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- Don Revie is one of the most successful football managers of his generation. Having transformed Leeds United from a second division outfit into a major, trophy-winning force in English football, Don was appointed manager of the England national team - the successor to Alf Ramsey.
When, in 1977, Don announced that he was quitting the England job to accept a lucrative post as manager of the United Arab Emirates side, his reputation in England was forever tarnished. Now manager of the Dubai-based club side, Al-Nasr, Don opens up to Nationwide reporter James Hogg about his life in the UAE, and his plans for the future.
Originally broadcast 11 May, 1982.
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Born and raised in the Boro, like Mr Clough. Amazes me that our daft little town contributed to a pretty significant part of English football.
_”daft little town”_ 😂 too cute
I nursed don revie till he died,my privilege and honour his family was his life ,my thanks to rulers of dubai for looking after him and his family cc
Thanks Gladys
As a millennial I never heard of Don Revie but known him from the Damned United, always knew who Cloughie was
He was breast fed?
@@simmonds246seek help, weirdo...
@@matthancock260my commiserations regarding being a millennial. Potentially the unluckiest generation of modern times...
A great news piece. Genuinely balanced and informative. A much misunderstood man who one imagines in the current era would have a lot more respect and love shown in his direction.
He died 7 years later Though his funeral was well attended by representatives of Leeds United and many others involved in football such as Kevin Keegan, Brian Moore, Lawrie McMenemy, Denis Law and Alex Ferguson, The Football Association did not send any officials to the funeral.
Sums the FA up. They go rid of Alf Ramsey because he failed in 74 despite all he had done. Alf & Don knew their worth & would not broke any interference & eventually they get their own back. Jealousy.
Joe fagan as well. Not sure if Bob Paisley was there
His son Duncan died aged 62 in 2016.
There's a line in here that sums pretty well I think the country's real feelings towards Revie. "With few exceptions, players and managers have (forgiven him). Perhaps conceding that they might well have done the same themselves (took the job in UAE)." He escaped a horrific job for a fantastic one. That simple.
Don was no doubt experiencing burn-out at the time due to the pressures of English football and saw an easier option. Can't blame him
i skipped school several times to see them train on Fullerton Prk, managing to get all the autographs several times over, Billy once said 'you were here last week weren't you'. Don would always sign too. i wrote him a letter in 68' asking to be a ball boy and got a nice reply signed by Don himself, i still have the letter to this day. A wonderful man way ahead of his time that many were envious of.
I really admired Don Revie. In those days you couldn’t turn down England. It’s very different now of course. What a great team he built at Leeds. Thank you for looking after Don at the end of his life. He was a much loved man.
Now footballers can’t wait to get to Dubai at the end of each season!!
I had criticism of him too at the time … but when you know the full story , it turns out he was all right .. and obviously a great manager at Leeds ..
Perhaps a visionary . If you look what’s happening now in the Middle Eastern football
he died 7 years after this interview so at least he enjoyed it while he could. His son Duncan who he mentioned graduated from Cambridge died in 2016, life is short.
Sad story
very sad
Sad to hear that.
To all thé people who really knew Don Revie, he was without question thé greatest Manager who ever lived.His basic common sensé, his knowledge thé way he trente-deux all his players like his Sons, and to me he was thé best Friend and all his immédiate family that anyone could ever wish for.I will never forget him.Dudley
yeh that is tough
The Al Nasser Ultras out in force for te local derby.
Your shi ite and you know you are.
Thanks for posting.
The press turned me against Don Revie, and as a Forest fan and remembering (or at least hearing about) his spats with Brian Clough, I felt no great warmth to him. That changed when I read a book a few years ago (I think called 'Get It On'), with its retrospective view of the seventies from an impartial stance. It made me think again about my views of this manager. I am pleased I chose to watch this video because once and for all, it made me realise what a great man he was and what a contribution he made to English football. So rather belatedly I say RIP to a misunderstood, brave and loyal man. On a slightly bizarre note, he died the day my son was born.
He almost came back to manage QPR in 1984, after Alan Mullery was sacked in December 1984, but in the end it didn't come to anything.
Good fact, that.
