Clough The Autobiography

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On 18 January 1989, Clough joined the fray of a City Ground pitch invasion by hitting two of his own team's fans when on the pitch. The football authorities fined Clough and issued him with a touchline ban. [79] Forest defeated QPR 5–2 in that 1988–89 Football League Cup tie. [80] So, this apparently intelligent man of the people was blinded by the light of truth for 12 long years. Brian Clough Statue: Nottingham City Council". Nottinghamcity.gov.uk. 8 May 2009. Archived from the original on 23 May 2009 . Retrieved 11 July 2009. They did not want to ruin my life. Brian did say that he had brought me down to give me a better life and if he had called the police my life would have been over. It is something I struggle with, letting them down as I did when they had shown me such love.

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.As for Gillian, she forced Craig to commit fraud on her behalf – dropping him off at the post office so he could sign a false name on a stolen pension book and collect the money on behalf of his “auntie”. Jerry died 31 years ago, and today Craig is close to Gillian: “She’s a fighter, a survivor – she’s incredibly strong.” I broke down in the office and could not stop crying for 10 to 15 minutes. I was angry with myself for not fixing it. It left me with such a hole. I have had a fantastic life since meeting Brian but nothing can follow that. It is heart-breaking that he has gone. I was crushed." Brian Clough Statue Unveiled". brianclough.com. 6 November 2008. Archived from the original on 13 January 2009 . Retrieved 6 November 2008. While he talks to Nigel now, there was no reunion with his father. He came close once. At Burton Albion during Nigel's first spell there, but stopped himself. "It was totally my fault. I just bottled it at the last minute because I did not know what to say."

Equally, just consider the six teams in the hall of fame at the National Football Museum. Manchester United’s European Cup winners from 1968 are honoured, as are the Busby Babes of the 1950s. The Liverpool team of 1978 have been inducted, along with England’s 1966 World Cup winners, Preston’s Invincibles and the Manchester City side that won the league, the FA Cup and European Cup-Winners’ Cup from 1968 to 1970. Only teams that played over 25 years ago can be nominated. Aston Villa, European Cup winners in 1982, are the sixth and, in all those cases, nobody could possibly argue it was undeserved.

On it went. When Craig was 13, Clough invited the boys to stay with his family for a couple of days in Quarndon, a well-to-do village in Derbyshire. Clough realised the boys came from a struggling family, but he didn’t know the half of it. By the time they met him, they had been in and out of care much of their lives. Craig’s first memory of his biological father is him smashing a mirror over his mother, Gillian’s, head. After his parents split up, he had nothing more to do with him. When Aaron’s father, Jerry, moved in with Gillian, they brought Craig home from care and Jerry became his new dad. The family (Gillian had an older son and daughter from her first marriage) was dysfunctional in the extreme. Both parents were lawless and had served prison sentences. Jerry was artistic, troubled and physically abusive. He threw Gillian out of the bedroom window on one occasion, and broke her fingers on another. Jerry had been racially abused all his life, and ended up selling drugs and thieving to make a living. The boys were also racially abused – Aaron because he was mixed race, Craig because he was his white brother. 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. Charismatic, outspoken and often controversial, Clough is considered one of the greatest managers of the English game. His achievements with Derby and Forest, two clubs with little prior history of success, are rated among the greatest in football history. [5] His teams were also noted for playing attractive football and for their good sportsmanship. [6] Despite applying several times and being a popular choice for the job, he was never appointed England manager and has been dubbed the "greatest manager England never had". [7] Childhood [ edit ] 11 Valley Road, Grove Hill Clough left Brighton less than a year after his appointment, in July 1974, to become manager of Leeds United, following Don Revie's departure to become manager of England, though this time Taylor did not join him. Clough's move was very surprising given his previous outspoken criticism of both Revie, for whom Clough made no secret of his deep disdain, and the successful Leeds team's playing style, which Clough had publicly branded "dirty" and "cheating". [33] Furthermore, he had called for Leeds to be demoted to the Second Division as a punishment for their poor disciplinary record.

Middlesbrough'S Statue". Brianclough.com. 16 May 2007. Archived from the original on 29 March 2009 . Retrieved 11 July 2009.

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The six years at Derby County had brought Clough to the attention of the wider football world. According to James Lawton, "Derby was the wild making of Brian Clough. He went there a young and urgent manager who had done impressive work deep in his own little corner of the world at Hartlepools. He left surrounded by fascination and great celebrity: abrasive, infuriating, but plugged, immovably, into a vein of the nation." [31] Brighton & Hove Albion [ edit ] While it concerns itself with his turbulent 44-day reign as manager of Leeds – aka "dirty Leeds" – the film, based on the book by Red Riding author David Peace, has inevitably opened up a wider debate on Clough's career and character. I would have gone to prison because the amount was substantial. My life at that point would have been ruined by a criminal record, a reputation. I had no education. I would have had no chance if they had done what they could have done. To date there have been at least 21 books about Brian Clough and, I suspect, a few more to come. Has any other football manager had as many written about him? Not surprisingly, some have been extremely controversial with David Peace’s The Damned United the most notorious. The first book on our legendary manager was With Clough written by Peter Taylor. Brian was reportedly extremely upset that his long-time assistant and friend thought fit to go into print and it did nothing at all for their relationship which was already souring. Clough was also unhappy about Tony Francis’s controversial Clough – A Biography. Arguably the best book on the subject is Duncan Hamilton’s Provided You Don’t Kiss Me but unfortunately for Rams fans it is about his time at the City Ground. I also particularly enjoyed Clough’s War by Don Shaw, A Right Pair by Maurice Edwards and George Edwards’ Right Place, Right Time.