1975: CLOUGH and McMENEMY vs Football Writers on NORTH EAST FOOTBALL | Classic Sport | BBC Archive

England's two biggest North East clubs - Newcastle United and Sunderland - haven't won a First Division league title between them since 1936, and over the last 20 years haven't even been close to competing for it, rather they've been yo-yoing between the First and Third divisions, winning a cup competition on vanishingly rare occasions.

The North East was historically considered by many to be the "hotbed of football", a tag that persists in some quarters, in spite of a paucity of success on the pitch.

George House is joined by two of English football's most highly-regarded managers, Brian Clough and Lawrie McMenemy - who both hail from the region - and North East football writers John Gibson (Newcastle Evening Chronicle) and Doug Weatherall (Daily Mail), to debate the eternal question; what's wrong with football in the North East?

This clip is from The Northern Myth, originally broadcast on BBC One (North East), Friday 3 October, 1975.





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