Don revie a manager ahead of time fantastic motivator you couldn’t blame him going to Dubai he came from a poor background what a job he did at Leeds
Legends like Don and Brian were misunderstood. Ive never forgiven the media of the uk for how the treated Don or Brian. Great man Rip Don 🙏
A great, great man- no question.
One of the greatest managers ever
Other managers didn't try to bribe teams to loose
@@seanbonella garbage
The DON a gentleman a LEEDS UNITED legend a man who was way,way head of his time put Leeds United 🦚 on the World 🌎 stage the first Manager to bring European style of football to the UK. A man who brought an average football club going nowhere to been ONE of the best football clubs the World 🌎 has ever seen. Thanks DON for gathering a team full of international players that played some of the best football ever seen. R.I.P gone never forgotten 🙏🤝👏 love and respect LEEDS UNITED'S No 1 manager and greatest of all Time. Marching on together 🤍💛💙🇮🇨👑✊👊
European style football haha I thought you were just kicking people
@@Sidwhite-yb5cv "European style" translates as offering bribes.
European Style Means Playing To Win By Any Means Necessary.
Not like Spurs who were The Pioneers but played passing game from Scotland.
Man U was a romantic, flair team.
Liverpool The Machine.
@@SpewChoob Whatever the truth about that, If he did I doubt he was the only one. There are many European match results and Internationals that need closer scrutiny due to some strange decisions being given. It is understood that during the 1934 FIFA World Cup Mussolini himself chose which referees would be in charge of Italy's matches.
I wouldn't be surprised if Mussolini refed the games himself?@@KebabMusicLtd
He made the move for family from what I can see. He doesn’t own loyalty anyone
His name will be remembered in the centuries to come, THE LEGEND DON REVIE*
Often the pantomime villain of English football, Revie, whatever you think of him, was light years ahead in terms of match preparation.
Henry Winters’ excellent book “Fifty Years of Hurt: The Story of England Football in 2017” does say Don was tipped off he was getting the sack from England so you can’t really blame him taking the Al-Nasr job.
True. The writing was on the wall. He knew what was coming so jumped before he was pushed.
He should have stayed at Leeds but even there the board had got jealous of his success & how they had become superfluous because of that & the power he held. Always happens, same in politics with Thatcher.
The irony here is that 45 years on, Players are being lured there too - for one reason (the same reason) - MONEY. The difference is that these same players are already multi-millionaires - Revie was no-doubt well off - but this move made him for life in a way that Salah moving in there in a few months (bank on it) will not ! He is alreadly made for life !
Great Leeds manager 💙💛
"The Don" i dont think was cut out for the England job, at Leeds he saw the players as his boys, and in return they would walk through walls for him, the first thing his "boys" all say about him is that, he looked after them, there is a story that th,e first time he got his first England squad together he ended the meeting by saying i have sorted out a bigger match fee with the FA for you, some took this as him being all about the money but really it was him saying he would look after them, international management is alot less hands on, with little day to day involvement the manager may not see the players for months at a time, i assume that for a manager like him was would be the hardest part of the job
It just goes to show how a biased press and news coverage can taint the achievements of truely marvellous man, he reached the top as both a player and manager from humble beginnings, he admits his mistakes its a pity the press and FA never admit theirs.
I could never understand the loving for clough and this lad made out to be the bad guy legend at my team Manchester city built a team around him
Paving the way for Keys and Gray 😂 to succeed in the Middle East.
I can still remember him walking off early at Wembley, never to return.
Not afraid to talk about his mistakes and regrets. Wonder what he would make of Dubai today!
Nice golf swing
Do unto them, before they do unto you.. and you did Don. Club Boards & Associations will sack managers in an instant, so Don sacked the Association.
Sad that his health declined in later years. He made Leeds giants of English football.
For a moment look outside the game. You go through life and as you get older you just want
to let go and relax. Eventually greed steps in, it's a human thing. Age covered his last years.
He did the human thing.
R.I.P Don. One word for Don, LEGEND. Lots of luv from Florida. 🙏🇺🇲🗽🏴🙏
That baby blue flared tracksuit tho
I sincerely think the Leeds management should reappoint Don after the sacking of Allan Clarke. But maybe the salary Don get in the Emirates frightened Manny Cussins.
