Going to have to watch that now.
Going to have to watch that now.
Bill Shankly and Jock Stein were not Glaswegians.Ferguson, Stein and Shankly are always banged on about in terms of their Glasgow heritage, why not this from our place?
Steph sat at an adjacent table at a restaurant on Wednesday, in Harrogate, physically a smaller person than I expected. Very nice and smiley,pleasant, I’d say pretty but I’m not sure you’re allowed to complement people on their looks any more.It's great to see the likes of Steph McGoven and Kay Murray doing really well too. In days gone by their Teesside accents would have stopped them being a broadcaster.
I don't think so. I think Revie lived somewhere close to Newport Bridge and Clough beyond Clareville stadium.Might be wrong but I think clough and revie grew up on the same or next street from each other..
I haven't heard that name mentioned for years and years. Me mam knew him from PortrackAnd Giggy moon
As posted , just bought it 2nd hand.
Criminal that 2 of the greatest managers of all time came from Middlesbrough but didn't manage the club.As posted , just bought it 2nd hand.
I think , at least for me , the bigger picture re all these people is that I wish there was some system of promoting them so that kids get the sense that they could also have ago.
In time , all will be forgotten but the sense of history , location and respective drive that they all had , should not be .
I wouldn’t have swapped Charlton for Clough at the time.Criminal that 2 of the greatest managers of all time came from Middlesbrough but didn't manage the club.
What might have been, eh? We could have been Notts Forest winning League titles and European cups.
II agree. Charlton was very close to winning the league but the ambition from the club was just not there. All ifs and buts but we can dream!I wouldn’t have swapped Charlton for Clough at the time.
Clough started at Forest around 1975, Charlton never left until 1977.
Clough had already put his team together at Forest when Charlton left and won the European cup when John Neal was in charge of us. Charlton and Neal are are remembered as two of our best managers.
People had pride then,that's why they scrubbed their steps,I'm from the slums down there,we lived where Asda is now, outside bog and a tin bath on the backdoor..some of my relations are still living down there in the Dutch houses.Eric Taylor deserves a mention on this thread. Eric is a South Bank lad who recorded anything and everything with his trusty camera. Eric recently published a book of his photographs and donated all the money to the Air Ambulance. Even if you aren't from South Bank, this book is worth a look at. The picture I have copied and pasted below (I hope you don't mind Eric) is one of my favourites. It was taken looking down Normanby Road towards the Commercial Hotel. In the background, you can see Smollens, Standley's Pet Shop, the barbers, and many others.
All these have been knocked down in the name of progress (A66 & Asda) and was one of the last nails in the coffin of South Bank as a thriving town.
Look how clean the streets look.
Teesside photographer donates £5,500 book proceeds - Great North Air Ambulance Service
Eric Taylor has raised £5,500 for the Great North Air Ambulance Service (GNAAS) after generously donating all the proceeds from his book to the charity.www.greatnorthairambulance.co.uk
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