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Ange Postecoglou is not a clown. We know this . But he is a little bit stupid.

We mean that only in the best possible sense - which is to say, exactly how the late Brian Clough meant it when he famously self-reported as such in 1974, in a televised interview on Yorkshire Television, the night he was sacked by Leeds United after just 44 days in the job.

“That might be aiming for utopia. And that might mean being a little bit stupid,” Clough said.

Don Revie, his highly-successful predecessor at Leeds who had left the club to coach England, was there too, and Clough was telling him that he believed the game could - should - be played a different way to him. (If you’ve seen The Damned United

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