Legendary Football Manager Billy Davies Shares His Journey

[@christiescanlonoffical]

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[@one-0-eight108]

I liked Billy at Forest, I hope he returns to football management soon.

[@NFFCEvans007]

Surely there's no way back in for him now. As much as I rated him 15 years ago

[@marvingreensmith950]

As a forest fan like many here this man brought some great times to our club,we were never struggling with him in the dugout,he should still be in football he just needs a chance again

[@goingbeyondtheillusion]

I met with Guy Moussi a few years ago and he spoke so highly of Billy and told me how the players would run through walls for him.

[@john_michael_white]

You listen to all the Forest player from that time. Moose, Ando, Lewis, Lee Camp, Earnie, Dex, Wes, Kelv, Chrissy Cohen, Radi, Gunter, all of them, rhey have nothing but the highest praise for that man and his ability. In near two decades of failure those two Billy spells were the thing that kept the memory of what good times felt like going.

[@PazLeBon]

@@john_michael_white mostly losers at championship level.. what would they know?

[@john_michael_white]

@@PazLeBon For all the years I was watching them, the idea that they were "mostly losers" is laughably pathetic.

[@PazLeBon]

@@john_michael_white yeah i watched them myself..mostly at championship level, maybe one or two at league one level ., 4 give me, im from a time when we had actual world class players

[@john_michael_white]

@@PazLeBon From my seat in the Trent End yesterday we applauded Tony Woodcock at half time as Lewis McGugan escorted him as guest of honour in front of us. No-one in there has less affection for the latter just because the former achieved greater things, and no-one, not any of our world class stars of the past, hit a better goal than that Lewis free kick against Ipswich. Let's not be disrespectful for those that gave their all for the Garibaldi, bringing great joy at the time, just because others had slightly more to give in their time.

[@goingbeyondtheillusion]

Lovely to hear from Billy. I’m a Forest fan and while he made errors (we all do) he was let down by the chairman. Should have signed Shorey.

[@cosmicsodared]

Loved Billy remember him travelling back to the City ground when we lost to Swansea in the play offs and shaking every fans hand as we got off the coaches in the early hours thanking us for our support. A gentleman

[@Ste-pm3jr]

Billy was the first ray of sunshine at Forest for many a year. That side deserved promotion. I wish him all the best.

[@andrewberridge4323]

Some of the best times at Forest was under Billys leadership i had the pleasure of meeting Billy a couple of times and he is a genuine lovely man and it is great to see him looking so well he has been out of football far too long

[@Cureboy1]

He was great at Forest before he got preoccupied by the media. Why he hasn't managed since is a complete mystery...

[@therebel4332]

Mental in my opinion. Rowett for example has 1 playoff season in 6 attempts,, Davies has never failed to make the playoffs in 5 full seasons. It's bonkers he's been out the game without getting another chance. You'd think a Bristol City or Preston would have given him a crack.

[@grantmillington9104]

Forest legend. The best Forest manager between Clark and Cooper. Dave Bassett is the only other manager in that time who you could realistically compare him to. Much respect to Billy.

[@callumclarke1733]

What a true Gentleman of Scotland he was great for Nottingham forest it's a shame he never got up promoted to Premier League.

[@NFFCEvans007]

Davies and Cooper the two best Forest managers in my living memory. Made us believe again.

[@PeterBarker-f3b]

Just a small thing some people may not know we went tpo swansea for play off we lost but when we returned on supportersbuses they where held up in car park Billy shook hands with hands with every bus supporter that morning about 2 30 in morning what a man.

