Brian Clough

For the writer, see Bryan Clough.

Brian Clough

Personal information
Full name	Brian Howard Clough
Date of birth	21 March 1935(1935-03-21)
Place of birth	Middlesbrough, England
Date of death	20 September 2004(2004-09-20) (aged 69)
Place of death	Derby, England
Playing position	Striker
Youth career
1951–1953	Middlesbrough
1953–1955	Billingham Synthonia
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1955–1961	Middlesbrough	213	(197)
1961–1964	Sunderland	61	(54)
Total		274	(251)
National team
1957–1958	England U23	3	(1)
1957	England B	1	(1)
1959	England	2	(0)
Teams managed
1965–1967	Hartlepools United
1967–1973	Derby County
1973–1974	Brighton & Hove Albion
1974	Leeds United
1975–1993	Nottingham Forest
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Brian Howard Clough,^[1] OBE (21 March 1935 – 20 September 2004) was an English footballer and football manager. He is most notable for his success with Derby County and Nottingham Forest. His achievement of winning back-to-back European Cups with Nottingham Forest, a traditionally moderate provincial English club, is considered to be one of the greatest in football history.^[2] Charismatic, outspoken and often controversial, Clough is widely considered to be one of the greatest managers of the English game and the greatest English manager never to have managed the England team.^[3] He is closely associated with Peter Taylor, who worked with him as his assistant manager at various clubs in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.

On being asked about his attitude towards the England selectors he replied, "I’m sure the England selectors thought if they took me on and gave me the job, I’d want to run the show. They were shrewd because that’s exactly what I would have done".^[4]

In January 2009, four years after Brian Clough's passing, Nigel Clough, following his father's footsteps, became manager of Derby County. Nigel had preceded this with a 10-year spell as manager of Burton Albion, where Peter Taylor also had managed.

Brian Clough was portrayed by Michael Sheen in the 2009 film The Damned United.

Childhood

11 Valley Road, Grove Hill

Born at 11 Valley Road, an interwar council house in Grove Hill, Middlesbrough,^[5] Brian Clough was the sixth of nine children of a local sweet shop worker, later sugar boiler and then manager. The eldest, Elizabeth, died in 1927 of septicaemia at the age of four. 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 nicest 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.^[6] Maybe it was the constant sight of Mam, with eight children to look after, working from morning till night, working harder than you or I have ever worked."

Although a naturally bright child, in 1946 Clough failed his Eleven-plus exam, and attended Marton Grove Secondary Modern school.^[7] He later admitted in his autobiography that he had neglected his lessons in favour of sport, although at school he became head boy. Oddly enough, Clough stated in his autobiography 'Walking on Water' that cricket, rather than football, was his first love as a youngster, and that he'd have much rather scored a test century at Lords than a hat-trick at Wembley. Clough left school in 1950 without any qualifications, to work at ICI^[8] and did his national service in the RAF Regiment between 1953 and 1955.^[9]

Playing career

Clough played for Billingham Synthonia before his National Service in the RAF between 1953 and 1955. Following this, he became a prolific striker for his home town club Middlesbrough scoring 197 goals in 213 league matches for Boro.^[10] He then signed for Sunderland and scored 54 goals in 61 league games.^[10] On 26 December 1962, he injured his knee during a match against Bury after colliding with goalkeeper Chris Harker. It turned out to be a cruciate ligament injury, which usually ended a player's career at that time. Clough returned two years later but could manage only three games before retiring.

He played twice for the England national football team, against Wales on 17 October 1959 and Sweden on 28 October 1959, without scoring.

For players having scored over 200 league goals in the English leagues, he has the highest goals per game ratio of 0.916,^[11] and has second highest ratio in the list that includes the Scottish leagues.

Management career

Hartlepools United

Clough became a manager starting at Hartlepools United (the club's name has since been changed to Hartlepool United) with Peter Taylor as his assistant manager from October 1965. At the age of 30, Clough was then the youngest manager in the league.

In 1966 the then chairman, Ernest Ord sacked both Clough and Taylor. He was known for playing mind games with managers, including both Clough and Taylor. However, after their dismissals, they organised a boardroom coup which saw Ord ousted as chairman. In May 1967 the duo then joined Derby County as manager and assistant manager.

Derby County

Brian Clough and Peter Taylor Statue at Pride Park

Derby had been rooted in the Second Division for a decade prior to Clough's arrival, and had been outside the top flight for a further five years.

