Whilst we are focussing on the relationship between Revie and Stokoe, it is worth noting that Stokoe and Clough had history. Tonight, Joe and Kevin were joined by Roger Hermiston, author ofClough & Revie: The Rivals Who Changed the Face of English Football to share an insight into their relationship and the many things they had in common. The game was a hotly contested affair, both teams had been promoted together in 64/65, and the rivalry was intense. In Andrew Mourants book Don Revie: Portrait of a Footballing Enigma, Bremner reveals:Id look, though I wasnt taking a lot in. Many years later, Stokoe disclosed that he had discussed the bribery attempt with his chairman before the game and was advised to say nothing. He idolised Middlesbrough players George Camsell and Wilf Mannion, and fell under the influence of Bill Sanderson, manager of a junior team, Middlesbrough Swifts. Revie then approached some of the Bury players directly, further incensing the Bury player-manager. Stokoe alleged that Revie approached him in the car park at Gigg Lane and offered him 500 cash to go easy. It has the looks of one of my mother's old pinnies!" On England . Some would take the dossiers seriously, though to others they were a joke. At the back of my mind, the bribe is always there. It is one of the most famous sporting interviews ever to take place on British television and it happened in the ITV Calendar studio in September 1974.The famous exchange between recently sacked Leeds manager Brian Clough and his predecessor Don Revie, was the inspiration for David Peace's best-selling novel The Damned United. Subscribe to ITV News on YouTube: http://bit.ly/2lOHmNj Get breaking news and more stories at http://www.itv.com/newsFollow ITV News on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/itvnews/ Follow ITV News on Twitter: https://twitter.com/itvnews Follow ITV News on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/itvnews/ If we had to sit there for three quarters of an hour listening to a dossier that may have been boring because we already knew the contents, then we were all prepared to sit there and listen. ', Revie also created brotherly spirit among the squad. The next, he began to transform them. The opposition player standing over him in many of the photos is Bob Stokoe, who was incensed at what he regarded as Cloughs attempt to kid the referee into awarding a penalty. I was there for the brilliant game at Maine Road, and of course Hillsborough, where we made Bob Stokoe cry by chanting his name, refusing to leave the ground until he came and gave us a wave. The FA fined Ball 3,000, even though he had ended up at Everton, and not Revie's Leeds. He knew damn well he was on his way out.' But it was Brian's scathing attacks on Don Revie and his team at Leeds United that caused Sam 'to fear that the Derby club was in for the high jump from the Football Association'. 'His training ideas were ahead of their time,' Lorimer agrees. The one timeI remember Don getting it wrong was when we played Real Zaragoza and he had the pitch watered because he didnt think the Spaniards liked to play in the wet, but we were two down after 10 minutes at Elland Road, recalls Gray. The walk out of the tunnel by the two teams led by their managers. When he turned him down, Revie further enraged him by asking to speak to his players. With his detailed files on every player, the Leeds legend showed Jose, Pep and even Marcelothe way. Looking back on this, I realise it was the first time I had come face to face with the fact that money power and connections can actually get you what you want. So next to Billy Bremners name it would say how many passes he completed in the first 15 minutes, how many tackles he made and what his work rate was like. He replaced the telephone receiver. There was a resounding victory over world champions West Germany and a 5-1 win against Scotland. Revie certainly is a divisive character within football. Ive even got dossiers on former players like Norman Hunter from his time at Bristol City, and on Leeds players that were being looked at for England in 1974/75, when Don was managing the national team.. Revie, unfortunately, had sustained a nose injury and missed the final. ', Having won promotion to the First Division in 1964, Leeds finished runners-up in both the League and the FA Cup in their first season back, and over the next decade never finished lower than fourth. In discussing the situation with Shankly, Stokoe let him know that Leeds were very keen and had offered over the asking price but he was reluctant to sell to Revie. The 44 days of Brian Clough and Jock Stein at Leeds Features The 44 days of Brian Clough and Jock Stein at Leeds 23/03/2021 by Steven Scragg Originally featured in the sold-out Leeds United magazine, support high-quality, wholly independent journalism by ordering our magazine. He was offered the job at his first love, Sunderland, in November 1972, despite the oft-repeated story that Brian Clough and Don Revie had both been interviewed by chairmen Keith Collings for the job. The club's followers maintain the spirit of defiance that Revie originated - particularly when it comes to the defence of Revie himself. The Earl of Harewood, who was Leeds president during Revies tenure, believed that the managers superstitious nature and negativity at times hindered the teams progress. It was really helpful to know what people were capable of, especially playing in goal, says former Leeds and Scotland goalkeeper David Harvey. 'What was called cynical in this country was called professional when the Italians played it,' Bremner said. I had skived school and lied to my parents about my whereabouts on 7th March 73. 