Clough The Autobiography

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David Lacey on one of Britain's greatest football managers". The Guardian. London. 11 March 2009 . Retrieved 11 July 2009. On 27 April 1972, less than two weeks before taking Derby to the league title, Clough and Taylor had briefly resigned for a few hours to manage Coventry City before changing their minds after Longson offered them more money. gr8footy (21 December 2013). "15/03/1980 Wolverhampton W v Nottingham Forest". Archived from the original on 4 November 2021 . Retrieved 3 April 2018– via YouTube. {{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list ( link) Who did you decide is in Middlesbrough FC's greatest ever XI?". Northern Echo. 8 July 2017 . Retrieved 27 May 2021. Dig deeper and you’ll find books framed against the game’s irrational passions and ambitions that are among the best books written about anything. Don’t believe me? Have a look at my Top 10. It should have been 11, but Ayrshire Junior football teams always get one sent off early for dissent. So, in that spirit, here are the 10 still on the field as the final whistle blows.

Woodward, Hamish (2 July 2021). "When Brian Clough Almost Took Charge of Wales". Atletifo Sports . Retrieved 8 July 2021. Stafford-Bloor, Seb (15 August 2019). "An ode to Peter Taylor, a man who history has done a great disservice". Planet Football . Retrieved 8 September 2021. So, this apparently intelligent man of the people was blinded by the light of truth for 12 long years. Theres only one Brian Clough Why we – and some Leeds fans – love Old Big Ead and his green jumper – Derby County News from". football.co.uk. 11 March 2009 . Retrieved 11 July 2009. Riley, Catherine (23 September 1997). "Football: After 13 years Anderlecht are punished by Uefa". The Independent . Retrieved 7 June 2013.Even now, he follows Nigel's teams with a passion, having switched his support from Burton Albion to Mansfield when he moved clubs. He goes to games home and away. "It is my weak way of showing I am loyal when I was not loyal as a kid," he explains. He would send newspaper cuttings of his success in Poland to the Clough family, perhaps in the hope that they would feel some pride and vindication in their decision. He was not so much proving them wrong but proving them right for giving him that chance. In 2011, his family and friends contributed memories to a book entitled The Day I Met Brian Clough, which also included recollections from fans and journalists. [111]

If Brian hadn’t done what he did,” Craig says now, “I wouldn’t have had a life, because I would have been in prison.”It was a tough upbringing. "I never felt safe in my own home." His father, technically his stepfather, would beat his mother and had been a somewhat notorious figure. "He did not exactly make it easy on himself or us by becoming a drug dealer," says Craig. Seven deadly sins of football: Lust – from Antonio Cassano to a Dutch pool party". The Guardian. 21 May 2009 . Retrieved 3 April 2018. Smart, Andy (8 October 2018). "New book sheds light on Brian Clough's ill-fated spell in charge at Brighton". Nottingham Post . Retrieved 20 September 2022. Barbara's Message;". brianclough.com. August 2010. Archived from the original on 18 September 2010 . Retrieved 1 August 2010.