A former Double winning midfield player with Arsenal in 1970-71, ÒStrollerÓ George Graham took his first managerial post at Millwall before returning to his first footballing love at Highbury in 1986 as manager replacing Don Howe. His former amiable charm had been replaced with a dour disciplinarian stance and his silky skills on the ball of his playing days were left far behind as he dragged an underachieving Arsenal side to the League title in 1989 as well as another league title and the European Cup Winners Cup over the next few years with his own brand of dull defensive football. Ò1-0 to the ArsenalÓ wasnÕt a mickey take but more often than not the final score of their matches as Graham stifled and outwitted their opponents into submission.
It was off the field matters, ironically brought to the publicÕs attention by GrahamÕs old enemies at White Hart Lane and the Sugar-Venables court case, that were to be his undoing at Arsenal though in the form of a Norwegian football agent and the sum of £285000. The agent, Rune Hauge, paid George Graham the money as a bung in the transfer of Danish international John Jensen to Arsenal in 1994 and after a Premier League inquiry found Graham guilty of not acting in the clubÕs best interests he was sacked in 1995, claiming until the end that he always intended to give the money back to Arsenal Football Club.
George Graham was banned from football for a year but was forgiven his crimes and went on to manage Leeds United on completing his ban before doing the unthinkable and becoming Tottenham Hotpsur manager in 1998 where he led them to a Worthington Cup victory the following year
I wonder if george is doing the back handers now.
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