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mimma
September 9, 2022, 2:03am
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Don't know if this has been put on here before, I haven't seen it, but it's an hour long interview with our old manager Brian Laws. He goes into great detail about the Ivano Bonnetti incident, and at the very end how he got rid of him to Tranmere.

There's some interesting stories about Brian Clough in the first half, but if you want his Grimsby days they start about 31 minutes in.

Enjoy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcrZTLkZQBo
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Does he mention the excrement brained Town fans who sang "Lawsy, Lawsy where's your wife" at Scunthorpe?

I was embarrased to be a Town fan that day.
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He speaks well of GTFC and the board of directors about "that" incident
He had a spat with John Aldridge on the pitch, and his payback was to let him have Bonnetti at Tranmere. He rang Lawsy to complain about him upsetting the dressing room!
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Thank you for posting the vid it was very good. Eventually, the truth about the Bonnetti incident came out and was different to the media story of the day.

If you want to listen it's on about the 30 min mark.


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[quote=140776]Thank you for posting the vid it was very good. Eventually, the truth about the Bonnetti incident came out and was different to the media story of the day.

In fairness, BL’s version of the truth came out. There have been so many different versions of that story that unless you were in the dressing room on that day we will never know for sure exactly how and why it happened.

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Thanks for posting the video.
I loved how he reminded me we were indeed punching above our weight. I’d forgotten how good it felt.
Great memories and let’s hope with this newest set up that more great memories are about to be created.
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What was interesting was how the signing of Bonnetti came about. I always wondered how on earth we signed him, turns out his agent was looking for an English club and happened to know Laws so gave him a bell. Laws actually played against him in a European game and remembered him. He thought it was a wind up.
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We’re still yet to get the truth, we’ve had Laws’s version and Ivano’s but in reality, we’ve not had the actual version.

Someone mentioned that game at Scunny, I remember that chant. At the time I didn’t really feel anything, with hindsight it wasn’t one of our best moments but it still isn’t as embarrassing as Halifax or perhaps even Dagenham last season, although that was predominantly that giant man baby in the ill fitting Stone Island…


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Quoted from aldi_01
We’re still yet to get the truth, we’ve had Laws’s version and Ivano’s but in reality, we’ve not had the actual version.



I remember Jamie Forrester used to have a blog and he wrote a post about it once years back. Will try and dig it out.


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