Not a bad player too!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/sport/video-1233670/Leeds-legend-Don-Revie-produces-magical-showboat-City.html

Us Leeds fans owe him everything actually, he gave us a history and achievements to be proud of and which ultimately has made many of us Leeds fans.

RIP Don.

Sir (yes Sir) Don Revie - is and always will the Patriarch of our Club

People forget he invented 'modern British football' with his dossiers and attention to detail. Ok he had his imperfections but who as a human being hasn't ?

Love the man and his memory - always will.

I would also argue the case that due to his colossal legacy this club would have not had such a huge world wide hard core of fans that enabled us to survive the dark days of the majority of the Eighties and the calamities of the since the early 2000s.

To the generation of fans who never knew him as our manager, how can we describe the impact he had on all of us? Even when we weren't top of the league, everyone knew we were the team to beat. We had battled our way up from the second division and ground out results year after year. The core of the team was there from the mid-sixties, but the players just got better with each season. There weren't many changes, but the ones who came in made a huge impact, notably Clarke and Jones. We broke into the elite of Man Utd, Man City, Everton and Liverpool, and showed them how to play the game. Even now, 50 years later, the names roll off the tongue. Sprake, Reaney, Cooper, Bremner, Charlton, Hunter, Lorimer, Clarke, Jones, Giles, Gray, Madeley...one international player after another. This was the era of British and Irish footballers, of hard men and fierce rivalries, and we were the best. We were imperious. I remember marching into school after we beat the Man U of Best, Law, and Charlton 5-1 and I was 10 feet tall. How many of us became Leeds for life in that era? I think the Don set the benchmark for what this club could be, and kept us there for a decade by the sheer force of his personality. The faith he had in his players, and the love they had for him is, I think, unrivalled in the modern game.

Agree with all the above.He was a genius.RIP Don .

Excellent article by the author and following posts, 5 stars from me...watching and supporting the evolution of a team/club from the depths of the 2nd division to a champion team through a span of years was the most exciting time of my sporting life. Unfortunately I'm old enough to have seen Revie playing at Elland Road for Leeds...the image I have is a player too slow, too heavy with a basin cut hairstyle, lol...of course he was at the end of his playing career.
There was contradictions in his management and coaching career...far ahead of his time in many ways, from telling his players to keep the ball near the corner flag near the end of a game, to waste time...to crowd the goalkeeper from corners, all tactics criticised by opposing teams, fans and media...what a difference now, if players didn't employ those tactics now the coaching staff would probably be sacked for negligence! He also started proper warmup routines before the start of a game before any other team did that...I remember big Jack Charlton looking rather embarrassed doing balletic exercises, he looked rather ungainly...but routine pre game routines quickly became the normal for all teams.
The presentation of the Leeds team from stocking tabs to pre game exercise routines was most impressive, way ahead of its time.
Though personally I could have done without all that superstition stuff and surprised Revie gave it so much time, superfluous to events, getting in the way of more
Important matters. Revie himself wasn't a bad player but doubt he would have got into the team he managed and coached...I wouldn't put him ahead of Giles or Collins in the schemer role.

He was way ahead of his time, the team he developed would be priceless today.
The team we had were tough but talented and the trophies won did not do justice to quality of football played.
R.I.P Don.

Aye Don, spot on.

Spot on, when football was football and a level playing field.
A genius that didn’t buy success.

Great personal memories for me, magical.

Absolutely amazing manager, he was in charge when I started supporting Leeds back in 1972/73. A man ahead of his time, the best manager we ever had. RIP KING Don.

Great manager

Built probably one of the greatest side ever but his flaws cost us at least five more trophies

We were an amazing team and should have won many more trophies. However football was so much different then, so much competition.
Bring back those days please.
Football and it’s megs rich players and owners have destroyed football.

comment by LIW Radchancer (U8453)
posted 27 minutes ago
Great manager

Built probably one of the greatest side ever but his flaws cost us at least five more trophies
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You maybe have a point, hard to prove one way or the other, I can only give an opinion on 3 high profile games: 75 European Cup, Bayern Munich...Jimmy Armfield was manager...very controversial decisions by the officials, won't go into detail but World Soccer Magazine were always on the case trying to find out if the officials were corrupt, all sorts of allegations which were never proved...the magazine gave up investigating, something about a bloody horse head found in a bed! If Revie had been in charge would he have picked Eddie Gray rather than Terry Yorath and would it have made a difference?The European Cup Winners Cup final vAC Milan was similar with allegations of corrupt refereeing...again not a satisfactory outcome for Leeds. I would like to point that it wasn't just sour grapes of losing, we played those teams off the park...English teams playing in European competitions in the 60s and early 70s complained bitterly of refereeing and officials including Brian Clough at Derby.
The only game that was imo a legitimate result under Revie was Celtic, we lost over 2 legs, the away leg just a few days after FA Cup final, Celtic much faster and fresher than leggy and slower Leeds, don't think you could blame Revie for that, do agree with you he did have flaws...like I wrote earlier he did have contradictions in his character.

Not going to go into detail but bad refereeing and Alan Hardaker (The FA) cost us trophies in 1967, 70, 71, 72 and 73. Certainly should have won the league in 69, 70, 71 and 72.

By the way in 70 we played Celtic on the Wednesday and West Ham on the Thursday,