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Tommy Docherty - manager of many clubs, quips, anecdotes and one-liners

Tommy Docherty, who has died at the age of 92, will be remembered as one of football's great characters.

Known as "The Doc", he managed 12 clubs and the Scotland national team during the most colourful of careers.

He was irrepressible, outspoken and often controversial, accruing a seemingly endless supply of anecdotes, quips and one-liners.

Docherty spent nine years as a player with Preston North End and played for Scotland at the 1958 World Cup in Sweden before a managerial career that took him to Portugal and Australia. However, he is probably best remembered for a five-year spell with Manchester United.