He is a man of distinction with a foot planted firmly in the hall of fame at two football clubs desperate to rise again towards previous dizzy heights. Frank Clark will be sitting within St James Park come the opening day of a new Premier League season on August 6 to witness his two old clubs Newcastle United and Nottingham Forest lock horns in expectation.
Clark is bound for the Moncur Suite amid the upper echelons of SJP as a specially invited guest of his former Magpie skipper Bob Moncur while also doubling as a figurehead with Forest living as he still does on the outskirts of Nottingham. Where his loyalties lie will gnaw at his very fabric because he is proud of his record with both clubs.
And so he should be because Clark won the European Fairs Cup with United - the last major trophy they captured way back in 1969 - and later the European Cup itself at Forest. As grand a double as you are likely to find given that both clubs have fallen spectacularly from those dizzy heights over many, many barren years.
