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Donald George Revie OBE (10 July 1927 – 26 May 1989) was an English footballer and manager. He is best known for managing Leeds United from 1961 until 1974, winning the Football League First Division twice and the FA Cup once, before being the England national football team manager for three years.
Joined Leeds United AFC in November 1958 for £14,000, becoming the club's player-manager on 16 March 1961, retiring after 76 league appearances in which he scored another eleven goals, taking his total league goal tally to 100, in May 1963. Club honours: FA Cup runners-up 1954-55, winners 1955-56; Individual honours
Nov 24, 2015 · Don Revie is an exception. He won his main battle, and yet history has remembered him differently. It doesn’t help that his opponent was arguably the most iconic figure in English football history, and that their key battle ground, while defining Revie, eventually served only as a precursor for Brian Clough’s redemption at Nottingham Forest .
- Matt Clough
- All Hail The Coming King…
- A Rude Awakening
- This Is Not Leeds United…
- A Bright Start?
- A Hiccup
- Cypriots “Macked”!
- Revie’s British Champions
- Dropping The Ball…
- Czeched-Out
- Downed by The Auld Enemy
Don Revie, at almost 47 years of age, was appointed the new manager of England on 4 July 1974, and brought a two-man team of assistant manager Les Cocker and trainer Bill Taylor with him. His first game as national boss wouldn’t be for almost four months, a European Championship qualifier against Czechoslovakia at Wembley. Revie came into the job o...
Whether Revie believed he could recreate this close-knit family environment at the national team level is unclear, but he was rudely disavowed from any such notions early in his time at Lancaster Gate. One of the most influential men at the Football Association (F.A.) in 1974 was Sir Harold Thompson. Thompson was an Oxford chemistry don, from a ver...
At his unveiling, Don had quipped that “any Englishman that is worth his salt would want to manage the England team”, and whilst there is no doubt that it was a very proud moment in his managerial career, he was about to discover that life would now be very different indeed to the cosy position he had enjoyed at Elland Road for so many years. That ...
Initially, though, things went well. The first game of his tenure, a European Championship qualifier at home to a very decent Czech side, ended in a very encouraging 3-0 victory, thanks to a brace from Manchester City midfield maestro Colin Bell after an opening goal from Southampton’s Mick Channon. However, as the nation celebrated a notable victo...
Three weeks after defeating the Czechs, Revie’s England played out a tame 0-0 draw at home to Portugal, the game ending with the home side getting booed and jeered by disgruntled fans. Revie had recalled Terry Cooper, but he broke down with injury after only 20 minutes, and the side couldn’t find a way to break down a well-drilled Portuguese defenc...
Their next assignment was a home game against minnows Cyprus in the European Championship qualifiers; it would turn out to be a famous evening for Macdonald, who grabbed ALL five goals in the 5-0 thrashing. However, Revie was already making enemies amongst some of his playing staff. Liverpool’s Emlyn Hughes, who had been captain when Revie was appo...
Things got even better when the British Home Championship (an annual tournament played between the traditional ‘home’ nations of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales) came around in May, though quite honestly the results England achieved were not that outstanding. Revie took England to Belfast for their opening game at Windsor Park against...
Afterwards team captain, Arsenal’s World Cup winner Alan Ball, opined that the game was “as good as it gets”. What he couldn’t have known was that it was to be his last ever game in an England shirt. Several months later, Revie arranged a friendly with Switzerland in Basel in preparation for the crunch return qualification game against Czechoslovak...
Don Revie’s first defeat as England boss came in the very game he could least afford it. On 30 October 1975, Revie suffered a Halloween ‘horror show’ in Bratislava, where his side (including two of his former Leeds United men, Allan Clarke and Paul Madeley) encountered a hugely physical Czech side that more than ‘left the boot in’. The Italian refe...
Again, frustratingly, Revie would have to wait until late March 1976 for his next game, against Wales. By now he had been made very aware that the margins between success and failure at international level were infinitesimally thin. In Wrexham for a game to mark the centenary of the founding of the Welsh F.A., Revie’s England side won 2-1. He gave ...
May 26, 2020 · Don Revie: Always Remembered, Never Forgotten. Share this story. Tweet. A look back at the career of the club's greatest manager. Tuesday 26th May marks the 31st anniversary of the passing of our greatest ever manager, Don Revie. He sadly lost his battle against motor neurone disease in 1989 at the age of 61.
Leeds United legend Don Revie holding the FA Cup with Whites captain Billy Bremner after their 1972 triumph over Arsenal. Image via Mirrorpix. A pragmatic tactician and astute man manager, Don Revie built a legacy at Leeds United which still exists to this day. In his youth, Revie led the line for Second Division outfits Leicester City and Hull ...
Nov 18, 2023 · Today, Dr Andrew Dawes recalls Don Revie, the ex-Leicester City player who transformed Leeds United. Revie completely transformed the fortunes of Leeds United between 1961 and 1974. When he became manager, the club was in dire financial trouble and struggling towards the bottom of the old Second Division.
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