Billy Davies

And I think just to go back to Glasner's post-match.

I think this, this reminds me of Billy Davies, that he's, he's kind of taking one for the team to protect the players.

Like, Glasner knows that we should've won that game, and it's not because of him that we didn't.

It's just one of those one-off games where if one, one of those chances at 1-nil goes in, we're not having the same conversation that we are now.

Favourite era watching North End? Oh,

I'm probably going to go as far back as I think Craig Brown and then a bit into the Billy Davies era.

Just the players and I think the nostalgia.

And that's when I went on the most home and away.

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So we took a 2-1 lead there, and we were, we were, we enjoyed it and that, and I could see Billy, you know, Billy Davies was...

He's an angry man, isn't he? And he was giving it us in t- on the way down the tunnel in the first leg, saying, "We'll get you back to the City Ground, and we'll batter yous there and that." And we were like, "Yeah, yeah, no problem."

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But people say you're not a manager until you've been sacked, and you learn from that and you grow and you, how do you, you get better.

And then I, um, I was out of work and, and, and Davey had obviously come out at West Ham at that time as well, and I had a few chats with him over that time and, and then one day, obviously I seen that he was going into Everton and then, you know, got a call saying that he would like me to go in with him and I went in as set play coach, did a bit of set plays.

But it was just the, the experience of gaining from him and Billy and Alan Irvine, Billy McKinley.

Leighton Baines obviously was a, he was a, a legend of the club there.

from the prep.

They must be yearning for Billy Davies to return.

I mean, what they'd give to finish 11th.

So...