In Clough's first season the club finished one place lower than in the previous season, but he had started to lay the foundations for his future success by signing several new players, amongst them Roy McFarland, John O'Hare, John McGovern, Alan Hinton and Les Green. Of the inherited squad, eleven players departed and only four were retained: Kevin Hector, Alan Durban, Ron Webster and Colin Boulton. Clough also fired the club secretary, the groundsman and the chief scout, along with two tea ladies he caught laughing after a Derby defeat.^[12] With the additional signings of Dave Mackay and Willie Carlin in 1968, Clough and Taylor's management led Derby to become champions of Division Two, establishing the club record of 22 matches without defeat on the way.

Clough was universally seen as a hard but fair manager, who insisted on clean play from his players and brooked no stupid questions from the press. He was famous for insisting on being called 'Mr Clough' and earned great respect from his peers for his ability to turn a game to his and his team's advantage. Derby's first season back in Division One saw them finish fourth, their best league finish for over 20 years, but, due to financial irregularities, the club was banned from Europe the following season and fined £10,000.

In 1970–71 the club finished 9th, but during the 1971–72 season, Derby tussled with Liverpool, Leeds United and Manchester City for the title. Leading the table by one point having played their last match, a 1–0 win over Liverpool, Peter Taylor took his players on holiday to Majorca, where they learned that both title rivals had failed to win their final matches, meaning that Derby became champions for the first time in their then 88-year history. Clough was not with the squad at the time, instead holidaying in the Isles of Scilly with his family and parents when he received the news.

Feud with the Derby County Board of Directors

In August 1972 Clough refused to go on an arranged pre-season tour of the Netherlands and West Germany unless he could take his family with him. Derby chairman Sam Longson told him that it was a working trip not a holiday, so Clough put Taylor in charge of the tour instead, and refused to go. The club did not contest the FA Charity Shield that year.

On 24 August 1972, Clough and Taylor signed David Nish from Leicester City, for a then record transfer fee of £225,000, without consulting the Derby board.^[13] Afterwards, Jack Kirkland, a director, warned Clough and Taylor there would be no more expensive buys like Nish. Then, on 3 September 1972, Clough attacked the Derby County fans, stating that "They started chanting only near the end when we were a goal in front. I want to hear them when we are losing. They are a disgraceful lot", he said, after the team defeated Liverpool 2–1 at the Baseball Ground. In the same interview, Clough also attacked the club's board of directors for their policies. The following day, Board Chairman Sam Longson apologised to the fans and dissociated himself from Clough's remarks.

That season, Derby failed to retain their title, finishing 7th, but reached the semi-finals of the European Cup, before being knocked out by Juventus 3–1 in April 1973, on aggregate.^[14] After the game, Clough emerged from the dressing room and told the expectant Italian reporters, "No cheating bastards do I talk to. I will not talk to any cheating bastards."^[15] and then questioned the Italian nation's courage in the Second World War.^[16] It was these sorts of frequent, outspoken comments – particularly against football's establishment, such as the FA and club directors, and figures in the game such as Sir Matt Busby, Alan Hardaker, Sir Alf Ramsey, Don Revie and Len Shipman, along with players such as Billy Bremner, Norman Hunter and Peter Lorimer – combined with Clough's increased media profile, that eventually led to his falling out with Rams chairman, Sam Longson, and the Derby County board of directors.

On 5 August 1973, Clough put his name to an article in the Sunday Express which savaged Leeds United's disciplinary record, stating that Don Revie should be fined for encouraging his players in their unsporting behaviour and Leeds relegated to Division 2. Clough also said that "The men who run football have missed the most marvellous chance of cleaning up the game in one swoop" and went on to say, "The trouble with football's disciplinary system is that those who sat in judgment being officials of other clubs might well have a vested interest."

Days afterwards, Clough was charged with bringing the game into disrepute, but he was cleared after he had later resigned from Derby. In September 1973, Clough travelled to West Ham United's Boleyn Ground and made a £400,000 bid for Bobby Moore, a player he admired, and Trevor Brooking. Ron Greenwood told Clough that neither was available but that he would pass his offer onto the board of directors. Clough never told either his chairman, secretary or other board members at Derby about the bid. Longson found out four months later during a chance conversation with Eddie Chapman, West Ham's secretary at the time.