[@PazLeBon]

shameful performances and hey give cooper stick lol

[@waynehutchoNFFC]

Nice to see billy looking well. Would love to see him back in football management very soon

[@MartinL-i8j]

I liked Billy at Forest, the thing is that it was a match made in heaven in many way, a club that was starved of success and a personality that would embrace the City Ground fans. He wasn’t that far away from getting Forest promoted, I think the problem emerged when he attempted to mould himself into a Brian Clough type figure… however he wasn’t told by Forest do it your way.. he proceeded to a media blackout and alienated a few influential people. Good luck Billy! Always welcome in Nottingham. Top man

I loved Billy at Forest and i never forgave the board for sacking him. I was over the moon when he was re hired by Fawaz but gutted when he sacked him. My only issue with Billy was his bizarre relationship with the media. We as fans never got any news because Billy wouldnt sanction any interviews with certain Journalists . Like BBC Nottingham or Nottingham Post. Id love to see him back as a manger. Ask any former Forest player , they all loved him. He is a fantastic coach and i have no doubt he will succeed wherever he goes , given the chance.

[@garygray198]

In his 2 times at Forest it was great time apart from the very end. Got let down from the board in his first spell with us. Since then Billy been out of management far too long hope he returns soon 🙏🏻

[@GarethMulvenna-tc9cm]

Brilliant manager at Forest, ended up playing too many mind games for his own good but was always brilliant with our supporters club and would love to see him back in the game 👍

[@PazLeBon]

couldn't abide the poison dwarf

[@tenerifereddog3943]

Brilliant for us❤

[@john_michael_white]

Forest fan. I do not say this lightly - Billy is a magnificent, *magnificent* manager, I would take him back tomorrow. The best we've had since Frank Clark, he made taking my seat in the Trent End a consistent pleasure both spells. The media may not like him, but man alive the connection he has with fans and players is unbreakable. I loved Nigel Doughty for what he did for Forest, but it was such a huge mistake to sack him, it set us back years. We didn't recover until Billy himself returned, and the moron Fawaz sacked him after his first bad, injury plagued, run. Insanity, and we only got over that 8 years later when Cooper arrived. Thank you for everything Billy, just thank you. I wish you and yours all the very best. ❤ PS, if you're a Rangers fan, scream and shout at your board until they give Billy the job. I *guarantee* you'll be the top dogs in Scotland again. Guarantee. Not even close.

totally agree. I loved Billy at Forest and i never forgave the board for sacking him. I was over the moon when he was re hired by Fawaz but gutted when he sacked him. My only issue with Billy was his bizaare relationship with the media. We vas fans never got any news because Billy wouldnt sanction any interviews with certain Journalists . Like BBC Nottingham or Nottingham Post.

[@therebel4332]

You'd have him back despite being in the prem 😂. He's a championship expert type.

[@john_michael_white]

@@therebel4332 I'd have him back because he's a winning football matches type. He's a genius at that.

[@chrisprice9021]

Loved Billy at Forest!

[@oliver.s2165]

Yes, he was controversial especially in his second tenure at forest (Media blackout etc.) but some of my best memories being a 30yr old forest fan were witnessing the Billy Davies era. It was US against THE WORLD mentality & it almost, almost worked. Hope he gets back into football again one day.

[@rjkelectrical6086]

Super billy davies! What a guy!! You reeeeeds

[@knight20102]

Billy Davies shouldn't have been out of work for this long. He is a working class Scot and a highly experienced guy who has a lot to offer.

[@falksi3182]

Billy is a total legend. He got screwed over by both Arthur and Fawaz. The press painted a BS picture of him. What a man.

[@jaybull7065]

He was / is an unstable character who under FAWAZ was given the keys to the club and ran it into the ground. Banning sections of the press, bizarre post match conferences before the game, demanding the world's best players and calling out the chairman in the press.....he demonstrated exactly why other chairmen including Doughty had to constantly keep him on a leash. Him not getting a job after Forest is nothing to do with Doughty or even Fawaz.

[@falksi3182]

@@jaybull7065 He only pissed off conformist manignas like yourself tho, so that's just another reason for me to like him.

