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BILLY DAVIS BOOK

BILLY DAVIS BOOK

He gave his last interview regarding football in September 2017. Paranoia isn't the word.🤣

Edit; Can't post the full interview but it's copy and pasted onto a Forest forum around that time:

Billy Davies interview

Not that I want to start another Billy Davies discussion because it's as boring as anything but Christ this interview. Turns out he is suing the club, blaming a PR company for his demise and says Hearts, St Mirren are 'beaneath him' and he deserves to be at the top. I wonder if the "top...
www.forestforum.co.uk

Claims Preston wanted him back at one stage. Perhaps 2007 as think he left Derby at around the same time SImpson was finally sacked.
 
SoccerHQ said:
He gave his last interview regarding football in September 2017. Paranoia isn't the word.🤣

Edit; Can't post the full interview but it's copy and pasted onto a Forest forum around that time:

Billy Davies interview

Not that I want to start another Billy Davies discussion because it's as boring as anything but Christ this interview. Turns out he is suing the club, blaming a PR company for his demise and says Hearts, St Mirren are 'beaneath him' and he deserves to be at the top. I wonder if the "top...
www.forestforum.co.uk

Claims Preston wanted him back at one stage. Perhaps 2007 as think he left Derby at around the same time SImpson was finally sacked.
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It was in December 2011 when Phil Brown was sacked.
 
Karcist said:
He got the funds he wanted so much at other clubs , and failed. Last I heard his career at top level is over, as much due to his `poison dwarf` nature as his lack of football nous at the highest level.

Who`d buy any book of his now? Would there be much of a market? Doubt it. He`s no longer a football `celeb`.
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Every full season in charge of a Championship side and finished in the play offs is classed as failure? What a shit job Neil is doing then!
 
norky84 said:
Every full season in charge of a Championship side and finished in the play offs is classed as failure? What a shit job Neil is doing then!
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It`s a failure in two pertinent ways.
One, to Billy himself. He will have wanted his own future to be successful at Prem or International level. Hell, he was even gonna write a book... 🙂

Two...he did not become a household name, is doing nowt now, is below the radar ,and is simply not likely to make a fortune from sales. Unless he dishes some VERY serious dirt on clubs like Preston North End. Something I don`t particularly want.

Neil isn`t writing a book.
 
When BD decided to sit in the dug out when the flood light failed it all became about him.

The Job Done comment prior to the game had already got Leeds and Blackwell into the mood set of win at all costs.

We should have won promotion against West Ham, we were really united as a club and fanbase but sadly in the ene it all became all about Billy Davies.

I didnt have much time for him as a bloke but he had found the formula to come as close as we ever have to get out of this league and respected that but he acted like tosser when he left, insisted on a helicopter etc.

As a manager he did a great job up until that second leg against Leeds when it was no longer about Preston North End.

We will be waiting for his book as he has various outstanding legal proceeding ongoing with different clubs.

I am not sure who would actually want to read it anyway.
 
I can confirm that Billy is not doing any book interviews at the moment. But he was very nice about it. 🙂 And as others have said, he might be a fiery character, but he’s still a bloody good manager. 👍 Don’t forget just how good we were under him. It’s bizarre that no-one has taken a punt on him for the past six years. Crazy, really.
 
Staffordwhite said:
I can confirm that Billy is not doing any book interviews at the moment. But he was very nice about it. 🙂 And as others have said, he might be a fiery character, but he’s still a bloody good manager. 👍 Don’t forget just how good we were under him. It’s bizarre that no-one has taken a punt on him for the past six years. Crazy, really.
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Absolutely crazy, and as said previously strange?
 
JK said:
When BD decided to sit in the dug out when the flood light failed it all became about him.

The Job Done comment prior to the game had already got Leeds and Blackwell into the mood set of win at all costs.

We should have won promotion against West Ham, we were really united as a club and fanbase but sadly in the ene it all became all about Billy Davies.

I didnt have much time for him as a bloke but he had found the formula to come as close as we ever have to get out of this league and respected that but he acted like tosser when he left, insisted on a helicopter etc.

As a manager he did a great job up until that second leg against Leeds when it was no longer about Preston North End.

We will be waiting for his book as he has various outstanding legal proceeding ongoing with different clubs.

I am not sure who would actually want to read it anyway.
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He did something similar at Forest. Apparently threw a match at B***kp**l because he wanted to face them in the play offs and according to Gary Taylor Fletcher said at the end of the game to their team he was looking forward to playing them again! Then after the first leg he said it was "job done."

Surprised he's still fondly remembered on here considering that Forest side was pretty decent and made a mess of the second leg which led to the apocalypyse promotion in 2010.

www.nottinghampost.com

Taylor-Fletcher on the day Billy Davies caused uproar

"I remember some of his players were looking at him wondering what he was doing. Some of his own players!"
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SoccerHQ said:
Surprised he's still fondly remembered on here considering that Forest side was pretty decent and made a mess of the second leg which led to the apocalypyse promotion in 2010.
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I’m not sure that everyone wants him for their best mate, I’m sure most won’t remember him fondly for the way he left the club, but I feel that a lot of the people, including myself, will remember the feeling of fearing no team, the confidence that we would win against anyone, and even at some times the quality of footballl played was without doubt the best seen for many a year.

I think that the same applies to McGeady, it was said that he caused unrest in the dressing room, the crap that he showed when he returned with Sunderland, but if you disregarded any of that you would probably have paid the entrance fee just to watch him alone.
 
Best manager we had for a long time IMO and his team played some of the best football since back to the time of the Season we got to the Cup Final

He only left because the 'Board' wouldn’t back his ambition
Which was only what many of us were calling for at the time?
It was strange to me that the way some people liked him before he went, but hated him after for only spelling out the Truth
 
Tark said:
I have no doubt that the most fixed game I've ever seen was the play-off semi against against Leeds.
The bad refereeing and floodlight failure could only, I believe, have been arranged by some illegal wealthy betting magnate in Dubai, or similar, of which I have no proof, but our floodlights have never failed before or since. Umm.
Anyway, when the poison dwarf ran away from Preston, he said many times it would all come out in his book.
So a decade or more later, what has become of BD's book?
I think we should be told.
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Trying to get him on the podcast. It seems he doesn't like to answer his phone.
 
Obviously Billy can at times come across as an arse and I can see why for many he is quite difficult to like, but who can really blame him for leaving.

He’s no different to any of our best players or good managers we’ve had in our recent history. They all eventually have to leave to have a better chance at promotion and working in the Premier League.

The last 15 years may have been totally different if he had been backed with the same amount of cash that Alan Irvine was afforded to keep us in the Championship, a mere 18 months after BD left. As ever the purse strings only opened when relegation was on the cards. Whenever we are in a position of strength, we almost always fail to strengthen. I think that is what BD had had enough of.
 
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