Clough The Autobiography

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a b Taylor, Daniel (11 November 2015). "Signing 'a hooligan' and a Shankly team talk: how Clough set up Forest for title". The Guardian . Retrieved 3 April 2018.

Clough was born on 21 March 1935 at 11 Valley Road, an inter-war council house in Grove Hill, Middlesbrough, North Riding of Yorkshire, [8] He was the sixth of nine children of a local sweet shop worker, later sugar boiler and then manager. The eldest, Elizabeth, died on 11 February 1927 [9] of septicaemia at the age of three. [10] When talking of his childhood he said he "adored it in all its aspects. If anyone should be grateful for their upbringing, for their mam and dad, I'm that person. I was the kid who came from a little part of paradise." On his upbringing in Middlesbrough, Clough claimed that it was "not the most well-appointed place in the world, but to me it was heaven". "Everything I have done, everything I've achieved, everything that I can think of that has directed and affected my life – apart from the drink – stemmed from my childhood. [11] Maybe it was the constant sight of Mam, with eight children to look after, working from morning until night, working harder than you or I have ever worked." 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.”Chris Cordner (20 August 2022). "Cloughie's Hartlepool years remembered in a new book - and there's loads about life in the town in the 60s" . Retrieved 20 August 2023.

Clough's manager at Sunderland was Alan Brown, a disciplinarian credited as a big influence on Clough. Brown inspired fear, imposed a strict code of conduct and would fine players for minor transgressions. He once upbraided Clough for talking to a friend during a training session. Such traits would later be adopted by Clough himself when he became a manager. [21] Hartlepools, Derby, Brighton and Forest, retired from football in 1982, bringing to an end their partnership. Several events had strained their friendship in the past: while at Derby, Taylor was riled when he learned that Clough had accepted a pay rise from Sam Longson without telling him; Taylor did not get one. Then, in 1980, Taylor released a book, With Clough, By Taylor, which detailed their partnership, but he had not told Clough that he was writing the book. [90] Six months after retiring, Taylor was appointed Derby County manager. When their teams met in the FA Cup third round on 8 January 1983 at the Baseball Ground, the two managers ignored each other and did not speak. Derby County won the match 2–0. 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)a b Stewart, Rob (27 March 2009). "Brian Clough: a man not afraid to make enemies". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 11 January 2022 . Retrieved 15 April 2019. a b "Brian Clough's career information from brianclough.com". Archived from the original on 6 April 2008. 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." He saw Clough twice after leaving. The first time, a few months later, Clough had just rewritten his will and Craig had got a mention. “He told me, ‘I said under no circumstances whatsoever is that thieving little shit to receive a penny.’” The last time he saw him, in late 1994, Clough said he, Simon and Nigel had considered getting the police involved. In the book, Craig quotes Clough as saying: “The three of us decided that we’d brought you down to give you a better life, and if the police had been involved, that would have been your life over. So we cut you loose.” Clough told him they still loved him. “Be good, and don’t be a stranger” were Clough’s last words to him. Craig never saw him again. Nottingham Forest’s John Robertson shoots to score the winning goal in the 1980 European Cup final against Hamburg. Photograph: Bob Thomas/popperfoto.com

So, this apparently intelligent man of the people was blinded by the light of truth for 12 long years. Bob Wilson, in his early days as a BBC pundit, said the “bubble would burst”. It turned out the bubble was made of something more substantial than soap and water, but even when Forest won their first European Cup the team award in the 1979 BBC Sports Personality of the Year show went to the British show-jumpers (“four effing horses,” as Forest’s secretary, Ken Smales, was heard to exclaim).

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For this one, Owen brought them together for a private showing that was emotional for everyone. “The beauty of this story is that it’s told by the people who were there,” Nigel says. “They know what Forest were in 1975 and they know what they were five years later, and they were part of that story.” Life with the Cloughs in the Derbyshire village of Quarndon was idyllic with occasional reminders of the fame that once saw Clough called out by Muhammad Ali. "Underneath it all he was normal. He travelled normally, he cooked for us. He treated us like sons." Slominski, Maciej (12 October 2013). "Jan Tomaszewski: A man haunted for ever after being called a clown". The Guardian . Retrieved 3 April 2018.