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Apparently when Revie was appointed as England manager he arranged for 85 players to attend a get together to discuss his plans to get England to qualify for the 1978 World Cup. One of the 85 he invited was.... John Robertson.

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Needless to say he turned it down. And of course he was the only one of those invited that actually got to play in that World Cup. :LOL:
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I remember this very well. Despite the obvious mistake we were pleased that a Forest player was actually on England’s radar, even if it was a ‘squad’ of 85!
 
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Viv Anderson
Cloughie1975 said:
Several of those players subsequently played for Forest and in Duncan McKenzie’s case had already graced the
City Ground.
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I didn’t actually look at the list above, so looking at it now is the first time I’ve seen it in half a century. I remember McKenzie making a more normally sized England squad when the manager (Revie, I presume) promised every player would get some minutes on the field and he was the only who didn’t.
 
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I'm Red Till Dead said:
Apparently when Revie was appointed as England manager he arranged for 85 players to attend a get together to discuss his plans to get England to qualify for the 1978 World Cup. One of the 85 he invited was.... John Robertson.

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Needless to say he turned it down. And of course he was the only one of those invited that actually got to play in that World Cup. :LOL:
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Despite his mock indignation (Jimmy McCann still winds him up about being "really English" to this day), Robbo always took that acknowledgement from Revie as a huge, huge compliment Nicola.
 
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Cloughie1975 said:
I don’t think Clough rated Richardson though,Trev-and he was part of the cull that inevitably followed his arrival
at Forest.
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There's no doubt that Richo could fairly-effectively man-mark Norman, but he gave me the impression that he thought himself a much better player than he actually was. It took Cloughie little time to see through that.
 
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1973 All Ireland XI v Brazil (Dublin).
Forest’s Miah Dennehy, Martin O’Neill and Liam O’Kane line up in the first all Ireland side since the early 50’s. Arranged as a peace initiative at the height of the troubles, they ended up being forced to play under the name of Shamrock Rovers. Dougan, a Protestant from East Belfast, was never selected for Northern Ireland again.

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Steve B said:
1973 All Ireland XI v Brazil (Dublin).
Forest’s Miah Dennehy, Martin O’Neill and Liam O’Kane line up in the first all Ireland side since the early 50’s. Arranged as a peace initiative at the height of the troubles, they ended up being forced to play under the name of Shamrock Rovers. Dougan, a Protestant from East Belfast, was never selected for Northern Ireland again.

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As he was 35 when he played that game. Isn't it more likely that Northern Ireland were looking to rebuild for the next World Cup rather than as a consequence of playing in this game. There had been 4 World Cup games before that game and he had only played one I believe.
 
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Gosh Miah Dennehy! Get the ball on the half way line, go on a mazy dribble all the way to the by line, no one could get near him, then dribble all the way back again!
 
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Viv Anderson
ado said:
Gosh Miah Dennehy! Get the ball on the half way line, go on a mazy dribble all the way to the by line, no one could get near him, then dribble all the way back again!
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He was a favourite of mine in his short time with Forest. I think I’ve mentioned here before that in a bored moment my brother and I once found ourselves looking for Forest players in the phone book. I was disappointed that the only Dennehy was a J Dennehy until my mum pointed out that Miah was short for Jeremiah. I was too well-brought-up and shy to actually ring the number, though.
 
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I'm Red Till Dead said:
As he was 35 when he played that game. Isn't it more likely that Northern Ireland were looking to rebuild for the next World Cup rather than as a consequence of playing in this game. There had been 4 World Cup games before that game and he had only played one I believe.
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Yes his age was no doubt a factor and he hadn’t scored for 10 games but it’s also common knowledge that the influential IFA president Harry Cavan ‘advised’ then-manager Terry Neill not to select him.
 
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Steve B said:
Yes his age was no doubt a factor and he hadn’t scored for 10 games but it’s also common knowledge that the influential IFA president Harry Cavan ‘advised’ then-manager Terry Neill not to select him.
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At the start of the Ireland v England Home Nations game on May 12th 1973, commentator Brian Moore said that Northern Ireland were in a transitional period so I think the chances are small that Dougan would have played for them again regardless of that July All-Ireland game.
 
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