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I’ve decided to pick my moment to retire very carefully – in about 200 years’ time.

Brian Clough

Come and see my coaching certificates – they’re called the European Cup and league championships.
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Coaching Cups League
Telling the entire world and his dog how good a manager I was. I knew I was the best but I should have said nowt and kept the pressure off ‘cos they’d have worked it out for themselves.
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Dog Game Sports Tell World
For all his horses, knighthoods and championships, he hasn’t got two of what I’ve got. And I don’t mean balls!
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Horse Mean Soccer
Bill eventually became Mr Tottenham Hotspur, and produced such a dazzling team at White Hart Lane that they won the double and played the game in a way that was an object lesson to everybody.
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Games Team White
Anybody who can do anything in Leicester but make a jumper has got to be a genius.
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Genius Jumpers Leicester
If any one of my players isn’t interfering with play, they’re not getting paid.
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Interfere Paid Player
On occasions I have been big-headed. I think most people are when they get in the limelight. I call myself Big Head just to remind myself not to be.
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People Soccer Thinking
I’m sure the England selectors thought if they took me on and gave me the job, I’d want to run the show. They were shrewd, because that’s exactly what I would have done.
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Done Jobs Running
Being thick isn’t an affliction if you’re a footballer, because your brains need to be in your feet. And Beckham works hard, he’s brave and he crosses a ball superbly. He treats a football like he does a wife, lovingly, with caresses.
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Football Hard Soccer Work
They love me for what I’m not They hate me for what I am.
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Games Hate Love Sports
If a chairman sacks the manager he initially appointed, he should go as well.
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Should Soccer Wells
When I go, God’s going to have to give up his favourite chair.
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Favourite Game Giving Soccer Sports Up
You don’t want roast beef and Yorkshire every night and twice on Sunday.
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Country Night People Sunday
I’m dealing with my drinking problem and I have a reputation for getting things done.
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Beer Done Drinking
We had a good team on paper. Unfortunately, the game was played on grass.
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Games Sports Team
If a player is not interfering with play then he shouldn’t be on the pitch.
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Game Interfere Play Player Sports

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