ISN'T it funny how the most difficult people can inspire the greatest loyalty in those they lead?
Brian Clough may not have won prizes for diplomacy, but he was obviously a great football manager and much loved by the players he daily harangued.
Martin O'Neill, now an admired manager himself, recalls how as a player he was dropped from the first team to the second by Clough.
Aggrieved, he asked the boss why he had done that. "Because you're too good for the third team," he was told. Needless to say, O'Neill led the eulogies on Monday.
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