Quote Andy Gilder="Andy Gilder"He hated the way that Leeds side played the game, not Leeds itself, not Leeds as a club, not the players individually. He had an enormous amount of respect for their ability, read the section on it in Clough's biography.'"
We'll have to agree to differ on that one, especially the bit about him not hating the players individually. I've read stuff, including players autobiographies, where he was less than complimentary about them individually
Quote Andy Gilder="Andy Gilder"What he did was point out where each and every one of those players could still improve. They clearly didn't take well to criticism, coming from the Revie school of "no-one likes us and we don't care".'"
"You can throw all your medals and caps away, you won them all by cheating" How's that critisicism that's constructive and going to help you improve. That's indicitive of Clough's managerial style, and won that anybody could see was never going to work. Maybe Revie did take things too far, but you don't/can't go into any club and change things overnight.
Quote Andy Gilder="Andy Gilder"With a team of players with hugely inferior reputations, Clough won two European Cups. What might he have achieved with the "most successful club side of the previous decade" if they hadn't let their own preciousness get in the way?'"
Who knows? What might they have achieved if Clough hadn't let his preciousness and ego get in the way? It's pretty basic management stuff to not completely change something's that's working overnight, which is what he tried to do. If he'd have gone about things differently, made the changes over the course of a couple of years he'd have probably done it, but he went into it like a bull in a china shop and the end result was entirely predictable.