So Eddie Gray was appointed as the player/manager and the rest was history.
That's a good call but they had just been relegated with AC and I wonder whether Revie by then in his mid 50s would have relished the task at getting them back into division one.
How olde was the Don at this Time ..
When the BBC made real programmes !
And the nonces worked for them ahah
Back when the BBC used the correct term for the body of water just south of Iran: The Persian Gulf!
The don ov elland road at least until the world stops going round
Before my time but his record with England was poor and from what I've heard he chopped and changed the side too often even after some encouraging performances. He got a load of stick for managing the UAE but there wasn't the money in domestic football at the time for either players or managers so I suppose just trying to secure a comfortable retirement. Can't deny what he achieved at Leeds though even if sometimes their tactics were controversial.
He seemed to try to manage England like he had managed Leeds.
A big mistake.
And yet he had been the most successful manager in Britain that way. It’s surely more true to say that he was unsuccessful because he failed to manage the way he did with Leeds; he never settled on a preferred team (or even a captain), and failed to create a club atmosphere as he had in Yorkshire.
@@ronb5714
Celtic supporters might well argue that Jock Stein had been more successful. Bill Nicholson had won more trophies.
I don't know. But how does club management relate to International management? An international team comes from a a number of different clubs, the manager gets them for a few days. How does that sit with Revie's intense management style?
I remember Revie's first match for England. It was against Czechoslovakia in a Euro qualifier. England came out in the bog awful Admiral strip, obviously a link to Revie at Leeds. The words of Land of Hope and Glory were printed in the match programme in a goache attempt at patriotism. Wembley Stadium had aquired a weak logostyle like on the front of a SodaStream package. Come the match, England won three-nil. With the next match, against Portugal, it was back to business as usual, with a nil-nil draw.
He tried it all: Weekend get togethers for 100 plus players, cancellation of the First Division programme before mid-week England matches, dossiers, and so on. Nothing seemed to work.
England had some good options in midfield. Colin Bell was at the peak of his career until he got sythed down by a Man Utd player in a league cup tie. Gerry Francis was really good player. Brooking and Tony Currie also there.
Revie placed far too much importance on Kevin Keegan, who did next to nothing for England during Revie's time. Overall, judging by TV interviews with players, and how the team performed, Revie seemed to have too much baggage from his Leeds days.
Perhaps the FA should been as radical in 1974 as they had been when they appointed Alf Ramsey, and gone for Clough.
Revies might have been the only person who could have eased the likes of Bremner, Giles, and Hunter out of Leeds. Perhaps Revie's appointment was a tragedy for England, and for Leeds. Who can say?
@@thevillaaston7811 Some really good points. Maybe I'd have been better off saying that Revie was unsuccessful because he failed to translate the management he'd had Leeds.
Personally I think the Clough thing is overblown. His CV at this point was inferior to Revie's, and whilst many players swear that he was a genus, he rubbed many others up the wrong way.
@@ronb5714
Any England Manager can only work with the English players that he gets to see. The British kick and rush game seemed to be ill suited to success in international football down the decades. I hope things change.
As a teenager in the 60's I detested Revie , Leeds and everything they stood for.Still do , dirty Leeds on and off the pitch , Bremner and company were a disgrace and stopped Cloughie becoming the greatest ENGLAND manager we ever had.
It's a good life in Dubai.
At end of day you can’t pass that kind of money/lifestyle by if it’s on a plate and I don’t think he mismanaged England
Exactly.
And it’s happening again many premier league players going to earn vast amounts and who can blame them.
@@myalfie Revie was a bit of a trailblazer then with what's happening now.
I never liked the man. I detested the way he walked out on England. But he was right to sue the Daily Mirror, because clearly the press were after him.
... and YES he did go for the money.
But he WITHDREW his writ for libel, after he read the Mirror’s 315 page dossier detailing his bribery and corruption activities.
He made his living in football. Do you work for free?
@roytofilovski9530
No, but in his shoes I wouldn't have walked away from the England job. That was disgraceful
@@keithf_ That could have been handled better it seems.
he was never cut out for the England job
I sucked into the agenda back in the day. But in truth I knew nothing about the man.