On 11 October 1973, Longson called for both Clough's and Taylor's sackings at a board meeting, but didn't gain the support that was needed to do so. Two days later, following a 1–0 win against Manchester United at Old Trafford, Jack Kirkland demanded to know what Taylor's role within the club was. Kirkland instructed Taylor to meet him at the ground two days later to explain. On the same day, Longson accused Clough of making a V-sign at Sir Matt Busby, and demanded that he apologise. Clough refused to do so, as he vehemently denied making the V-sign in the first place.

In the week before this incident, Longson demanded that Clough stop writing newspaper articles and making TV appearances, and had the grille pulled down on the bar to stop both Clough and Taylor drinking.

Resignation from Derby County

Eighteen months earlier, in April 1972, Clough and Taylor had briefly resigned for a few hours to manage Coventry City before changing their minds after getting more money from Longson. This time, it was for good. Both Clough and Taylor resigned on 15 October 1973, to widespread uproar from Rams fans, who demanded the board's resignation along with Clough and Taylor's reinstatement at the following home game against Leicester City five days later. That evening, Clough appeared on the Michael Parkinson show and attacked football directors for their apparent lack of knowledge of football. Earlier that week Clough, as a pundit, memorably called Jan Tomaszewski a clown after the crucial World Cup qualifier with England at Wembley. Tomaszewski made one or two good saves but also had outrageous luck, doing many thing wrong but getting away with it.^[17] When another commentator said, "You call him a clown, Brian, but he saved his side". Clough replied, "Would you want him in your team every week?" to which there was no answer. England did not qualify, as they had managed only a 1–1 draw.

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 Hartlepool. He left surrounded by fascination and great celebrity: abrasive, infuriating, but plugged, immovably, into a vein of the nation."^[18]

Brighton & Hove Albion

Such was the loyalty to Clough that along with himself and Taylor, scouts and backroom staff completed the walk out, following the pair for their brief spell with Brighton & Hove Albion.^[19] He proved less successful on the South Coast than with his previous club, winning only 12 of his 32 games in charge of the Division Three side. Whereas eight months earlier Clough was managing a team playing Juventus in the European Cup, he was now managing a club who, just after his appointment as manager, lost to Walton & Hersham 4–0 at home in an FA Cup replay. On 1 December 1973, his side lost 8–2 at home to Bristol Rovers. Albion eventually finished in 19th place that season.

Leeds United

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 was on record as stating to be not only overly aggressive but also effectively illegal in his opinion.^[20]

He lasted in the job only 44 days before he was sacked by the Leeds directors on 12 September 1974, after alienating many of Leeds's star players, notably Johnny Giles, Norman Hunter and Billy Bremner.^[21] During one of the first training sessions he took for Leeds United, he reportedly said "You can all throw your medals in the bin because they were not won fairly."^[22] He has the unenviable record of being Leeds United's least successful permanent manager, winning only one match from six games. Leeds were fourth from bottom in 19th position with only 4 points from a possible 12, their worst start in 15 years. His pay-off was estimated at £98,000, a huge amount at the time.^[23]

Clough told Yorkshire Television's Calendar his short reign at Elland Road was because of bad results.^[24]

Nottingham Forest

On 6 January 1975, Clough made a return to management with Nottingham Forest, who at the time were in 13th place in Division Two. Clough replaced Allan Brown. Clough's first game in charge was the third round FA Cup replay against Tottenham Hotspur, a 1–0 victory thanks to a goal by Scottish centre-forward Neil Martin.^[25]

Clough made fewer TV appearances whilst Forest manager, and toned down the outspoken comments he had made earlier at Derby. After finishing 8th in the old Second Division, in his first full season in charge alone, in July 1976 Clough was joined by his old assistant Peter Taylor from Brighton, who had just missed out on promotion from the old Third division.

Together, Clough and Taylor transformed the club's fortunes rapidly: the first success at the club came in Clough's second full season (1976–77) when they won promotion to Division One, finishing third. In their first season after promotion they won the League Cup, beating Liverpool 1–0 in a replay at Old Trafford, and were crowned champions of Division One, finishing seven points clear of nearest challengers Liverpool.

This made Clough the first manager since Herbert Chapman to win the English League Championship with two different clubs. Kenny Dalglish has since become the third person to achieve the feat (Liverpool and Blackburn). During the 1978–79 season, on 9 February 1979 Clough signed the 24-year-old Birmingham City striker Trevor Francis, Britain's first £1 million footballer. Forest retained the League Cup with a 3–2 victory over Southampton, but finished as runners-up to Liverpool in the league. The season was rounded off with victory in the European Cup final, thanks to a 1–0 victory over Malmö FF. A year later, Clough guided Forest to a second successive European Cup after victory over Hamburger SV and a third successive League Cup final, though this time they were defeated by Wolverhampton Wanderers 1–0.