[@FraserWilliamson-p6o]

@@falksi3182 100%. A manager cannot run a club into the ground and doesn’t get handed the keys to the Mercedes 🤣

[@falksi3182]

@@FraserWilliamson-p6o If a manager is allowed to do that, it's the owners & board members fault for allowing them in the first place.

[@jaybull7065]

​@falksi3182 He was a great manager. But his relations with pretty much every club he worked at ended the same every time. And that's going all the way back to his time at Preston. If a conformist is someone who makes judgments based on the ballance of probability, and evidence......then a conformist I am! Patterns......it happened wherever he went. He wasnt unlucky or targeted.

[@nickhodgett3251]

We begged for him to come back to Forest but he was then responsible for getting rid of some good people as an act of some sort of revenge and refused to talk to the local press, embarrassing.

[@FraserWilliamson-p6o]

Utter bollocks.

[@saelaird]

Fantastic manager. Loved him at Forest.

[@markdavidson9743]

Always wondered what happened to Billy.

[@GaribaldiBard]

I had to check the video speed, I forgot how high pitched Billy was!

[@christiescanlonoffical]

@@GaribaldiBard 🤣😅

[@malcolmstar8036]

Why no discussion of the Fawaz period at Forest. Fawaz was a disaster for the club and had a disastrous effect on Billy’s career and yet no mention of it. I will always be grateful for the good times Billy gave us but some kind of closure on the Fawaz era would have been great.

[@christiescanlonoffical]

@@malcolmstar8036 Hey Malcolm! Thanks for the comment! I was told by Billy's team that I could not talk about this due to legal reasons! Maybe next time mate 😉

[@malcolmstar8036]

@@christiescanlonoffical I kind of half suspected but it is a shame. I wish Billy all the best and hope he gets back into football. Regardless ; I enjoyed the interview a lot. 👍

[@sapienproductions]

​@@christiescanlonoffical His 'legal team' at Forest was an interesting character, to put it mildly! But I'm sure that time was a mess for Billy, such a shame it went all so weird in his second spell.

[@hillfigure4]

Loved his last game in management 🐏 5 v 0 🌳😄

[@jamescunningham1973]

Hard to believe that a biggish team hasnt taken him on,hes brash yes,but he gets results,I like Billy

[@therebel4332]

People look at that Derby exit and are reluctant I guess. The thing is that squad of ours (Derby) was not Premier League standard far from it,, how he got that squad up is a generational miracle,, it was absolutely average stinking even at Champ level,, Craig Fagan, Steve Howard, Arturo Lupoli, Jon Stead and Craig Fagan were our forwards... I mean that's lower half Championship standard back then.

[@chillis44]

I really like Billy and I think he was a passionate forest manager

[@gollick]

The fact he's not got back in after 10 years must mean there's something deeply wrong

[@therebel4332]

Ive never understood why he's never been given another chance in the Championship,, two playoff seasons 1 final with Preston, playoff promotion with us (Derby), 2 playoff seasons with Forest. He's had 6 full seasons at this level and never failed to make the playoffs with three different clubs. When you see some useless managers getting chance after chance (Rooney bring one) and Davies with his record isn't given another is absolutely ridiculous in my opinion.

[@snipedotgenius]

Proper manager this guy is 💯

[@tonyantoniou9271]

a very good manager needy clubs are time wasting when he is out of work

[@Cityboycountyvibes]

Love Billie but need subtitles

[@PazLeBon]

LEGENDARY A hole for sure and his Derby points total might stand forever lololololol Embarassing

[@Forestfire1]

Gutted when he was sacked first time (wrongfully) but Fawaz was right to sack Billy Mk2. The performance at Derby (5-0) by Billy was a disgrace and petulant. I am sure he recognises that he was partly to blame for his own downfall and i think other clubs got wind of his behaviour so he never worked again. I'm sure if a L2 club took a chance on him tit would work though.

[@markherzog9484]

Legendary? Really? George Best, legend, Bobby Moore, legend, But a lower divisions manager?