Who's the girl at the pool with the black wedge sandals?
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The FA back then was a basket case of big egos and self serving factions. They demanded total loyalty that they themselves never demonstrated or practiced. Despite what he claimed Revie was motivated by money, but it was maybe a result of working for a treacherous organisation like the FA of the time where looking after number one was the inevitable outcome of the culture.
Of course money matters. Don in his playing days earned about £6 a week & the minimum wage could not be increased, Jimmy Hill fought for that to be abolished, even then the best you could hope for was a house & a car. He certainly didn't have a fortune. Good on him that he had at last some pleasure after working every day as a manager.
@@seltaeb3302 can’t argue with that - well said.
he was a great player and manager, a man to be respected, but probably not trusted from what I've read about him!
I think you have it about right.
It was convenient he escaped England when he did, considering he had just gotten a tip off about the matchfixing allegations intensifying. It probably did work in effectively putting out that fire, but even with the big oil money, it still would've hurt his pride to end his career in exile.
He wasn't a nice man, nor was he a clean man, but he had passion for what he did (to a fault), and at least his story was complicated and memorable.
I went in 1989...duty-free shop in the desert, still playing golf on sand. All the expat hardship allowances imaginable and they still couldn't convince me go there full-time. Never been back since.😶🌫
Daily Mirror Ruined Don Reeve Life but Defend Jimmy Savage
I dont Blame Reeve for leaving that horrible toxic place england at that time
WIMBLEDON BROKE THEM 😂😂😂😂
Well, not quite... :)
a non -League Wimbledon team playing so well against a Leeds United team that was a top top team.....
6:55 Strain every nerve is a sad phrase considering he died of mind
The system turning against him suggests to me he had a fall out with high-ranking masons
and Ron Greenwood was a mason
Misunderstood and misrepresented - to serve an agenda for main stream media. The man was a legend !
People should of seen the dirty media agenda against this man just because he went to work in the Middle East. Those days most footballers and managers didn’t get paid much.
Considering the talent available to him in the mid 70's he was an absolute failure as England manager
"Don Revie and his cultured thugs".........best description of Leeds United I've heard
Watching this in the current moment when lots of world football stars have been seduced by the riches on offer from the Saudi Pro League is amazing, makes you think about Henderson and Co taking the Saudi's money. Such a shame that within a few short years of this Don would be stricken with MND and die relatively young.
This is a lie. The F.A. were about to sack Revie so he jumped before he was pushed. Who can blame him. I think Mr. Revie was treated very badly by the English Media, he was portayed like some sort of gangster. I was 8 Yrs old at the time but remember seeing the negative headlines about him in both the front and back of the newspapers.
Very wrong
he was a match fixing con man, nothing else
I wonder what 1st appealed to him about the multi million pound job?
His health and family
The sun
Don Revie, a great breakfast condiment ever since Cloughie had him on toast.
1980 : Clough wins European Cup, Revie joins Al Nasr
2022 : Messi wins World Cup, Ronaldo joins Al NAsr
This club is always on the wrong side of rivalries
Different Al Nasr
I don't blame him for taking this job in Dubai.
C'mom,who wouldn't at the time.
The money over there was far superior, living in luxury and he would have been sacked anyway.
I think he should have waited for the end of England's world cup qualifying campaign before accepting the position.
Never recovered from Wolves stopping their title chance
He did in 1974 when he set a record for unbeaten league games when Leeds won the championship.
full changing room speech in english no translator lol
Don Revie knew he was going to be sacked so Don took it upon himself and did the gutless English FA a favour by resigning. RIP Mr Revie.
He should have waited until the end of 1977 and got his pay off. He would then have walked into another top job. His stock was still high in England.
I've heard it being said that he was a money orientated man.
And footballers aren't, well back in the 60s 70s it was about playing at the highest level & money came second in truth, but Sky changed all that.
Who isn't? In ant type of job, if you get offered a promotion, then you're going to take it.
Wow! When the BBC used to be good.
Looks more like colm meaney than don revie
Well, did Meaney did portray Revie in _The Damned United_ movie...
