Leicester will play Leeds on Friday afternoon at King Power Stadium, as they face the team that had Don Revie as their manager during a glorious period for the club, in some way also great decades for Leicester at that very same time. Don Revie missed the 1949 FA Cup final being probably the most pivotal player in the Leicester City team. A nasal haemorrhage incident the day before the final as Don Revie was hospitalized.
But this time we will not dwell with his playing career at Leicester, but his time at Leeds and what could have been if he had stayed on at Elland Road and not taken on the challenge of becoming England manager, which in many ways probably was the absolute wrong decision to make. With a clever Don Revie analysis he would not have taken the job knowing the best lot of players at time were flamboyant and far from what he lessoned at Leeds.
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