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White Van Jan said:
Always thought what he achieved at Aberdeen was absolutely amazing.

Him and Jim McLean at Dundee United overachieved massively.

It’s well known that he grew up a massive Rangers fan. I did speak to him once about his time with them, he was very scathing about the Dirsectors there. I’ve read since that one of them asked whether he married in a Catholic Church, actually it was a registry office so apparently “that wasn’t so bad”.

Jock Stein, Cektics greatest ever manager, always said sign the prod because Rangers would never even look at a catholic. He was a prod himself.

I never got the idea that it was only his wife that put the kybosh on him coming to Spurs btw.
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Aye, his wife Cathy had the final say I believe. Happy wife, happy life I suppose. I do also think he wanted to win another European trophy too. He’d won the Cup Winners Cup in 83, the Super Cup in 84 (as well as the League and Cup double) and had came close in Europe again. So I doubt it was all down to her.

Sliding doors for both clubs as we ended up with Peter Shreeves and Aberdeen eventually suffered the nightmare of Ian Porterfield. The odd high point aside, pretty much unfulfilled promise from both clubs for the past almost forty years.

Jim McLean was amazing, yes. He was a scary fucker. Looked quite mild mannered until he opened his mouth and had a look that he could put on that turned you to stone. Remember being a ball boy once at an Aberdeen v United match. Must have been 11 years old maybe? just before kick off, he wandered up to me smiling, the turned that look on and growled “no fucking about son, I’m fucking watching you”, keep the gaze on me for what seemed like a month and then strode off. I shat myself. Think I was still shaking the following week. 😂
 
That was a ridiculous season.

5th May - 5-0 win against Kilmarnock in the league.
11th May - 2-1 win against Real Madrid to win the ECWC.
14th May - 5-0 win against Hibs.

We finished the league in 3rd, on goal difference to Celtic and a point behind Dundee Utd.

The Cup Final was on the 21st May, the end of a very busy run of games. Players were fucking knackered. Rangers were utter shite and the match reflected this. Ferguson just said what we were all thinking, but he did later apologise.

Aberdeen were just amazing in the early eighties. Good times.
 
TonySoprano said:
I think he interviewed or was approached for the Spurs job around the time Pleat got it but never went for it.

Could have been a different world had he taken the job.
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Agreed with Scholar to come to Spurs, yes. His missus didn’t want to move, so they stayed up in Aberdeen.

Would have thought his wife would want to move away from the local newsreader that Fergie was regularly pumping, but apparently not.
 
Impressed at the respect being shown here. I hope he can recover. He stopped Arse and Chavs winning too many titles. More importantly, he’s a big family man with plenty around him. Hope they all pull through this.
 
Sad news.

Couldn’t stand him as a manager, but mainly because he was so good at doing whatever it took to win. I’ve always respected him though. The “lads, it’s Tottenham” quote was insulting, but at the time not only was it an accurate assessment of our ability to bottle things, it also clearly worked. Of course it could have just been a simple observation.
 
Fucking depressing.

Will be in my thoughts. An absolute giant of the game and the greatest manager in the history of the sport.

Legend.
 
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