David Craig Mackay was a Scottish football player and manager. Mackay was best known for a highly successful playing career with Heart of Midlothian, the double-winning Tottenham Hotspur side of 1961
Mackay in 2006
Tottenham Hotspur in 1960 with Danny Blanchflower (captain) and both goalkeepers, Bill Brown and John Hollowbread, in the team with Cecil Poynton as trainer and Bill Nicholson as manager. Dave Mackay is standing far right.
Dave Mackay Memorial, Derby County FC, unveiled in 2015
George Best (pictured) praised Mackay as both the hardest and bravest opponent he ever faced
Brian Howard Clough was an English football player and manager, primarily known for his successes as a manager with Derby County and Nottingham Forest. He won the European Cup twice with Nottingham Fo
Dave Mackay
…that they shared because of the draw. None of these trophies were won in the two seasons affected by Mackay's lengthy injury due to his leg break. Brian Clough claimed in 2003 that Mackay was Tottenham Hotspur's greatest ever player. Aged 33, at the start of the 1968–69 season he transferred to Derby County…
Clough as Nottingham Forest manager in 1980
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Clough (seated, second from right) with the England national football team at Wembley Stadium, 28 October 1959.
Brian Clough and Peter Taylor Statue at Pride Park