Sunday, June 12, 2005

Roux Boy

"If there is an equivalent in the English game now, it might be Worksop Town - about the same level, about the same size. And if Worksop win the Premiership-FA Cup double by 2050 and play in the Champions League, you'll have an idea of what Guy Roux has achieved."
Lovely wee article from today's Observer about the redoubtable Guy Roux. For what he has achieved with Auxerre over the last forty odd years is difficult to comprehend from a British perspective. As the article itself indicates, the nearest British equivalent is Cloughie but, for all that, you can't really make a comparison between the two. Derby and Notts Forest are much bigger clubs, though the story of Roux putting his hand on the bonnet of players cars to gauge whether or not they have been out on the booze sounds so much like the sort of thing that Cloughie would have got Peter Taylor to do in their heyday.

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