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Some People Are On The Pitch (Free subscription) | 11/21/2008
Passing the baton 15 Great Managers Of British Clubs And The Equally Great (Or Not So Great) Men That Replaced Them When They Left 1. Ron Atkinson replaced by Ronnie Allen at West Bromwich Albion, 1981 2. Dave Bassett replaced by Bobby Gould at Wimbledon, 1987 3. Matt Busby replaced by Wilf McGuinness at Manchester United, 1969 4. Brian Clough replaced by Frank Clark at Nottingham Forest, 1993...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
Serbia's patron saint of lost causes is now their exalted saviourRaddy Antic is working the same magic with Serbia that served him so well at Real, Atlético, Barcelona... and LutonOne day, perhaps, Radomir Antic will be given a job that doesn't involve damping down a crisis. Ron Atkinson once described himself as football's Red Adair, but really, when it comes to reinvigorating desperate causes,...
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Manchester Evening News (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
... the United youth ranks in Danny Welbeck.It was April 1985 when the Irish and Welsh link up helped Ron Atkinson's side overwhelm Stoke 5-0 at Old Trafford. The Reds repeated that demolition on Saturday and Mancunian Welbeck's scorcher was the highlight.Cristiano Ronaldo, who was only nine weeks old when Big Norm and Sparky grabbed three between them, said: "Danny scored a fantastic goal -...
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Football Kits Online (Free subscription) | 10/26/2008
... went in” Terry Venables “The Spaniards have been reduced to aiming aimless balls into the box” Ron Atkinson
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Rick Eyre now (Free subscription) | 10/24/2008
... mean it, some of them don't deserve to live," the man dubbed Mad Max by one his former employees, Ron Atkinson, ranted on Spanish radio. When the presenter reminded Gil that he had recently had bypass surgery and advised him to calm down, he retorted: "I'm sick of people telling me to relax. They can stick my heart up their arses." That is surely one of sport's most enduring images.Those...
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Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | 10/24/2008
Four times now he’s been involved in incidents which have led to red cards – and three of them have been for the kind of challenges Big Ron Atkinson liked to call a “reducer”.