Despite winning the European Cup twice, Clough regarded his greatest achievement to be the record breaking unbeaten run his team set between 26 November 1977 and 9 December 1978, the team went undefeated for 42 league games – the equivalent of a whole season, beating the previous record of 35 games held by Burnley.^[26] The record stood until August 2004, a month before Clough's death, when it was bettered by Arsenal, who went on to play 49 league games without defeat.

It was not until 1988–89 that Clough and Forest would enjoy another major trophy success, this time over Luton Town in the League Cup again. For a time, Forest were on course for a treble that season, but ultimately had to settle for third place in the league. Defeat in the FA Cup semi-finals was in a replay after the first game abandoned shortly after kick off due to the Hillsborough disaster. Clough had to manage the team from the stands in the latter half of the season as he was serving a touchline ban after hitting three supporters who had invaded the pitch at the end of a match against QPR.^[27] A year later, Clough guided Forest to another League Cup victory with a 1–0 over Oldham Athletic.

In 1991 Forest reached their first FA Cup final under Clough against Tottenham Hotspur. With typical idiosyncrasy, Clough selected 2 players Lee Glover and Ian Woan with only a handful of league games behind them and left England international Steve Hodge on the substitutes' bench preferring the young Roy Keane in the starting line up. After 90 minutes with the score at 1–1, Clough did not go on to the pitch to encourage or advise his players before extra time, but remained on the bench. Tottenham won 2–1 with an own goal by Des Walker in extra time. Keane later admitted in his autobiography that he was injured and shouldn't have taken part in the game.

They reached the League Cup final again in 1992, but lost 1–0 to Manchester United

The 1992–93 season was Clough's 18th with Forest – and his last. They were one of the 22 clubs in the new Premier League, but the sale of key players like Teddy Sheringham and Des Walker, combined with the manager's increasingly uncontrolled alcoholism, saw the club's fortunes take a sharp decline and they were bottom virtually all season. Just before a 2–0 defeat against Sheffield United confirmed the club's relegation after 16 years in the top flight, Clough announced his retirement as manager.

Clough's time at Forest saw him at odds with the late Justin Fashanu whose goals and then confidence dried up as he failed to fit in with the playing and lifestyle demands of Clough. When Clough discovered Fashanu's homosexuality he barred Fashanu from training with the side. Clough recounts a dressing down he gave Fashanu after hearing rumours that he was going to gay bars. "'Where do you go if you want a loaf of bread?' I asked him. 'A baker's, I suppose.' 'Where do you go if you want a leg of lamb?' 'A butcher's.' 'So why do you keep going to that bloody poofs' club?"'^[28]

Links with other jobs

As well as the England manager's job, Clough was linked with a string of other vacancies during his 18 years as Nottingham Forest manager.

In 1977, he was reportedly interested in the Everton manager's job, but Gordon Lee was appointed instead.^[29]

Following Mike England's resignation as manager of Wales in 1987, Clough was offered the position as manager of Wales on a part-time basis, something later done with John Toshack. Clough was keen on the chance to become an international manager, however the directors of Nottingham Forest refused to let him split his loyalties.^[30]In April 1986, Clough had declared that he intended to spend the rest of his managerial career with Nottingham Forest.^[31]

In June 1986, when interim manager Alex Ferguson rejected the offer of managing the Scotland national football team on a permanent basis (he had been in charge since the sudden death of Jock Stein nine months earlier), Clough was linked with the job of Scotland manager, but the vacancy was filled by Andy Roxburgh (a long-serving member of the Scotland coaching set up) instead. Clough had also been linked with the Republic of Ireland job the previous year, before it was filled by fellow Englishman Jack Charlton.^[32]

Rift with Taylor

Clough's relationship with Peter Taylor, his friend and long-time assistant at Derby, Brighton and Forest, was damaged permanently on 21 May 1983 over the transfer of John Robertson. The two fell out when Taylor, who had retired in May 1982 but then became manager of Derby six months later, signed the Forest winger without telling Clough beforehand. Robertson's transfer was contested, with the fee set by a tribunal, although Robertson was injured soon after joining Derby and never found his form. The rift had not been repaired by the time Taylor died in October 1990, but Clough and his family attended Taylor's funeral. When the assistant coach at Forest telephoned Clough to inform him of Taylor's death, he did not say anything and put the phone down. He allegedly cried heavily after this and his bad feeling over the unreconciled rift increased Clough's already heavy drinking.^[33] Clough dedicated his autobiography in 1994 to Taylor and when he was given the freedom of Nottingham he also paid tribute to him, as he did in September 1999 when a bust was unveiled of himself at the City Ground.

