Timpblue wrote:
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good story about andy
David Moyes's problem with Everton fans, following on from André Villas‑Boas asking for a Tromso supporter to be ejected during Tottenham's recent Europa League tie in Norway, reminds me of a story Andy Morrison used to tell about the way he dealt with one loudmouth spectator.
Morrison was the Manchester City captain during their days in the old Second Division, built like the bouncer at a backstreet nightclub and quite often acting like one. He went on to become assistant manager at Worcester City and one Saturday, in a game at Kettering, there was a bloke behind the dugout spending virtually the entire match yelling abuse in his direction.
Horrible, personal stuff. "My son was in the crowd and I felt like the focus of the whole stadium was on me," Morrison recalls. "The funny thing is, if you've got 30,000 people chanting abuse in your direction, calling you a fat bastard or whatever, you don't hear it and it means nothing. When it's one voice it suddenly becomes highly personal. Call me weak, call me immature, but he got inside my head. I felt physically sick."
The next weekend Morrison put on a hat, pulled a scarf over his face and drove to Redditch, where Kettering were playing, on the pretence he was on a scouting mission. He finally caught up with his man, in the urinals behind the away end, removed his disguise and introduced himself the old-fashioned way, lifting him off the floor and pinning him to the wall (Morrison, to give you a clue, called his autobiography The Good, the Mad and the Ugly). That was the moment he realised the guy he was holding had wet himself. It's not what they advise at the League Managers Association but there are plenty of its members, I would imagine, who will appreciate the story.
love you andy....
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