Just about everything I do my sessions my ideas on discipline and organisation come from George

“Just about everything I do, my sessions, my ideas on discipline and organisation, come from George.”Indeed, he still has the workbooks in which he recorded Graham’s drills more than 20 years ago. “We were not the most talented team of individuals but we hardly ever lost a game such was his attention to detail. He knew exactly what he wanted and if you didn’t get it he would take you out in the afternoon and go over it again and again. If you didn’t do what he said, you didn’t play.”Graham also began his management career in the lower reaches, taking Millwall out of the old Third Division [now League One] before moving to Arsenal.

The increase in foreign coaches and the reluctance of Premiership directors to look down the leagues means it is harder to make that step up now. Allen, though, is not discouraged.”I went to see Chelsea in the Champions’ League I got there an hour early to watch them warm up. When I saw Jose Mourinho come out I visualised the future, hoping one day it would be me.”It is a big ambition for a rookie manager in League One, but after an hour in Allen’s company you begin to believe he can make it. The question, as he puts it himself, is whether “a plc, based in an office in London, will say: ‘Let’s take the Mad Dog on.’” One day, it may not be such a crazy notion.. Beleaguered manager Dave Jones last night admitted he is concerned for his future as his desperate Wolves side found even a penalty and a man to spare not enough to avoid a third consecutive defeat.

Wolves, under pressure to win an immediate return to the Premiership after being relegated last term, have only 11 points from a possible 36 and it may be that their next two games, at home to Derby County and in-form Queens Park Rangers, will have to be won if Jones is not to be replaced.”I know the chairman will feel under pressure and while I’m not frightened I am concerned,” Jones said “I just hope that people keep their nerve. If it happens, it happens, but all I can do is give my best.”Forest, who started two points worse off than their opponents from a game more, deserved their victory, and not only for successfully coping with 10 men for 35 minutes after goalscorer Andy Reid was sent off. While they still had a full complement, they were comfortably the dominant force.Indeed, to suggest Forest might have been four goals to the good even before Reid’s 42nd-minute strike would be no exaggeration. David Johnson had seen three opportunities come to nothing while only a fine save by the goalkeeper Michael Oakes kept out a rocket from Alan Rogers. When the breakthrough came it produced more evidence of the ability that makes Reid Forest’s most valuable asset, the Republic of Ireland winger curling a wonderful high, left-foot shot inside Oakes’s near post from 20 yards.How different the evening might have gone for Jones, though, had Kenny Miller not fluffed a gilt-edged chance after only nine minutes.

Or how much better had Shaun Newton put away the penalty Wolves were awarded in the 56th minute when Reid, having miscontrolled the ball, brought down Kevin Cooper. Instead, Paul Gerrard leapt to his right to make a fine save, extending Wolves’ miserable record in spot kicks to eight misses from their last 11.Nottingham Forest (4-4-2): Gerrard; Louis-Jean, Hjelde, Morgan, Rogers; Impey, Evans, Jess (Dawson, 86), Reid; Johnson (Robertson 77), King. Substitutes not used: Commons, Roche (gk), Bopp.Wolverhampton Wanderers (4-4-2): Oakes; Lowe (Ki-Hyeon, 64), Bischoff, Lescott, Kennedy; Cooper, Andrews, Ince (Cameron, h-t), Newton; Miller, Cort. Substitutes not used: Naylor, Olofinjana, Jones (gk).Referee: P Robinson (Hull).. The Real Madrid coach Mariano Garcia Remon said yesterday that Michael Owen must bide his time before gaining a place in the team’s starting XI. “We consider him to be extremely important to the future of Real Madrid, and sometimes the future comes little by little,” he said.Real are 10th in La Liga and host Real Betis today.Barcelona face a major test of their form when they visit rejuvenated city rivals Espanyol today. Frank Rijkaard’s side have been in irresistible form this term, dropping their only points of the season in a 1-1 draw at Atletico Madrid, but Espanyol are flying high in an unaccustomed fifth place.