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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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. […]
Over thirty years ago in the days before Channel Four popularised Italian Football in this country, a quite remarkable story emerged from the exotic seeming Serie A, one that captured the imagination of this at the time teenaged football obsessive. None other than Diego Armando Maradona, disillusioned after a 2 –year stint at Barcelona characterised […]
Maybe it is some form of football midlife crisis (Mrs Football Nerd seems to think so), but recently I have been spending more and more time engulfed in a wave of football nostalgia. This has been sparked by a couple of things: first was the discovery of the absolutely excellent English Football in the 80’s […]
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