A genius who was decades ahead of his time.

I spent many happy Saturday afternoons in the boys stand in the late 60s and early 70s watching the best team in Europe for three bob!

I idolised him then, I idolise him now and till the day I die and beyond.

Basically he invented the modern game.

"I spent many happy Saturday afternoons in the boys stand in the late 60s and early 70s watching the best team in Europe for three bob!"

And the whole team for under a million!.

Away for a few days and was discussing it with the current and got a tear in my eye just talking about it, best thing the Labour Party have ever done was stopping him going to Everton in 73, we can thank the beast of bolsover,

comment by AndDonRevieistheKing (U7852)
posted 11 minutes ago
Away for a few days and was discussing it with the current and got a tear in my eye just talking about it, best thing the Labour Party have ever done was stopping him going to Everton in 73, we can thank the beast of bolsover,
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Explain Adrik, I’d love to hear that story.

With United's directors in heated discussion about how much they were prepared to offer Revie to persuade him to stay, there came an intervention from a completely unexpected quarter on Wednesday, 23 May.

In an astonishing turn of events, Dennis Skinner, the radical Labour MP for Bolsover, raised the issue in the House of Commons, asking Secretary of State for Employment, Maurice Macmillan, whether the matter would be referred to the Pay Board.

This was a body set up by the Conservative Government, along with the Prices Commission, under the Counter Inflation Act 1973 in an attempt to control wage inflation. The Price and Pay Code, which the Pay Board was responsible for monitoring, stipulated that new recruits to existing jobs should not be paid more than those they replaced and pay rises should be limited to £250 per annum.Robin Chichester-Clark, Minister of State for Employment, said in a written reply to Skinner that 'the details of remuneration applicable to this appointment were not known'. A spokesman went on to confirm that there would be a full probe into the matter with the Pay Board consulting the secretaries of both clubs to verify whether the figures being reported in the press were accurate; there would then be 'close scrutiny of the relevant answers to see whether the Price and Pay Code had been offended'.

It may have been pure coincidence, but by Friday, 25 May, Everton's pursuit of Don Revie had fallen apart; the Evening Post broke the news under the headline: 'Revie says: I'm staying.

comment by JackCharlton (U19203)
posted 2 hours, 18 minutes ago
A genius who was decades ahead of his time.

I spent many happy Saturday afternoons in the boys stand in the late 60s and early 70s watching the best team in Europe for three bob!
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You can watch a team that’s two bob on Sunday when we visit you.

Hope you beat us so we can avoid the Europa conference and you can stay up.

Never forgotten, didn’t just build a team he built a city, god bless you Don

^^^

Amen Don.

I grew up around Sheff UTd & Sheff Weds fans
within my own bleeding family. Steelworkers.
My Dad's Welsh.

He didn't care for all of our relatives blabbing
on about how great the Sheff teams were.

He grew up idolizing John Charles. In turn,
he had me thinking the world of Charles, Wales
and Leeds United (and Juventus). He took me
to see the end of Don's reign but I was way too
young too know WTF was going on.

That was it though. Fell in love with Don's
Leeds United and everything LUFC and Leeds
from that point on. Followed them ever since.

The reality is, he gave us everything we have today.

He gave us the success, the history, the best team in Europe, the famous names, the nicknames, the white strip, the movies, songs.....we owe him everything.

Yeah the club were going nowhere….

We’ve got an ageing, overweight schemer with a basin haircut, ponderous and slow….thinks he’s got a plan?!

We’ve got a small right winger, slow and can’t beat a man…general consensus among the fans “he’s useless” plus he’s got ginger hair….