Hey, who could blame him: it's Dubai!😊
Dubai attracts the absolute worst of the west.
great guy treated badly by the British establishment like almost anyone who does not tow the line but xxxx them anyway
Bit humourless
I get the feeling Revie was a disingenous man. He was a bad choice for the England job. He did a runner to manage UAE when things didn't work out for him as England manager. Failed to qualify for Euro '76 and '78 World Cup and did badly in the last two British Home Championships because of appalling management decisions. The FA suspended Revie from football for ten years for bringing the game into disrepute, which Revie had overturned.
In the Middle East he was just as bad. UAE finished 6th out of 7 in the Gulf Cup of Nations. He was sacked as Al-Nasr manager with the club sitting third. Tried his luck in Egypt, which failed miserably.
wasn’t he a match fixer?
No he was not
Wolves vs Leeds - last game of the season - ?
@@dalek3086
Bury v Leeds 1962
@@dalek3086Derek Dougan who played for wolves testified that didn't happen.
@@dalek3086 Wolves won. So did he fix his team to lose?
The man deserved his reward. Those who criticize the gulf states should realize they are spreading their wealth and enriching the world, unlike the ruling classes in the west.
Lol
Money was his God ..he sold out full stop
He used too many players for England.
The media invented the term Golden generation to cover Beckham, ScolesKampard etc god knows what they would have called the players that were available to Revie, Marsh, Hudson, Worthington, Currie, Bell etc
Shame an oil rich sheik from Dubai hasn't bought the club.
Crook
Revie was the most corrupt manager in British football….end of.
And your incorruptible evidence is?
Big Sam must be a close second.
@@seltaeb3302 Even more “incorruptible” (I think you mean “irrefutable”) evidence. The late Richard Stott, who was senior reporter (later editor) of the Daily Mirror at the time, wrote a book called “Dogs and Lampposts”. In it (pages 171 - 183) it details Revie’s corrupt match fixing activities. It reveals that when Revie found out that Gary Sprake was about to expose him, he suddenly resigned as England manager, and vanished overnight to the UAE. Enough evidence for you????????
Cloughie was up there too.
@@kdloftyThere we’re a few who liked, and took a bung but Cloughie was never accused by anyone of bribery, match fixing and corruption. When Clough was appointed Leeds manager, he famously told the players to chuck their medals in the bin, because they’d only won them by cheating. Leeds must regret sacking Clough, as they probably would have won the European Cup twice.
but he is to blamed for the reason why Chelsea and Man City got takeover by Russian and Sheikh
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Don Revie was a match fixer over a long period of time. When the Daily Mirror published allegations about this, Revie attempted to sue them but did not pursue his libel action. The FA was presented with an extensive dosier about Revie's activities and swept it under the carpet. There is nothing to laud about Revie or his career.
Leeds United players successfully sued for damages. The Wolves player Derek Dougan who played in that match testified in favour of the Leeds players.
It gives me great pleasure to see that 70s hard man football manager Don Revie throws like a girl.
Greedy Revie. Money Money Money. Wasnt even the best manager born in Middlesbrough
Premiere League = mafia league. You ruined footbal.....shame on you .
Cloughie the legend!!
@@CIAUSCOLOMAN What a silly comment.
@@lotuseater7247 I was watching footbal long before you where born.
Believe me.....
@@CIAUSCOLOMAN Hmm, that’s quite an assumption to make about someone you don’t know. In which case, you should know that before the PL, SerieA was a dominant league with its TV rights and mass broadcasting; that's why all the players went there in the late 80's and 90's. It was only later that half the clubs were found out to be actual Mafia types, using gambling and game rigging. Juventus have been caught out even recently, yet again.
Or you could look at Serbia, where players are claiming that they literally have to pay off the mafia there.
Or look at the La Liga; Madrid and Barca; the only two clubs to really ever compete for domestic trophies; again, run by what can only be described as a monopoly with debts that they can never pay.
Or you can look at Fifa, who sold the World Cup to any host willing to pay them for it. There are documentaries showing this.
Or you could go outside of Europe and take a look at Brazil, who have been rigging matches for decades. So, yeah.... silly comment.
mr traitor
I have no respect for this person.