Retirement

Brian Clough Statue, Nottingham. Paid for by his fans

Clough retired as manager of Nottingham Forest in May 1993 to be succeeded by then Leyton Orient manager, and European Cup-winning Forest player under Clough, Frank Clark. Clark was able to achieve an instant return to the Premiership when the club finished Division One runners-up at the end of the 1993–94 season.

Much of Clough's retirement was spent concentrating on his fight against alcoholism, an addiction that had plagued him since the 1970s; his battle was chronicled in part by Duncan Hamilton. He considered applying for the job as manager of Wolverhampton Wanderers on the resignation of Graham Taylor in October 1995. Nothing came of it, however, and Clough's managerial career was over. Nottingham Forest honoured him by renaming the City Ground's largest stand, the Executive Stand, the Brian Clough Stand. Clough was made an inaugural inductee of the English Football Hall of Fame in 2002 in recognition of his huge impact as a manager.

In the early 1990s, Clough was implicated in the "bungs" scandal in English football involving then Tottenham Hotspur manager Terry Venables and chairman Alan Sugar and particularly the transfer of Teddy Sheringham from Forest to Tottenham. Clough was alleged to have received illegal payments during transfer negotiations and making illegal payments to players.^[34]

In August 2000, a tribute website was set up in honour of Clough with the backing of his family. The website www.brianclough.com is also the official site of the Brian Clough Statue Fund. This raised money for the statue of the master manager which was erected in Nottingham's Old Market Square on 6 November 2008.^[35]

In January 2003, the 67-year-old Clough underwent a liver transplant; 30 years of heavy drinking had taken its toll and doctors said that Clough would have died within two weeks without a transplant, as his liver was severely damaged and cancer had been found in it. The transplant gave Clough a new lease of life for the next 20 months; he took up light exercise again and appeared happier than he had for many years.

Clough's reputation for never sitting on the fence and strong views on all manner of football issues translated into a column which he wrote for Four Four Two magazine up until his death.

Personal life and family

Clough was a life-long socialist, often appearing on miners' picket lines, donating large sums to trade union causes, and being the chairman of the Anti-Nazi League.^[36] On two occasions he was approached by the Labour Party to stand as a parliamentary candidate in general elections, although he declined in order to continue his managerial career in football.^[37] During the 1979 general election campaign when it looked very likely that Margaret Thatcher would become Prime Minister, he told a meeting that he had not come to make a speech to them but just to tell them that "If my taxes are cut, you bloody lot are going to pay for it."^{[citation needed]}

On 4 April 1959, Clough married Barbara Glasgow in Middlesbrough. They went on to have three children; Simon, born in 1964, Nigel, born in 1966 and Elizabeth, born in 1967. Nigel Clough, himself a professional football player and manager, latterly with Burton Albion, in January 2009 followed in his father's footsteps by taking over the management position at Derby County.^[38]

A lover of cricket, he was good friends with Yorkshire and England cricketer Geoffrey Boycott.

Death and legacy

Brian Clough Statue, Middlesbrough

Clough died of stomach cancer on 20 September 2004, on Ward 30,^[39] in Derby City Hospital, at the age of 69, having been admitted a few days earlier.^[39] Such was his popularity, fans of Derby County and Nottingham Forest, usually the fiercest of rivals, mourned together following his passing. A memorial service was held at Derby's Pride Park Stadium on 21 October 2004 which was attended by more than 14,000 people. It was originally to have been held at Derby Cathedral, but had to be moved because of demand for tickets.^[40]

In August 2005 the stretch of the A52 linking Nottingham and Derby was renamed Brian Clough Way.^[41] His widow Barbara expressed her gratitude to Nottingham City Council, saying: "Brian would have been amazed but genuinely appreciative". Since the opening of the Nottingham Express Transit system, tram No. 215 has been named Brian Clough.^[42]

