OCCUPIED COUNTRY

Farewell

So long Cloughie. You were definitely a one-off. In an age of spin infecting every aspect of football these days, to read Ol' Big 'Ead every month in 4-4-2 magazine or hear his rare interviews on 5Live, was a breath of fresh air. An honest opinion, given without recourse to the polish of a PR machine to buff his words into meaningless diamonds.

One of the great managers of the post war era up there with Shankly, Paisley, Busby, Mercer and, dare I say it, Ferguson.

A sad day.