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
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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."
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