"Discipline in football is too important to be left to the players," Clough once told me, as I gently suggested that Forest's fair but manly style of play was being steamrollered by ruthless, over-physical opponents who happily beat up referees verbally.
He replaced one dictator in Chechnya with another nastier one and Russia had no hesitation in letting the ruthless Mohammed Najibullah take over in Afghanistan when its army left.
Set up in 2007 to unite a motley collection of local extremist outfits in the rough and restive regions along Pakistan's frontier with Afghanistan, the movement has had much of its time and energy taken up with bitter internal competition and maintaining its ruthless rule over the enclaves it has carved out over the years.
Essex claimed four wickets in a ruthless 16th over as Notts were dismissed for 140.
The eavesdropping revealed Mr. Gotti's ruthless control over a crew that included his younger brother, Gene, and Angelo Ruggiero.
This view became orthodoxy as a small group of scholars retained almost ruthless control over many scrolls for almost 40 years.
Faryab is the Wild West of Afghanistan, where militia commanders have wielded a ruthless power over their regional fiefdoms for decades, even since their official disarmament earlier this year.
Victoria Wood, 50 Why: Wood casts an affectionate but ruthless eye over the female underworld of M&S knickers, eating disorders, the school run and colonic irrigation.
We have seen how the Church of England and the Catholic church are forcing unwilling parents into church with their ruthless control over school's admissions.
"Stelfox epitomises this culture we have that is governed by pure and ruthless ambition over good taste and talent," says Niven, a former A&R man at London Records for 10 years.
