Scottish Striker?During a tight match one day, Partick Thistle manager John Lambie was informed that one of his strikers had sustained a concussion and did not know who he was.
"That's great," Lambie replied. "Tell him he's Pele and get him back on!"
[Trivia: "The Brazilians play like they dance," Jorge Valdano (who played for Argentina in 1986) once declared. "The Germans play like they make cars, with lots of technical efficiency and not much left to the imagination; the English run hard all the time, maybe because of the weather; the Spanish are a mosaic of regional styles, which has yet to find a national pattern. And the Italians - they are a paradox. In every other area they export style and flair to the world; but in football they've allowed the ideal of collective organisation to crush individual talent."]
French, Ray (?- ) Scottish soccer manager and coach
[Sources: www; The Economist, May 30th 2002]More Ray French anecdotesRelated Anecdote Keywords:
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