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The Doog: The Incredible Story of Derek Dougan - Football s Most Controversial Figure

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He just felt to be a full-time professional it just wasn't up to his standards the way he viewed the way the club was run. In his own opinion there were men in charge who shouldn't have been and the club went through two managers during his two and a half year spell and knew the club were soon going to find themselves facing relegation if these people were in charge.

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in 1–0 win against Czechoslovakia during the 1958 FIFA World Cup, his country's first-ever World Cup finals match. We need some people who can actually talk lucidly about football,’ had been the guiding principle of Bromley, who changed his mind about using his panellists individually and opted instead to throw them all on screen at once. ‘Crerand and Allison were the baddies,’ he added, ‘and the charming Dougan with the lovely McNab were the goodies. They became folk heroes in four weeks.’So I'm not convinced that his stories about the training not being up to scratch were true. Having said that, the average fitness of a Pro football player in those days, was a mile behind what it is now - but that was at every club, not just Rovers. In just over eight seasons at the Molineux, Dougan made 320 first team appearances for Wolves netting over 120 goals. Brendon Batson, a former PFA deputy chief executive, said: "He was a great champion of players' rights and conditions and he was integral part of the terms players enjoy now.

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Usually I've plenty of sympathy for players during those days (pre-1961 maximum wage players who were treated closer to chattel than free workers) but to hand in a transfer request on the morning of the club's most important game for over three decades...it was just wrong. Dougan himself expressed some regret I believe in later years. All he had to do was wait one day...I don't see how that act can be defended. In the end he stayed for an extra year at Rovers anyway and didn't move on until 1961. If I remember correctly I believe Dougan also challenged all things in football...he was a fighter...I remember reading about him challenging doctors and physicians. For this he got a reputation as a difficult player. Ultimately though he was the one proved right as he suffered many ailments after retiring. Rather a pyrrhic victory that one.

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Dougan, who had helped organise the game, never played for Northern Ireland again and he later said that he was in favour of an All-Ireland team.

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The cup final itself was just one massive disaster...Dougan played a part in it but it certainly wasn't all down to him. Whelan breaking his leg didn't help. Apologies for getting a tad defensive here, but I'm only going on what my opinions are and also on what I believe to be true in my own mind. At the end of the day this was here to dedicate this thread to a former Rover and hopefully this is what has been done. Sadly, it all went sour, the fans turned on him and he quit the club and regular hands-on involvement in football. His place on the original football panel along with Malcolm Allison, Pat Crerand and Bob McNab, put together by ITV for its coverage of the 1970 Mexico World Cup, gave him a high profile beyond the traditional boundaries of the game.

Dougan succeeded Terry Neill – his future Northern Ireland manager – as chairman of the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) in 1970. [91] He advocated the belief that players should control their own destiny and used his position as Chairman of the PFA to further players' rights. [92] He oversaw the inaugural PFA awards in 1973–74, which included the PFA Players' Player of the Year, PFA Young Player of the Year, PFA Team of the Year, and PFA Merit Award. [93] He pushed for freedom of contract for players, and in 1978 accepted a compromise deal that allowed players to switch clubs at the end of their contracts, providing that the player's new club and old club could agree on a transfer fee, with a tribunal agreeing on a fee in cases where clubs could not agree. [94] He was appointed player-manager at Southern League Premier Division side Kettering Town in 1975, a position he retained for two years. Whilst at the club he negotiated the first shirt sponsorship deal in English football. He chaired the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) from 1970 to 1978, and helped to further players' rights and set up the first PFA player awards in 1974. Also throughout the 1970s he became a football pundit and writer, and became particularly well known for his part in ITV's coverage of the 1970 and 1974 FIFA World Cup. After fronting a consortium that took Wolverhampton Wanderers out of liquidation, he served the club as chairman from August 1982 to January 1985. He stood as an independent politician in the Belfast East constituency in 1997, and later became involved in the UK Independence Party. O Righallaigh, Ciaran (15 February 2004). "Brazil's return to Dublin's flair city conjures up memories". Scotland on Sunday. Archived from the original on 2 June 2004 . Retrieved 29 November 2007. In the second half the home team netted again but on this occasion the referee was brave enough to disallow it. This group of articulate, stylishly dressed men were enthralling viewers who followed football every day of their lives and making the sport easily accessible to those whose interest barely extended to the FA Cup final, the one club game televised live each season. Fan letters and autograph hunters became an even bigger part of their lives. McNab even recalls the group eating in a restaurant one night and being joined by Michael Caine who wanted to ‘have a drink with the lads’.

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