Paisley 3-2Fergie
Clough 2-2Fergie*
*Clough goes through on time span rules.
Bob Paisley is the only man ever to manage three European Cup winning teams.
That was a different era. The Champions League is a hell of a lot tougher to win than when Paisley was beating the likes of Club Brugge in the final.
Ferguson stands alone as the greatest club manager the English game had ever seen.
But the champions of any one of about 20 countries were genuine contenders to win it in those days. And you had to win your league or win the European Cup to be in it the next year. Look at the teams who actually knocked Liverpool out under Bob Paisley. Dynamo Tblisi, CSKA Sofia, Widzew Lodz. Genuine contenders from Eastern Europe. Those type of teams have vanished off the European scene.
Now there’s only seven or eight teams maximum with massive financial clout who can compete.
Under the old rules Manchester United wouldn’t have even been in the European Cup in 1998/99.
Your clutching at straws Sidney.
The record speaks for itself. There can be no arguments
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