After a long process of fund-raising, his home town of Middlesbrough commissioned a statue of Clough, which was unveiled on 16 May 2007.^[43] Although there was a movement to erect a statue in Grove Hill, his birthplace, the site chosen was Albert Park, Middlesbrough through which he usually walked on his way from home to Ayresome Park, Middlesbrough's former stadium.^[44]

In December 2006, the Brian Clough Statue Fund in Nottingham announced it had raised £69,000 in just 18 months for a statue of Clough in the city. The winning statue was selected from a choice of three designs in January 2008. The site chosen for the statue is at the junction of King Street and Queen Street in the centre of Nottingham. On 6 November 2008 the statue was unveiled by Mr Clough's widow Barbara in front of a crowd of more than five thousand people.^[45] In 2007/8 a redevelopment scheme building new houses on the old Middlesbrough General Hospital site named roads after famous ex Middlesbrough F.C. players including, Willie Maddren, George Camsell and Clough.

Derby County and Nottingham Forest competed for the inaugural Brian Clough Trophy at Pride Park Stadium on 31 July 2007.^[46] In future, any league, cup or friendly game played between Derby and Forest will automatically become a Brian Clough Trophy game. Proceeds from the game will go to charities in the East Midlands.^[47]

In April 2009, Derby County announced that they would erect a statue of the former Rams managers Clough and Peter Taylor, at Pride Park, with sculptor, Andy Edwards, who previously produced the Steve Bloomer bust already in the stadium, commissioned for the statue.^[48] The Brian Clough and Peter Taylor Monument was officially unveiled in a family service on 27 August 2010 and publicly on 28 August 2010. ^[49]

Honours

Derby County

• Second Division: 1968/69
• Watney Cup: 1970
• First Division: 1971/72

Nottingham Forest

• First Division: 1977/78
• FA Charity Shield: 1978
• League Cup: 1977/78, 1978/79, 1988/89, 1989/90
• European Cup: 1978/79, 1979/80
• European Super Cup: 1979

Individual Awards

• English Manager of the Year: 1978
• Sunderland Solid Gold XI^[50]

The Damned United

The story of his short spell in charge of Leeds has been adapted into a film called The Damned United starring Michael Sheen, released in 2009, and based on David Peace's novel The Damned Utd. The publishers of the novel were successfully sued by Irish midfielder Johnny Giles who wrote, "Many of the things Peace talks about in the book never happened and for that reason, I felt it necessary to go to the Courts to establish that this was fiction based on fact and nothing more."

The book includes a scene with Clough in the Elland Road car park burning Don Revie's old desk. There is no factual source for this. The Clough family have expressed disappointment at the publication of the book.^[51]

Statistics

Manager

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
G	W	D	L	Win %
Hartlepools United		1 Oct 1965	1 May 1967	&1000000000000008400000084	&1000000000000003500000035	&1000000000000001300000013	&1000000000000003600000036	&1000000000000004167000041.67
Derby County		1 Jun 1967	15 Oct 1973	&10000000000000289000000289	&10000000000000135000000135	&1000000000000007000000070	&1000000000000008400000084	&1000000000000004671000046.71
Brighton & Hove Albion		1 Nov 1973	30 Jul 1974	&1000000000000003200000032	&1000000000000001200000012	&100000000000000080000008	&1000000000000001200000012	&1000000000000003750000037.50
Leeds United		30 Jul 1974	12 Sep 1974	&100000000000000070000007	&100000000000000010000001	&100000000000000030000003	&100000000000000030000003	&1000000000000001428999914.29
Nottingham Forest		6 Jan 1975	8 May 1993	&10000000000000907000000907	&10000000000000411000000411	&10000000000000246000000246	&10000000000000250000000250	&1000000000000004531000045.31
Total				1319	594	340	385	45.03

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External links

• brianclough.com
• Brian Howard Clough – Facebook Fan Page
• Brian Clough timeline
• BBC Obituary
• BBC quotations by Clough
• Brian Clough on BBC Tees
• Nottingham Forest's double European Cup win
• Brian Clough Autobiography Walking on Water
• Brian Clough management career stats at Soccerbase
• English Football Hall of Fame Profile
• Brian Clough Quotes
• Full Managerial Stats for Leeds United from WAFLL

Achievements
Preceded by Bob Paisley	European Cup Winning Coach 1978–79 & 1979–80	Succeeded by Bob Paisley

Persondata
Name	Clough, Brian
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	1935-03-21
Place of birth	Middlesbrough, England
Date of death	2004-09-20
Place of death	Derby, England