Works for meIn a parallel universe where mutant thugs didn't turn up at Heysel, Everton have gone on to collect every trophy since Rotterdam.
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1. SAF
2. Busby
3. Shankly
4. Clough
5. Paisley
Kendall belongs at 6th or 7th for me. I personally respect managers more when they arrive to manage nothing teams and turn them into title winners as opposed to someone who takes over an already winning side and improves them. Also think Catterick belongs in the top 10 because Harry had better win percentage points Shankly, Revie, Nicholson or Busby stretching across the entire decade where they all overlapped.
2. Busby
3. Shankly
4. Clough
5. Paisley
Kendall belongs at 6th or 7th for me. I personally respect managers more when they arrive to manage nothing teams and turn them into title winners as opposed to someone who takes over an already winning side and improves them. Also think Catterick belongs in the top 10 because Harry had better win percentage points Shankly, Revie, Nicholson or Busby stretching across the entire decade where they all overlapped.
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Harry is the top manager pointswise for the 60s - nobody got more.
Edit; but that all happened before football was invented in 1992
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That's what I meant sorry. Think of what an achievement that is considering the managers he was up against. Didn't win as many trophies as the others but his sides were most consistent and well-balanced. Nothing short of a disgrace how he's been erased by the national press.
Totally agree with you. What he did at Aberdeen was simply amazing. 10 major thropies, including 3 League titles and one european cup speaks for itself.
Bluebonic
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Plus his Aberdeen euro trophy was won by beating Real Madrid in the final! Outrageously good manager!
StreetEndBlue
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I'd go for Shankly, Ferguson and Clough in no particular order.
Shankly started the ball rolling for what Liverpool became. He transformed a mediocre second division club into what became a world power (unfortunately). Alex Ferguson's achievements both North and South of the border speak for themselves. He even managed to break the Old Firm domination in Scotland, the last manager to do so.
And I don't think anyone will repeat what Brian Clough did at Forest. Taking a bottom 6 second tier club to double European champions in no time whatsoever, plus plenty of other trophies. Cloughie was a genius but had a touch of madness about him too.
Shankly started the ball rolling for what Liverpool became. He transformed a mediocre second division club into what became a world power (unfortunately). Alex Ferguson's achievements both North and South of the border speak for themselves. He even managed to break the Old Firm domination in Scotland, the last manager to do so.
And I don't think anyone will repeat what Brian Clough did at Forest. Taking a bottom 6 second tier club to double European champions in no time whatsoever, plus plenty of other trophies. Cloughie was a genius but had a touch of madness about him too.
Think I'd vote for Sir Alex tbh
MARK SMITH
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Even though I would have loved Kendall to win, I looked at it as who would you have wanted as Everton manager from that list. It has to be Clough, what a ride that would have been. We were rumoured to have interviewed Clough and Robson, don't know how far the interest went.
The answer is obviously Ferguson.
Stan Lee Park
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No question of the number 1 - Sir Alex Ferguson.
Catterick, Clough and Kendall all up there as they took over moderate squads at best and turned them into champions, unlike Paisley and Dalglish who both inherited teams that were ready made champions.
A special mention for Bill Nicholson, who turned Spurs into the first double winning team of the twentieth century when no team had managed a double for more than 60 years with a team that invented the pass and run style (maybe by learning a few things from the Hungarian side of the early fifties).
Catterick, Clough and Kendall all up there as they took over moderate squads at best and turned them into champions, unlike Paisley and Dalglish who both inherited teams that were ready made champions.
A special mention for Bill Nicholson, who turned Spurs into the first double winning team of the twentieth century when no team had managed a double for more than 60 years with a team that invented the pass and run style (maybe by learning a few things from the Hungarian side of the early fifties).
Strangely Catterick has 0% of the vote??!?!
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