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At first, it was just another routine press conference. He talked about the battles he used to have in the lower leagues, when the idea that he might one day play for England felt like a distant dream. He was asked to name the most aggressive opponent he had ever faced and picked out Gary Madine, a player who has mixed prison time with his career as a journeyman striker.
Then, a hand went up at the back of the room and it became clear that one of Harry Maguire’s England team-mates had sneaked in to ask, one Yorkshireman to the other, a question of his own.
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It is just gone 6pm in the away dressing room at Anfield. Brian Clough is about to spring a major surprise not only on Liverpool but also on his own Nottingham Forest squad.
In the process, he will kick-start the career of a wiry young Irishman, just turned 19, who will go on to become one of the most heralded players of his generation, then a straight-talking coach, manager and, more recently, an even more vocal pundit.
On that Tuesday evening August 28, 1990 few people had heard the name of Roy Maurice Keane. But that would soon change.
“The gaffer would regularly get one of the young lads to put a tracksuit on and come on the team bus with us. It was a way to give them a taste of things,” Forest’s right-back Brian Laws that night tells
“There’s an interview with Frank Lampard on Chelsea TV,” he says, “I remember because it was around my birthday (in October) and he’s speaking highly about precisely this, the high line, the pressing; ‘Now we play open football’ et cetera and how great the ideas of the new manager are and all these things.
“My problem at Chelsea was that we were never regular” by which he means consistent “with results. We never found stability or belief in the system. Everything exploded on that run. It was always up and down, up and down, up and down in terms of results and in belief and disbelief in terms of the philosophy, the old Chelsea and the established players, so that buzz started to pick up.
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