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Holloway: Paisley the Real Special One

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Why Bob Paisley is still the real special one all these years later

Ian Holloway
3 Mar 2013 07:30
Sir Alex Ferguson and Jose Mourinho will battle it out at Old Trafford on Tuesday, but both are striving to match Paisley's standards
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Special one: Bob Paisleywon three European Cups
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Bob Paisley is still the only manager to lift the European Cup three times.
And it probably would have been four had the great Liverpool boss not decided to retire in 1983 and leave behind a team that were to become kings of the Europe again under Joe Fagan the following year.
What an unbelievable achievement for a quietly spoken man from Durham who was worried whether he had what it took to succeed Bill Shankly.
The advent of the Champions League means that European football has changed beyond all recognition from the 1970s and 1980s.
Teams today have to overcome the grind of the group games before entering into the cut-throat business of knock-out football.
But don’t forget that in Paisley’s day, it was a Champions’ Cup in the true sense of the world. You didn’t get in it by finishing second, third or fourth in your domestic league.
It says everything about the standards that Paisley set that two of today’s managerial greats are still desperately trying to match him.
 
Ian Holloway came in for a lot of slagging round these parrts but I really like the guy and he has been always very respectful of Liverpool.
 
A really nice bloke, amiably bonkers:


The most memorable Ollie-isms

"To put it in gentleman's terms, if you've been out for a night and you're looking for a young lady and you pull one, you've done what you set out to do. We didn't look our best today but we've pulled. Some weeks the lady is good looking and some weeks they're not. Our performance today would have been not the best looking bird but at least we got her in the taxi. She may not have been the best looking lady we ended up taking home but it was still very pleasant and very nice, so thanks very much and let's have coffee."
QPR boss Holloway came up with the quote of the century to describe his team's lacklustre performance against Chesterfield in 2003.

"Every dog has its day - and today is woof day! Today I just want to bark."

"If we're talking lookalikes, he's Toad of Toad Hall, isn't he?"
Holloway had his own ideas on what Avram Grant should be called after he took over from Jose Mourinho at Chelsea.
"I couldn't be more chuffed if I were a badger at the start of the mating season."
Holloway was quite pleased after QPR beat Cardiff.
"I watched Arsenal in the Champions League the other week playing some of the best football I've ever seen and yet they couldn't have scored in a brothel with two grand in their pockets!"
On Arsenal failing to take their chances from a match in 2006.
"I think the Bosman thing is a pile of donkey dung."
BBC Sport columnist Holloway contemplates one of the biggest changes in football in 2007.
"It's still in my body and I'll have to pass it at sometime but my passing's absolutely diabolical. That's what I told the doctor: "What chance have I got of passing anything - did you see me play?!"
Holloway speaks about his kidney stone in 2007.
"He's six-foot something, fit as a flea, good-looking - he's got to have something wrong with him. Hopefully he's hung like a hamster! That would make us all feel better!"
"'I have such bad luck at the moment that if I fell in a barrel of boobs I'd come out sucking my thumb."
 
They shot the wrong Kennedy was one of the greatest quotes ever from a manager.
 
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