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By

Richard Churchill

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Introduction

This project is a very brief report on the football legend,Brian Clough. It will cover his playing and managementyears, also it will show the honours inside and outsidefootball the man earned. I hope it will be informative foreveryone who reads it.

The early years

Brian Howard Clough was born on the 21st of March 1935 inMiddlesbrough. He was the fifth of eight children. He livedon a council estate in Middlesbrough. His dad worked as asugar boiler in a local sweet factory, and his mum was ahousewife.

He was head boy at Marton Grove Secondary Modern School.His dream was to play cricket for England. He left school at

fifteen with no formal qualifications, and upon doing so wasadvised by his mum to put in for a nice job as a fitter andturner at ICI, which he did until he failed his apprenticeshipat the age of sixteen. So he got a job filling in overtimesheets for the same company, it was here he met his futurewife, Barbara. It is here he started to dream about becominga footballer. He was spotted playing for Great Broughton byRay Grant who helped run the Middlesbrough youth side.

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The player

After a short spell in the youth team he was given a

professional contract of 1 a week retainer and 7 if heplayed. He then did his National Service in the RAF. When hereturned he made his professional debut against Barnsley on17th September 1955 and scored his first league goal againstLeicester City on the 8th October 1955. He played a further222 games for Middlesbrough scoring 204 goals, he playedthere until 1961. In this time he won two England caps in1959 against Wales and Sweden. He also became thequickest ever player to score 200 league goals, a record

which still stands today.

In the July of 1961 he transferred to Sunderland for around45,000, he scored 54 goals in 61 games, until he wasinjured on Boxing Day 1962. It was a knee cruciate ligamentinjury which in those days finished careers. He finally retiredat the age of 29, in 1964 and joined the Sunderland coachingstaff. He was made youth team manager but was latersacked.

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The manager

In 1965 he was given his first management job atHartlepools (now Hartlepool United). It was here one of the

greatest double acts in football management was to learntheir trade. Peter Taylor, who was a reserve goalkeeper atMiddlesbrough when Clough was playing, agreed to leave his

job as Burton Albion manager to assist Clough. He was therefor two seasons.

Both he and Taylor then went on to manage Derby County.He took on a struggling 2nd division team. Within twoseasons he had won the 2nd division title, two seasons later

they were the football league champions and a season afterthat they were European Cup semi-finalists. He resigned inOctober 1973 due to the chairman questioning if he was upto his job. The Derby County fans protested at the ground totry to pressure the chairman to leave and Clough and Taylorstay, but nothing came of this.

After this there was a brief appointment at Brighton & HoveAlbion between November 1973 and July 1974. Then in 1974came the now infamous forty four days in charge of LeedsUnited.

But then in January 1975 he became the manager ofNottingham Forest again with Peter Taylor as his assistant.Like Derby County before these were an awkward 2nd divisionside, but yet again he was due to work his magic in his ownunique style. At this club he won the League Championship,four League Cups, two European Cups and an Anglo-ScottishCup. Forest was to be his last club, in 1993 his last game in

charge was a 2.0 defeat by Sheffield United, which sawForest relegated.

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This is a chart showing his results per club:

Club Games

Played

Games

Won

Games

Drawn

Games

Lost

Goals

Scored

Goals

AgainstHartlepools

79 35 13 31 114 113

DerbyCounty

264 126 61 77 397 298

Brighton& HoveAlbion

32 12 8 12 39 42

Leeds

United

6 1 2 3 4 8

Nottingham Forest

759 331 207 221 1124 837

Total 1140 505 291 344 1678 1298

As you can see this table shows that the man is one of thefew long serving managers to finish with a winning record.But its not just this that made him a special manager, he

also did things with a special style. He was the first managerto have a coloured captain and England international in VivAnderson (in 1978), and was the first manager to spend amillion pound on a player, Trevor Francis (in 1979).

He was also famous for his outlandish statements (Iwouldnt say I was the best manager in the game, but I wasin the top one) and his legendary nickname for himself wasOld Big Head. He was never afraid to speak his mind or tosort out players who were getting too big for their own good.

There were all sorts of drama surrounding him, beingoverlooked for the England job in 1977, alleged bungs,slapping fans who invaded the pitch after a game (thengiving them a kiss as an apology), slapping players and ofcourse the drink.

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Life outside football

Outside football Clough was very much a family orientatedman (his mother installed that into him). He had two sons,

Simon and Nigel (who himself went on to play for Englandand is now the manager of Derby County) and a daughterElizabeth. He was married to Barbara in 1959 and they werestill together when he passed away after a long battle withthe bottle on 24th September 2004. He was also a memberof the Labour Party and was offered to stand against WinstonChurchill for election. He was awarded the freedom onNottingham in 1993 and an OBE (some called the Order ofthe Big Ed) in 2002.

In memory of the man a bronze statue has been erected ofhim in Nottingham.

Photo by: Ian Plumb

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www.brianclough.com www.guardian.co.uk/news/2004/sep/21/guardianobitua

ries.football www.brianclough.com/ Clough: The Autobiography

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