Part 1: Clough and Taylor conquer Europe (Football Nerd Retro Ramblings- The late 70’s and the 80’s when Football was really Football: Clough and Taylor conquer Europe.) Part 2: Bob Paisley and the legendary Anfield Boot Room dominate England and Europe (Football Nerd Retro Ramblings Part 2- Bob Paisley and the legendary Anfield Boot Room […]
It may have been surreal in the extreme with no fans, no atmosphere, substitutes socially distancing and wearing masks but this weekend after two very long months we finally got football back, or at least something that resembled the football we used to know and love. Of course, we all knew that if anyone could […]
Part 1: Clough and Taylor conquer Europe (Football Nerd Retro Ramblings- The late 70’s and the 80’s when Football was really Football: Clough and Taylor conquer Europe.) Part 2: Bob Paisley and the legendary Anfield Boot Room dominate England and Europe (Football Nerd Retro Ramblings Part 2- Bob Paisley and the legendary Anfield Boot Room […]
So far in this Coronavirus pandemic inspired series looking at the golden age of football obsession the late 70’s and early 80’s we have looked at Brain Clough and Peter Taylor (Football Nerd Retro Ramblings- The late 70’s and the 80’s when Football was really Football: Clough and Taylor conquer Europe.) leading Nottingham Forest to […]
Mrs Football Nerd and I desperately miss Orient, most of all our usual match day routine of heading up to the Leyton Star as early as is justifiable without being painted as the alcoholics that we probably are (although admittedly the Coronavirus lockdown and the apparent response of British society to drink through it suggests […]
Cards on the table time here: for all the enjoyment to be had in delving into the retro football archives and reminiscing in football nostalgia, I truly and deeply miss football. The way that it neatly gives you an almost parallel reality to normal life (whatever that means at the moment!) and gives us football […]
In the first part of this somewhat impromptu review and analysis of what for me was and always will be the golden age of football obsession: the late 70’s and the 80’s, I had a look at the dynamic management and coaching duo of Brian Clough and Peter Taylor and how they took humble Nottingham […]
First Daniel Levy and Tottenham caused ructions across not only the sporting world but also the wider scale British media when they became the first club brave/ wise/ foolish enough (please delete as appropriate!) to announce that they were going to cut the salaries of all non-playing staff by 20% and put them on furlough […]
“I wouldn’t say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.” The immortal, enduring and typically self-affirming words of the inimitable Brian Clough. As I wrote on this page last week, now that we are falling deeper and deeper into the football-less void brought on by the Coronavirus […]
Football Nostalgia seems to be the Way Forward. Given the unique circumstances in which we all find ourselves, confined to our homes except for the essential activities of shopping for provisions and exercising; it seems wrong to bemoan the lack of football given the hardships and restrictions we are all facing for the greater good. […]
