Brian Howard Clough OBE (/klʌf/ KLUF; 21 March 1935 – 20 September 2004) was an English football player and manager, primarily known for his successes as a manager with Derby County and Nottingham Forest. He is one of four managers to have won the English league with two different clubs. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest managers of all time. Charismatic, outspoken and often controversial, his achievements with Derby and Forest, two clubs with little prior history of success, are rated among the greatest in football history. His teams were also noted for playing attractive football and for their good sportsmanship. 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". More about Brian Clough
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Clough played as a striker for Middlesbrough and Sunderland, scoring 251 league goals in 274 matches; he remains one of the Football League's highest goalscorers. He won two England caps. He entered management after his playing career was ended by a serious injury at the age of 29. As a manager, Clough was closely associated with Peter Taylor, who served as his assistant manager at several clubs in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. He is also remembered for giving frequent radio and television interviews in which he made controversial remarks about players, other managers and the overall state of the game. In 1965, he took the manager's job at Fourth Division Hartlepools United and appointed Peter Taylor as his assistant, the start of an enduring partnership that would bring them success at several clubs over the next two decades. In 1967, the duo moved on to Second Division Derby County who, in 1968–69, were promoted as Second Division champions and, three years later, crowned champions of England for the first time in the club's history. In 1973, they reached the semi-finals of the European Cup. By this point, Clough's relationship with chairman Sam Longson had deteriorated; he and Taylor resigned.In total, we tracked 1189 items since 01/09/2012. The chart below shows the trade volume over time.
The most expensive item with a signature of Brian Clough (Brian Clough signed Nottingham Forest Framed Display autograph book page PROOF) was sold in November 2017 for £450.00 while the cheapest item (Cloughie - signed VHS The Brian Clough Story) found a new owner for £0.99 in May 2022. The month with the most items sold (44) was December 2012 with an average selling price of £2.99 for an autographed item of Brian Clough. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in October 2017 with £68.50 and the month that saw the lowest prices with £2.99 was November 2012. In average, an autographed item from Brian Clough is worth £19.99.
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An original letter signed by Brian Clough OBE | £30.00 | ||
BRIAN CLOUGH ** SIGNED** BOOK CLOUGH THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY HARDBACK 1994 | £26.00 | ||
BRIAN CLOUGH - THE BIOGRAPHY. . . . . . . . SIGNED. | £9.99 | ||
Brian Clough Autographed Hardback Book CLOUGH THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY 1994 | £19.00 | ||
BRIAN CLOUGH SIGNED 7 X 5 INCH BLACK & WHITE MAGAZINE PICTURE - CIRCA 1968 | £3.99 | ||
Brian Clough The Autobiography Signed Copy - Nottingham Forest & Middlesbrough | £25.00 | ||
Football Manager Brian Clough OBE Autograph On Card. 7cm X 17cm. | £4.99 | ||
Great Nottingham Forest Manager BRIAN CLOUGH †69 IN 2004 signed page & PC pic | £8.00 | ||
LARGE PIC - HAND-SIGNED AUTOGRAPH - BRIAN CLOUGH - SUNDERLAND DERBY NOTTM FOREST | £4.99 | ||
Signed Copy of Cloughie Walking on Water by Brian Clough With No Personalisation | £59.99 |
MY FAVOURITE SHIRT - FRANK CLARK: Nottingham Forest home 1978-79... Winning the (04/05/24): FRANK CLARK: I was sweating on a starting place so when Brian Clough came over on the morning of the match to say I was in, the over-riding emotion was relief.
Johnny Metgod talks Brian Clough and THAT free-kick against West Ham (03/31/23): EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY MATT BARLOW: He starts with the free-kick against West Ham. Where else? That free-kick has developed a life of its own since the onset of social media
Roy Keane says he deserved the PUNCH he took from Brian Clough (01/25/23): Erik ten Hag took a step closer to winning a trophy in his debut season at Manchester United, as his side thrashed Nottingham Forest 3-0 in the first leg of the Carabao Cup semi-final on Wednesday.
FLASHBACK - The day Brian Clough punched his own fans (05/19/22): The City Ground is no stranger to deplorable scenes during pitch invasions. Tuesday evening saw one of the worst incidences of fan violence against a player in recent memory.
Nottingham Forest have come to terms with Brian Clough's legacy and pushing for (04/15/22): Close observers of the two-time European Cup winners say Forests success on the pitch has long been in the making off it, and a rejuvenation of the fan base is a key part of the transformation.
Nottingham Forest boss Steve Cooper embraces club's legendary sides ahead of Liv (03/2022): JOE BERNSTEIN: Some managers rip down pictures of great teams from the past but Steve Cooper is happy to sing the achievements of Brian Clough's European Cup winners from the rooftops.
Brian Clough's amazing anecdotes are unmatched in modern football (12/2020): Brian Clough's was a personality football will never forget, leaving behind a goldmine of stories after a lifetime tied to the game. Here, we take a look into the master manager's greatest tales.