'He didn't have a Bremner or a Giles and couldn't come to terms with the fact that he didn't have two players like that for the England team. Three months later Holland humiliated England at Wembley, Johan Cruyff and his team-mates at times toying with the home side - the 2-0 friendly loss was likened by the press to the famous 6-3 defeat by Hungary in 1953. He was 11 years old when WWII started, and not hard to imagine that this in some way helped to shape his character. You would think you would get to know if that sort of thing was happening, but certainly we never got to know anything. It's the type of TV moment that we'll probably never experience again. He boasted in the Mail of how he would spend his new salary. 'Thompson was an old Corinthian who always treated the manager like a serf.' 'It was a poor upbringing and that left him determined that everything went well later on the monetary side.' His first task - after changing the colour of the kit from royal blue to all white to emulate Real Madrid, the all-conquering European champions, a comparison considered preposterous at the time - was to purge what he later called 'a dead club' of its rotten core. They had class. But he was transferred to Sunderland in November 1956 and two years later, though he may not have recognised it at the time, came the crucial move in his career: a 14,000 transfer to Leeds. He was also, however, known as 'Don Readies'. In 1971 Sprake was involved in a drink-driving accident, seriously injuring a female passenger before fleeing the scene. A decade after Brian Clough's death, former friends and colleagues remember the man who "was always right". It's what keeps everything online free. Ive got dossiers on how the Leeds players need to react and operate against certain players depending on their own strengths and weaknesses, he says. The former Foreign Secretary grew up in Leeds and her father was an emeritus professor of Mathematics at the University of Leeds. 'They must have fixed lots and lots and lots of matches, because they won for at least 10 years,' he says. 'He went from 17 stone to eight stone in two years.' 'His conduct brought English football, at a high level, into disrepute. 'I was quite surprised by the amount of information they had,' Sprake says. But although his reputation was sullied, Revies legacy lives on today in theforward-thinking coacheswho use the same pre-match analytical toolsas he was 50 years ago. It was a wildly misplaced move. He had been unwell for some time with Alzheimers Disease. Please refresh the page and try again. Titles . Calculations of sunrise and sunset in Accra - Ghana for March 2023. 'I thought beforehand I was coming to a top club. 'I was never aware of it and I don't think any of our players were ever aware of it happening. Revie had already left to manage England, and with him the family spirit that Lorimer thought had underpinned their success. . Revie called the squad together: he said he was no longer 'Don', nor 'Mr Revie', but 'Boss'. Bob Stokoe, the Sunderland manager who had outwitted Revie in the 1973 FA Cup final, was the most compelling witness. Alan Ball, meanwhile, revealed clandestine meetings with Revie on Saddleworth Moor in the mid-1960s, when Revie wanted to sign him from Blackpool. Odds & lines subject to change. Stokoe told Revie where to put his 500. Players lose you games, not tactics. I was going through my dads stuff three or four years ago and I came across about 10 brown A4 folders dating back to 1964. His departure from the England post seemed to echo some of the less flattering allegations that persisted throughout his career as a manager. Our victory and my delirium at this pre-occupied me, until Revie was in the news again as his spectacularly unsuccessful tenure as England manager came to an almost bizarre finish in 1977. Revie was born in Middlesbrough in 1927, a few streets away from where, just seven years later, one of his greatest adversary's Brian Clough was born. He stopped playing in 1964 and managed Bury for one more season, before spells managing Charlton, Rochdale, Carlisle and Blackpool. Born: 11th January 1957, Chester-le-Street, County Durham. Certainly money had always been an issue for Revie. It wasnt the dossiers,it wasnt the pre-match meals and it wasnt the bingo. But that is a tale for another day. Thanks to the dossiers we were able to build up a good mental picture of what to expect before we got on the pitch, so they were really important.. With Len Shackleton, Billy Bingham (the first Sunderland player to play at a World Cup, in 1958) and Billy Elliott (assistant coach of Sunderland in the 1973 Cup Final) as teammates, this might have augured well on the pitch. When Brian Clough arrived at Leeds in the summer of 1974, he immediately set about trying to remove all traces of his predecessor from the ground. Inhis autobiography, former keeper Gary Sprake referred to the dossiers as mind-numbing. The overly superstitious Revie famously had a fear of ornamental elephants and feathered birds, and once summoned a gypsy to Elland Road to remove a curse that he believed had been placed on the ground to stop his side winning. 'Don Revie's so-called family had more in keeping with the mafia than Mothercare,' Brian Clough said. . Revie made a small fortune in the middle East before returning to the UK in 1984. With many of the great 1960s managers retired or at the end of their careers, Revie was arguably the finest in the country. Stokoe knew he was going to have to sell his prodigious talent, and had approached Bill Shankly to see if he was interested. 41 F. RealFeel 31. So Revie determined to secure his future.
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