Brian Clough

[Slowboathome]

I'd not heard many of these stories before

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/clm3...

I wonder how he'd have fared in the modern game.

[Wheatsheaf]

"Carol his secretary said it was for a car, which I really wanted. It was a brand new BMW XR3i, a white one with a black soft top roof."

Interesting... but... BMW XR3i.....????

[Slowboathome]

Wheatsheaf said:

"Carol his secretary said it was for a car, which I really wanted. It was a brand new BMW XR3i, a white one with a black soft top roof."

Interesting... but... BMW XR3i.....????

Oops! I didn't notice that.

[AB]

Almost word for word the routine Crossley did when he was speaking at an event I was at a few weeks ago. Bored me to tears if I'm totally honest,

[Sport_Turismo_GTS]

Slowboathome said:

I wonder how he'd have fared in the modern game.

He’d have been great - none of the expenses would have gone through the books, so we’d have breezed past financial fair play!

[Gargamel]

If you can find it the story of BC signing Dean Saunders is much funnier.

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/football/dean-...

[Bluevanman]

YouTube is full of Clough stories.
He would have gone down well on Would I lie to you lol

[bern]

The most incredible Brian Clough story I've ever heard.

[Bluevanman]

bern said:

The most incredible Brian Clough story I've ever heard.

That's certainly a different side to old big head most of us wouldn't have known about.
Fair play to the whole Clough clan,just a shame he took their generosity and threw it in their faces

[hepy]

Clough was one of the few people that Roy Keane respected.

In Keane’s autobiographies, he only has a good word for Clough and Stuart Pearce. Oh, and Triggs.

[Gargamel]

https://youtube.com/shorts/ndqoWudLTC4?si=mf0Zl9Ge...

Right there is why he never became England manager.

[Bluevanman]

Gargamel said:

https://youtube.com/shorts/ndqoWudLTC4?si=mf0Zl9Ge...

Right there is why he never became England manager.

He would have been a terrible England manager.
He built relationships with players on a day to day basis,you can't do that when you only see them a few times a season.