Jamo Martinez
Player Valuation: £70m
I've always liked talking about teams (not just Everton) from a particular era. Everyone's got memories of great teams that made an impact on football and/or maybe for some personal reason. Could be Brazil of 1970, Revie's (dirty) Leeds, Bobby Robson's Ipswich, Danish Dynamite, Holland/Ajax of Cruyff/Rinus Michels, Sacchi's Milan, Arsenal's invincibles or maybe even Wimbledon's crazy gang. There's loads of material out there for a knowledgeable and passionate group of footie fans such as we have on this fine forum.
I've decided to start with Coughie's Forest as they were the opposition on my first visit to Goodison. My brother told me an absolute truth around that time. You don't need 11 good players to make a good team. It obviously follows that you don't need 11 great players to make a great team. Nobody personified this truth better than Brian Clough. Combining excellent players like Shilton, Archie Gemmil, John Robertson and later Trevor Francis with good or very good players like John O'hare, Viv Anderson and Tony woodcock and what I would describe as yard dogs like Kenny Burns, Larry Lloyd and Peter Withe. The result was infinitely greater than the sum of it's parts.
Over the course of 3 seasons, Forest won a league title, 2 European Cups and 2 League Cups and (maybe more important) bloodied the nose of our loveable neighbours.
Too outspoken for the suits at the FA, Clough was never offered the England job. Another 'what if...' story.
I've no real idea about the ins and outs or finer details of management or how a partnership like this works but everything I've read suggests it would be criminal to underestimate the contribution of Peter Taylor. They were together at Derby County earlier and won a league title there aswell.
Hopefully some of you (err, older members) have more insight and better memories than me.
I've decided to start with Coughie's Forest as they were the opposition on my first visit to Goodison. My brother told me an absolute truth around that time. You don't need 11 good players to make a good team. It obviously follows that you don't need 11 great players to make a great team. Nobody personified this truth better than Brian Clough. Combining excellent players like Shilton, Archie Gemmil, John Robertson and later Trevor Francis with good or very good players like John O'hare, Viv Anderson and Tony woodcock and what I would describe as yard dogs like Kenny Burns, Larry Lloyd and Peter Withe. The result was infinitely greater than the sum of it's parts.
Over the course of 3 seasons, Forest won a league title, 2 European Cups and 2 League Cups and (maybe more important) bloodied the nose of our loveable neighbours.
Too outspoken for the suits at the FA, Clough was never offered the England job. Another 'what if...' story.
I've no real idea about the ins and outs or finer details of management or how a partnership like this works but everything I've read suggests it would be criminal to underestimate the contribution of Peter Taylor. They were together at Derby County earlier and won a league title there aswell.
Hopefully some of you (err, older members) have more insight and better memories than me.
