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[Football] Tommy Docherty RIP

















vegster

Sanity Clause
May 5, 2008
28,273
RIP Tommy, amazing character and marvellous communicator, he had a great innings !
 




One Teddy Maybank

Well-known member
NSC Patron
Aug 4, 2006
23,003
Worthing
Turned Utd round after their relegation.

Didn’t he run off with the physio’s wife?

True character - RIP


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Lower West Stander

Well-known member
Mar 25, 2012
4,753
Back in Sussex
RIP.

He used to live just up the road from me on the outskirts of Manchester. I remember the press scrum outside his house when he got caught having his affair with Mary Brown. Cost him the Man U job although I think they were still together before he died.

A true legend of the game and a real character. Although he had real flaws he was a true football man who had his teams playing a really attractive style.
 


Ooh it’s a corner

Well-known member
Aug 28, 2016
5,557
Nr. Coventry
A real character and a great football man. I may be misquoting but I think it was he who said after another of his sackings or misdemeanours
One door closes..... .another one slams in your face!

Always good value - RIP Tommy
 


Gwylan

Well-known member
Jul 5, 2003
31,836
Uffern
A true legend of the game and a real character. Although he had real flaws he was a true football man who had his teams playing a really attractive style.

This is true: that Chelsea team of his played with some real swagger and his United team used two wingers, just when many teams were ditching them.

One of the last football characters, RIP
 




Met him once when he was manager of Aston Villa and were playing Arsenal. They were having their prematch meal at a hotel I was working aat in Seven Sisters Road which is now a block of flats. Friendly chap, happy to stop for a chat.

RIP Tom
 


Jam The Man

Well-known member
Jul 5, 2003
8,226
South East North Lancing
Strangely enough, whilst sitting here waiting for my covid test result, I watched the new Denis Law documentary on Sky today. Pretty good it was too
Towards the end they mentioned Tommy Docherty, being his last manager at MUFC. So I wondered, is The Doc still alive?
Wikipedia confirmed it so 👍 92 years old in fact.
Yet evidently not, poor chap.
RIP The Doc
 




POSKETT AT THE VALLEY

Well-known member
Jan 16, 2010
1,064
Isle of Wight
Motorway services encounter

Met the great man at a motorway services on the way back from an away game many years ago. He was QPR manager at the time. I had the distinction of sharing a urinal with Tony Currie and Steve Wicks.
 




Icy Gull

Back on the rollercoaster
Jul 5, 2003
72,015
Great wit as well as charismatic manager.

I’ve had more clubs than Jack Nicklaus
 


GREASED WEASEL

New member
Dec 10, 2017
2,893
RIP

His United side stopped Liverpool from doing the treble

Classic Cup Final that

3 goals in the space of about 5 minutes

Seem to remember a photo of TD with the lid of the Cup on his head
 


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