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BREAKING: FORMER MAN UNITED, CHELSEA AND SCOTLAND BOSS TOMMY DOCHERTY DIES AGED 92

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Former Manchester United, Chelsea, Aston Villa   and Scotland manager Tommy Docherty has passed away after a long illness at the age of 92.

Docherty began his playing career at Celtic but made his name playing more than 300 league games for Preston North End as a right-half in the 1950s. Finishing his career at Arsenal  and then Chelsea, he also represented Scotland 25 times and was part of the squad that competed in the 1958 World Cup in Sweden.

But it was as a manager that the popular Scot will be most widely remembered. Docherty managed more than a dozen clubs including Chelsea, Villa, Porto, Derby and QPR. 

His four-and-a-half years at United saw him take the club back in to the old First Division and to successive FA Cup Finals in 1976 and 1977.

The first was lost 1-0 to Southampton but the second saw United deny Liverpool a treble with a famous 2-1 victory over their rivals at Wembley.

Docherty died at home in the north-west on December 31.

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A family spokesperson said: ‘Tommy passed away peacefully surrounded by his family at home.

‘He was a much-loved husband, father and papa and will be terribly missed. We ask that our privacy be respected at this time. There will no further comment.’ 

Kunle Solaja is the author of landmark books on sports and journalism as well as being a multiple award-winning journalist and editor of long standing. He is easily Nigeria’s foremost soccer diarist and Africa's most capped FIFA World Cup journalist, having attended all FIFA World Cup finals from Italia ’90 to Qatar 2022. He was honoured at the Qatar 2022 World Cup by FIFA and AIPS.

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