1 Clough had to wait until 1991, almost two decades after winning his first League title and more than ten years after back-to-back European Cup success, before being made an OBE.
1 There was also a hint that the frequent trips to the Norbreck Hotel in Blackpool owed something to the fact that the landlady quite fancied Malcolm.
1 The facts support Bell’s point. Between 1967 and 1973, seven different teams topped the Football League. From 1963 to 1974, the FA Cup ended up in 12 different sets of hands.
2 Partly, this is because it was the only time all season that the Match of the Day cameras went to the home of the subsequent champions. Meanwhile, Second Division QPR, thanks largely to their proximity to BBC headquarters, were visited three times. In total, only three City games featured on the show, while Manchester United were aired on eight occasions.
1 Leeds United won the 1967–68 League Cup and European Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, but had to wait until early in the 1968–69 season to play their two-legged European final.
2 The club is now known again as Athletic Bilbao, having reverted to its original name following a period, from 1941 to 1976, when General Franco banned teams from using non-Spanish names.
3 Jimmy Rimmer later benefited in a similar way when Manchester United loaned him to Swansea, where Gregg had become manager. It was a proud day for Gregg when both Corrigan and Rimmer made their England debuts in the same game, playing one half each against Italy during the Bicentennial Tournament in the United States in 1976.
4 This was the suspension from which Best returned by scoring six goals in an 8–2 FA Cup fifth-round victory at Northampton, whose unfortunate goalkeeper was Tony Book’s brother, Kim. United had earned that tie by exacting some revenge over City with a comfortable 3–0 fourth-round win at Old Trafford.
1 QPR would remain unbeaten in their final 12 games following Marsh’s departure, but finished in fourth place, two points out of the promotion places.
1 Earlier that month, four FA Cup ties had been played on a Sunday as a way of combating the ongoing power emergency during the infamous winter that would cost Ted Heath and the Conservative Party their government. The imposition of a three-day week had reduced the supply of electricity and Sundays were able to offer greater guaranteed access to power for football stadia.
1 Four months after Allison’s departure, Taylor was sold to Tottenham for £200,000.
1 The League Cup was enjoying the first of its many new identities following the Football League’s decision to allow the competition to be sponsored.
1 The 1992–93 season was the first of the FA Premier League, leading to the old Division Two becoming the new Division One.
1 Jones himself had related that incident in The Independent in the weeks after he had fallen in front of a train. ‘Of all the comforting voices that have reached out to me since an accident a fortnight ago,’ he said, ‘predictably, it was Malcolm’s that conveyed the most imaginative and practical advice.’
2 Medical research has shown that prolonged excessive alcohol intake can lead to various forms of dementia, including Korsakoff’s syndrome and Wernicke/Korsakoff syndrome, which are specific types of alcohol-related brain injury. Allison’s condition has often been incorrectly referred to as Alzheimer’s disease, although alcohol abuse is not thought to be a cause of that particular illness – in fact, moderate regular intake of wine, in particular, is thought to help protect against it.