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Title: RIP, Dave Mackay Post by: tikay on March 03, 2015, 08:11:18 AM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Mackay (http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/11/21/article-1088232-0007DBD700000258-45_468x323_popup.jpg) Title: Re: RIP, Dave Mackay Post by: tikay on March 03, 2015, 08:18:38 AM (http://sixtiescity.net/Wembley/spurs12a.gif) (http://archive.mehstg.com/player_photos/dave%20mackay.jpg) (http://i2.dailyrecord.co.uk/incoming/article5261779.ece/alternates/s1023/JS58214127.jpg) (http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/03/02/264256B300000578-0-image-a-52_1425337932181.jpg) (http://www.johnbarber.com/graphics/lineup.jpg) (http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03217/Mackay2_3217608c.jpg) (http://www.nottinghamforest.co.uk/cms_images/dave-mackay-4340-248826.jpg) (http://static.goal.com/1031100/1031132_heroa.jpg) Title: Re: RIP, Dave Mackay Post by: booder on March 03, 2015, 09:57:37 AM R.I.P Dave.
Title: Re: RIP, Dave Mackay Post by: Karabiner on March 03, 2015, 10:21:23 AM Truly great player even if he did play for "them".
RIP Dave Makay. Title: Re: RIP, Dave Mackay Post by: TightEnd on March 03, 2015, 10:35:12 AM I was only little when i was aware of Mackay, when he went to Derby
the story of Clough/Mackay was of course told in "the damned united" How Clough, who was younger than Mackay, went to Mackay's house, convinced him that his legs had gone and persuaded him to go to Derby. There, he turned him into a sweeper, and a team elader than was the lynchpin that won them the championship then, when Clough and Longsdon fell out and Clough left, Mackay was appointed manager often, when that happens, the team falls away but Derby then won the championship again under Mackay football was in another era, but when you look at pictures like the below you do realise what a sport it must have been to watch in those days (http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03217/Dave_mackay_3217606b.jpg) mackay spoke about the photo "“He was a brilliant little player but a dirty little b******. He kicked me in the leg I’d just come back from breaking twice. If he’d kicked the other one, I could have accepted that. But he kicked the broken one and that really annoyed me. I could’ve killed him that day.” what happened? ""In the end the referee just gave us a talking-to, for which I was relieved," Mackay said "I had got away with it and was so happy, because it maintained my record of never having been sent off. I may have been dirty sometimes, but I never got sent off in my whole life, even as a schoolboy." Title: Re: RIP, Dave Mackay Post by: tikay on March 03, 2015, 10:55:23 AM ".....football was in another era, but when you look at pictures like the below you do realise what a sport it must have been to watch in those days....." The memory plays tricks, Rich, but yes, it seemed very different then. Great big centre halves, & equally big centre forwards, man on man, there was almost always a keenly anticipated clash between those two. Forwards like Francis Lee could not be pushed around. It was quite physical, & tackles were hard. I don't ever recall seeing shirt-pulling, "simulation", diving, or nasty little ankle tappers. Pretty sure the memory plays tricks though. (http://www.mightyleeds.co.uk/images/19721118hunter.jpg) (http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/10/13/1413214148114_wps_66_THIS_IMAGE_HAS_NOT_YET_BE.jpg) (http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/06/03/article-2647645-00D9614700000190-217_634x456.jpg) (http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/06/03/article-2647645-00D961D400000190-386_634x439.jpg) (http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/03/05/article-1159791-03C286BE000005DC-851_468x420.jpg) Title: Re: RIP, Dave Mackay Post by: redsimon on March 03, 2015, 10:59:00 AM Amazing he never got sent off, imagine if was playing today he'd be red carded a lot?
Was pretty unsuccessful as a manager for us but him going to Derby when he did probably helped us end up with Cloughie and several trophies! RIP Title: Re: RIP, Dave Mackay Post by: TightEnd on March 03, 2015, 11:00:27 AM you are going to get me going now
i think mackay was manager when this happened i remember seeing it as a youngster, and watching (football focus?) open mouthed the classic fight begins at 1.00 YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPZnXgKl70I one of my first matches was that season, leicester v leeds at filbert street under lights, leeds all in yellow. |