I looked for Boris Johnson's auto in Waterstones but I couldn't find it. Then a helpful shop assistant told me it was in the fiction departmernt
Probably the most entertaining football autobiography was that of Alan Rough. Not a great goalie but a great character. His escapades when he would sneak out of the team hotel for a drink, and try to avoid his manager to get back in are hilarious.
Partick Thistle. Bertie Auld was the manager who would wait at the hotel to catch him, but Rough would see the cigar glowing and climb in the window.
Assuming he did not have to grab the window handle! All joking aside, to have British eleven, I would have Souness and Dalglish in it. Archie Gemmill would have to be in the squad.
So, who would the manager be? Shankly, Paisley, Stein, Fergie or Clough? They all have unique achievements on their CV.
I'd have to go for Fergie after he transformed a struggling team. Although Clough's achievements with Forest were staggering, but only for a limited period unlike Ferguson.
Clough also had success at Hartlepool and Derby, whom he took from Div 2 to League Champions. Fergie had success at East Stirling (Took them bottom to top of the lowest league) St Mirren (promotion) Aberdeen ( 3 League trophies, and a few Cups and the Cup-winners Cup, beating Real Madrid in the final) before Manu. Shankly didn't win so many trophies but built a dynasty. Stein won the European Cup with a team of local lads.
I'll give you that with Clough and Fergie's history aside their two main clubs. Paisley had an incredible record, Stein did not stay in England long enough to see if he could prove himself at a higher level.
The thing about Fergie, Cloughie and Stein is that for all their achievements, all the clubs they managed went rapidly downhill when they left, whereas Shanks built a dynasty that went from strength to strength after he left, so for me he gets the gig.
