Ah that's a shame, a real throwback to "when football was football"!Larger than life sums him up I think.
Quote from: Dave Cooper on October 15, 2010, 01:11:23 PMAh that's a shame, a real throwback to "when football was football"!Larger than life sums him up I think.Can I use 'larger than life' for the crap phrases that is on off topic?
I guess he's one of those blokes that if he was involved at your club you'd have a lot of affection for him.Personally I always thought he was more style over substance, the Fedora, cigars and pool parties with porn stars generating more headlines for him in the UK than his limited achievements as manager.Fine if you were a struggling club as the likes of Palarase and Bristol Rovers were, when any publicity is good publicity. But not really what the game should all be about at the top level.BFR often takes stick for the perma tan and champagne image but at the heart of it all he's football daft with an encyclopaedic knowledge of players, old matches and facts- as Bobby Robson and most other managers who achieved any success were. You need to have that almost obsessive love of the game.Allison walked away at various stages saying he was bored - football always seemed secondary to him.
RIP I only saw him on TV last night in the Bobby Moore story..