With Clough, By Taylor Quotes

“If there are two lads with football ability but unequal intelligence, you can be sure that the boy with the higher IQ will progress further in the game.”
― Peter Thomas Taylor, With Clough, By Taylor

“I have an old-fashioned idea about constructing successful football sides; I believe in strength down the middle – a good goalkeeper, a good centre-half, a good centre-forward. They are the spine of a side.”
― Peter Thomas Taylor, With Clough, By Taylor

“We finished seventh from the bottom after that first season, an almost stratospheric placing for a team over-staffed with deadbeats and renegades whom we dared not leave alone for a moment; I’m not thinking of capers off the field but of their incapacity to absorb instructions on it. The poorer the footballer, the more attention he needs. Basic drills at throw-ins, corners and free kicks must be hammered into their thick heads and, even then, are often forgotten in the stress of a match.”
― Peter Thomas Taylor, With Clough, By Taylor