Tommy Doc certainly came out of that defeat in 1976 with good grace,and surprisingly to many given his reputation elsewhere in the game.
Subsequent Manc managers would do well to heed a lesson from him.
Good to see the Plate Hurling Championship duo (from The Clump) c1997 were reunited for the occasion:
Surprised Rupert was unable to join them in person, did they have a live link up by satellite from Gloucestershire ?
No doubt the building contains the best equipt and most lavish treatment room in the history of football. Which is a shame because (some of) our strikers will probably not want to leave that comfort zone.
It is easy to dismiss the story on the back of fact you deem the particular newspaper an unreliable source. However if I remember correctly though it was The Mail on Sunday who lead the story naming the Liebherrs as our potential saviours.*
And FWIW I do not believe the current story but have no evidence either way to back my feeling.
*although they did indicate the wrong Liebherrs at the time.