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  • It scarred Stokoe to such an extent that when he recalled Revie's alleged bribe to a journalist over 15 years later he wept uncontrollably.

    Football.co.uk news feed 2010

  • Ferguson's principal quality, the one that distinguishes him from such great postwar managers as his mentor Jock Stein, Matt Busby, Bill Shankly, Don Revie, Bill Nicholson and Arsène Wenger, is the remorseless preservation of enthusiasm, energy and, above all, control.

    Football – Bloody Hell! The Biography of Alex Ferguson by Patrick Barclay – review Richard Williams 2010

  • "Leeds United's rarely used nickname of the Peacocks was shared by a striker in the early Revie era, Alan Peacock," notes Steve Draper, while Matt Braithwaite points out that Graham Potter wore the red-and-white shirt of Stoke in the mid-1990s and David Mills recalls that tousle-haired uber-man John de Wolf could be seen playing at Molineux around the same time.

    Who is the youngest player to retire from international football? 2011

  • A minute's applause was participated in by all as historic rivalries dating back to the feuds of Brian Clough and Don Revie were shelved.

    Nottingham Forest 0-4 Leeds United | Championship match report 2011

  • After only a month in charge of Sparta Rotterdam and two years at Sunderland, in 1978 he accepted the challenge to manage Leeds United, a kind of Sargasso Sea for the managers trying to follow in the giant footsteps of Don Revie, who had built such a formidable team in the 1960s and early 70s.

    Jimmy Adamson obituary 2011

  • In a match which has gone down in history as the Revie final, with the future Leeds United and England manager Don Revie pulling the strings as a deep-lying centre-forward, there was a potentially life-threatening incident near the end, when Manchester City's German goalkeeper, Bert Trautmann, dived at the feet of the onrushing Birmingham forward, Peter Murphy, grasped the ball, then collapsed, but played on after treatment.

    Ken Barnes obituary 2010

  • It was Revie who first put England in royal blue shorts during the sponsorship deal he arranged with Admiral when he was appointed manager in 1974 and they continued in them for nine years.

    No point getting shirty over England's new-look kit 2010

  • Then when he's offered Revie's job, if he says no to it, that's admitting defeat, that's saying, "I can't do as good a job as Revie."

    Brad Balfour: Q&A: British Actor Michael Sheen Fights For The Damned United 2009

  • There's Taylor on the one hand, and there's Revie on the other hand. but Clough is his own good guy.

    Brad Balfour: Q&A: British Actor Michael Sheen Fights For The Damned United 2009

  • MS: I realized a big thing for Clough -- Clough is the villain and the hero, and if Revie was more monstrous that would sort of detract from that.

    Brad Balfour: Q&A: British Actor Michael Sheen Fights For The Damned United 2009

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