Sir Bill Nicholson

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Nutter-Naylor said:
www.football.london

Spurs set to discuss plans for Bill Nicholson statue and White Hart Lane gates

EXCLUSIVE: The club are set to discuss proposals for a statue of their legendary double-winning manager and the iconic gates at a meeting in July
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Great to see. The stadium is bright and sparkly and for the future. But it is important to remember our history and those who came before.

I'd like to see something for the General as well. Maybe not a statue but something.
 
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"It is better to fail aiming high than to succeed aiming low. And we of Spurs have set our sights very high, so high in fact that even failure will have in it an echo of glory."


"There's no use being satisfied when things are done wrongly. I want perfection."


"It's magnificent to be in Europe, and this club - a club like Tottenham Hotspur - if we're not in Europe.... we're nothing. we're nothing."


"It's no use just winning, we've got to win well."


"It's been my life, Tottenham Hotspur,and I love the club."


"...intelligence doesn't make you a good footballer. Oxford and Cambridge would have the best sides if that were true. It's a football brain that matters and that doesn't usually go with an academic brain. In fact I prefer it when it doesn't. I prefer players not to be too good or clever at other things. It means they concentrate on football."


"We must always consider our supporters, for without them there would be no professional football. It would be better to have more fans watching football the way they like it played, rather than have a few fans watching football the waywe would like it played."


"The public can't be kidded. They know what they want to see, what is good and what is bad and what is just average. At least I believe they do."


"If you don't have to drag yourself off the field exhausted after 90 minutes, you can't claim to have done your best."


"Any player coming to Spurs whether he's a big signing or just a ground staff boy must be dedicated to the game and to the club. He must be prepared to work at his game. He must never be satisfied with his last performance, and he must hate losing."


"Naturally I'm a Tottenham man. So far as football is concerned, it means almost everything, doesn't it really? Because I can reflect back to being a player with, and manager of some of the finest players that have ever been in the game."


"When it is played at its best football remains the greatest game of all. And Tottenham, so close to my heart, is still to me the greatest club."


"I always said that it was an honour to serve Tottenham Hotspur and I feel the same every time I walk back into the stadium."


"Spurs have got to be the best in the land, not the second best."


"If you don't win anything, you have had a bad season."

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Sean said:
About time, remember this being discussed when they was planning the stadium, would be good if they did something for Arthur Rowe as well
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In an ideal world there would be a "walk of history" or something like that either just inside or outside of the stadium where we can showcase and honour former players, coaches and our former glories. It would probably have to be inside to prevent vandalism but something like that would be nice.
 
ShutUpPatrik said:
Great to see. The stadium is bright and sparkly and for the future. But it is important to remember our history and those who came before.

I'd like to see something for the General as well. Maybe not a statue but something.
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Agreed,but history starts at the beginning.
And I think it's a disgrace we haven't got a statue (which was pretty much promised) of the founders. I am all for Bill Nick getting a statue,but others deserve it as well
 
Is it possible to keep a Bill Nicholson thread clear of fighting over Scholar?

Back on topic, it’s ridiculous to think about it that we don’t have a statue of him already. Surely that should come before a karting track.
 
Have voted for Sir Bill Nic too....
But we all know it's gonna be Fergie or Shankley... especially with the number of Liverpool/Man Utd fans voting!
 
Sean said:
Think it would be outside the south stand somewhere maybe, where we have the open area
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That would be nice as long as we could prevent it from being vandalised.

I know that Atletico Madrid have a "walk of fame" outside their stadium. Where every player that has played in the first team has a plague in the ground or something like that.

The city where I live have put up their own thing which looks kind of like big advertising boards that you see outside of restaurants, but the pictures are made out of perforated metal which looks really cool. Something like that.
 
Richard Arlison said:
Who owned the club when Bill Nich was the boss?

oh that’s right, nobody talks about that because owners and chairmen aren’t supposed to be the centre of fucking attention all the time.
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There is little information about the owners of the club prior to Irving Scholar. He was the first "visionary" chairman and he involved himself in team affairs a lot more than his predecessors which many believe led to the resignation of Keith Burkinshaw. He also got a lot more attention because of his "diversification" of the club's business interests which, unlike with Levy/ENIC, was unprofitable and got the club in a lot of trouble.

The tradeoff is that we signed top tier players like Waddle and Gascoigne, which wouldn't have happened under a more conservative ownership, and we got to be trailblazers in the commercial branding arena which would have worked out a lot better for us if Sugar hadn't sacked the marketing guru that made it happen and let him to go to Manchester United. Scholar paid the price for being a pioneer and having ideas ahead of his time.

The chairmen of yesteryear were little more than figureheads as far as the average fan was concerned. An interview with one of them would have been about as interesting as an interview with the local vicar. For better or worse, Scholar changed all that.
 
Kid Chameleon said:
Scholar paid the price for being a pioneer and having ideas ahead of his time.
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Bull.

Scolar paid the price FOR BEING COMPLETELY INCOMPETENT IN EVERY NON-FOOTBALL RELATED REVENUE STREAM WHICH HE INVOLVED THE CLUB IN.

It's easy having ideas - diversification? Big deal. Just make it work, you twat. Instead THE FOOTBALL WAS SUBSIDISING EVERY OTHER PART OF THE CLUB WHICH WAS THE EXACT OPPOSITE OF WHAT THE PLAN WAS. First Direct? Good idea, not unique. But they made it work through excellent implementation.

Scolar was an absolute cunt, a moron who lucked out in Property and thought he was the dogs nuts across every business you could think of. HE COULDN'T EVEN DO THE EAST STAND TO BUDGET AND HAD TO SELL WADDLE TO PAY FOR IT!!!

If anyone ripped his head off and shat down his throat I'd buy him a pint and dance on the cunt's grave. If I ever bump into someone like saying how great he was I'd fucking deck them.

Moron
 
White Van Jan said:
Bull.

Scolar paid the price FOR BEING COMPLETELY INCOMPETENT IN EVERY NON-FOOTBALL RELATED REVENUE STREAM WHICH HE INVOLVED THE CLUB IN.

It's easy having ideas - diversification? Big deal. Just make it work, you twat. Instead THE FOOTBALL WAS SUBSIDISING EVERY OTHER PART OF THE CLUB WHICH WAS THE EXACT OPPOSITE OF WHAT THE PLAN WAS. First Direct? Good idea, not unique. But they made it work through excellent implementation.

Scolar was an absolute cunt, a moron who lucked out in Property and thought he was the dogs nuts across every business you could think of. HE COULDN'T EVEN DO THE EAST STAND TO BUDGET AND HAD TO SELL WADDLE TO PAY FOR IT!!!

If anyone ripped his head off and shat down his throat I'd buy him a pint and dance on the cunt's grave. If I ever bump into someone like saying how great he was I'd fucking deck them.

Moron
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Didn’t scholar rock up at Forest a few years later and nearly bankrupt them as well?
 
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