Quote Originally Posted by upthemaggies View Post
Whilst the FA Cup was the thing to win, maybe it wouldn't have placed as much weight on the scales in their favour if they'd won it 8 years earlier when very few people had a television set. Also 1966/67, their best ever season at the time, coincided with "Match of the Day" being moved to the nationally available BBC1 (it had only had a tiny audience on BBC2), then in the late 1970s with audience figures at levels way above what they are now, they have the most charismatic manager ever to appear in front of a TV camera. So their ascent pretty much dovetails with the golden age of TV. That level of exposure in the 3 channel era probably did as much for them as the trophies did in terms of hoovering up the Nottingham support.
Don't you think our current manager is as charismatic ?