

“He was like a breath of fresh air and I know we weren’t everyone’s cup of tea with the way we played,” he said.

“He has gone on to prove he is one of the very best managers outside the Premier League, if not the best.

“He was a genius at picking people to play with each other and fitting them into the jigsaw of how we wanted to play. He took players who had been around and managed to get the very best out of them.

“But he wouldn’t have people who didn’t do a job and work their socks off. If you didn’t pull your weight, you know you wouldn’t be playing.”

“The semi-final against Middlesbrough was a tight two-legged affair, which we won with a Paul Harding header late on. He didn’t get many headers.

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Happy times at the Blades:

NEIL WARNOCK’S TAKE ON THE 1995 PLAY-OFF FINAL

An exclusive interview with former Huddersfield Town Manager Neil Warnock

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NEIL WARNOCK’S TAKE ON THE 1995 PLAY-OFF FINAL ​

28 May 2021

.......What do you think of when you hear Neil Warnock and Huddersfield Town? That half-time team talk at Shrewsbury? Andy Booth and Ronnie Jepson? Or the 1995 Play-Off Final win?

Well, the former Huddersfield Town Manager caught up with #HTTV to give his own personal take, and some stories that have not previously been revealed, on that incredible afternoon at Wembley Stadium in 1995.

After beating Brentford dramatically in the Play-Off Semi-Finals, Town faced Bristol Rovers for a chance to be promoted to the second-tier of English football.

Warnock, a man who had previous Play-Off success in his career, explained that he used that to his advantage.

“I copied exactly what I did when I was at Notts County. I booked the same hotel, the Hilton overlooking the ground.

“We went to the Belfry for three or four days the week before to take their minds off it, to have a game of golf, a laugh, a joke, a night out in a nightclub.

“I said to Ronnie Jepson make sure you keep hold of Darren Bullock won’t you, he’s your responsibility. I think he had Bully by his hand in the nightclub!,” laughed Warnock

“When we came back, I told the lads get all your tickets for your family sorted and out the way, I don’t want anything coming into our thoughts next week from Tuesday onwards.

“They came back and Tuesday onwards they were spot on. I just knew we were a better team than Bristol Rovers.”

After excellent preparations, Town travelled down to London ready for the Final.

Arriving at the Hilton hotel the day before, Neil explained what he did to make sure his players weren’t overawed by the occasion on the day of the game.

“I knew everybody at the Hilton, so on the morning of the match, I’d sorted the lads out. I slipped some people a few quid, so they let us take the kit down to Wembley early.

“I gave our lads a voluntary on whether they wanted to come but made sure most the lads came when we put the kit out.

“We shouldn’t have done that, but they came in and saw the dressing room, went out and had photographs on the pitch when it was empty, and we got that out of the way.

“I could tell the lads were ready. We had a laugh on the pitch about pictures and things like that. I remember Jon Dyson asking me if I wanted a picture and I said ‘no, no I do this regularly Jon’. It was good to get that out of the way.”

Knowing the jokey, close-knit nature of his squad, Town’s Manager, even on the day of the Play-Off Final, decided to ease the pressure on his players.

“At lunchtime, 12pm, when we had our pre-match food and video, we could see all the fans coming down Wembley Way; it was fabulous.

“The IT guy said, ‘I’ll put the video on of Bristol Rovers’, but I said, ‘oh no, I’ve got one here’.

“We put Chubby Brown on and that took their mind off it. We had a laugh for 30 minutes at Chubby Brown and got on our way to the ground.”

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Not just in England.....​

Premier Leagues mest kontroversielle manager: – Han så ikke på treningene​

https://www.tv2.no/a/10017535/

Publisert 18.08.2018

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