Going to have to watch that now.
Teesside successes?
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Bill Shankly and Jock Stein were not Glaswegians.
Ingleby_Flash
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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.
Cogeur_le_Conq
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Didn't Bill Shankley play for the Boro just after the war?
Abel Tasman
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Going back to Don Revie and his upbringing on Bell Street. Article here with extracts from his autobiography where he mentions going to Ayresome Park as a boy. I never knew Middlesbrough Swifts had scouting links with Leicester City hence why he left the area to sign for the Foxes before become that master tactician at Man City devising the Revie Plan.
www.scotsman.com
The Don’s last home - remembering Don Revie’s Scottish links
Thirty years ago, Don Revie died in an Edinburgh hospital. Right until the end, Scotland played a big part in the life of the former Leeds and England manager. Daniel Gray’s article first appeared in Issue 12 of Nutmeg, a Scottish football quarterly publication available by subscription at...
Wiseman_Vaughn
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I don't think so. I think Revie lived somewhere close to Newport Bridge and Clough beyond Clareville stadium.
Just from memory though - I might be wrong
Wiseman_Vaughn
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I haven't heard that name mentioned for years and years. Me mam knew him from Portrack
Wiseman_Vaughn
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This book is well worth a read!
buffaloboro
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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 .
Ex pfc wintergreen
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Cloughie was outgoing, don readies less so, also left England under a cloud after signing a deal to work in Saudi behind the fa’s back and gave an exclusive to a newspaper. The fergie of his day for gamesmanship and manipulation,
Wiseman_Vaughn
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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.
Norman_Conquest
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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.
Wiseman_Vaughn
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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!
Ex pfc wintergreen
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Big jack admitted he wouldn’t spend either, old history now
Norman_Conquest
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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.
www.greatnorthairambulance.co.uk
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
Ex pfc wintergreen
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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.
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