Chris Sutton quizzes Martin O'Neill about Brian Clough, Roy Keane and getting th (08/2020): Celtic were a broken club in the first half of 2000. They were beaten by Inverness in the Scottish Cup, a defeat which prompted the headline: 'Super Caley go ballistic, Celtic are atrocious'.
40 years on, the scale of the European Cup win by Brian Clough's Nottingham Fore (05/2020): The night ended with some of the team playing Connect 4 in a remote hotel and others heading for the bright lights in a clapped-out Spanish saloon car.
Roy Keane insists Brian Clough WOULD thrive in the modern game (04/2020): Keane, who was just 19 when he started working with Clough, went on to play three seasons under him before he retired from the dugout after suffering relegation in the first ever Premier League season.
Spotted in the stands: Brian Clough lookalike found at Forest after match snap s (02/2015): Jim Parsons has been thrust into the limelime after being spotted by supporters in a crowd picture from the City Ground
Tributes paid to Lowestoft football referee praised by Brian Clough as one of th (01/2015): Tributes have been paid to a well-known football referee - described by the legendary Brian Clough as one of the best in the country - who lived in Lowestoft all his life.
Accies ace Mickael Antoine-Curier vows to prove legendary manager Brian Clough r (12/2014): HAMILTON'S journeyman striker, Mickael Antoine-Curier reveals his dream to make it big in England and fulfil the potential that legendary boss Brian Clough saw in him.
Is Arsenal Boss Arsene Wenger doing a Brian Clough by staying too long? (11/2014): WHEN Brian Clough turned Nottingham Forest into European Cup winners, among other things, he could do no wrong. However, with loyalty can come a price. Brian Clough stayed in Nottingham too long, going from all conquering and refreshingly out-spoken, to …
Damned United author sells rights to save theatre - story of Brian Clough’s Leed (10/2014): It was 44 days that became infamous in the history of Leeds United Football Club.
Nottingham Forest fans wear green Brian Clough jumpers on 10-year anniversary of (09/2014): Nottingham Forest fans travelling to White Hart Lane for the club's Capital One Cup fixture against Tottenham have been pictured wearing 1000 commemorative Brian Clough jumpers.
David Hockaday lasted 26 days longer than Brian Clough but his sacking provides (08/2014): It wasn't quite the 44 damned days of Brian Clough's Leeds United reign 40 years ago, but David Hockaday's spell at Elland Road did not last a great deal longer.
Mike Ingham recalls his 10 fondest memories from a sparkling career at the BBC, (07/2014): As he prepares to step down as the BBC's chief football correspondent this weekend, Mike Ingham reveals his top 10 fondest memories from nearly three decades covering football all over the world. He was speaking to Sportsmail's Matt Barlow.
Our struggle to stop Brian Clough boozing as years of alcohol abuse took its tol (06/2014): ROY McFARLAND: Though it was stomach cancer that ultimately killed Brian Clough, at the age of 69, his health had already been declining, due to years of alcohol abuse.
Carlo Ancelotti delivered the 'missing' trophy... but Diego Simeone's heroic mis (05/2014): It was difficult to know where to focus the praise on Saturday. Few coaches are more dignified, talented or popular than Carlo Ancelotti. He is a man fit to equal Bob Paisley as a three-time winner of footb
Flashback: Justin Fashanu's wondergoal for Norwich which prompted a £1m move to (04/2014): As Liverpool prepare to visit Carrow Road, memories come back of the day a youngster announced himself with a remarkable goal
UK PRWeb published The 10 Worst Roads In Britain Announced - Brian Clough Would (03/2014): Article
Brian Clough's widow Barbara died days after hitting head in hospital car park f (02/2014): Barbara Clough, 75, was sent home by medics following the accident at Royal Derby Hospital on July 11 last year."> Share Barbara Clough, 75, was sent home by medics following the accident at Royal Derby Hospital on July 11 last year.">
ON THE ROAD: Time at the bar has put Steve McClaren on Brian Clough's trail at D (12/2013): Few find the answer in the bottom of a pint glass but, for Steve McClaren, a couple of nights down the pub seems to have worked wonders. The Derby County head coach met supporters during a series of ‘A Night with the Rams’ evenings in Derbyshire pubs in October, answering questions and finding out w
Barcelona, Brian Clough, Gary Pallister and Chris Waddle are all featured in new (11/2013): From Fergie to Harry, it’s been the year for must-read football books – and now the non-league game has produced its own best-seller.
The Sports Brief and Murray Meets... a Brian Clough special (09/2013): The day's news with a twist, and some great tales about the late Brian Clough ahead of this weekend's clash between two of his former clubs, Nottingham Forest and Derby.
John Giles on the Damned Utd, Leeds's reputation and Brian Clough (08/2013): Don Revie's great No10 looks back at the tarnished image of the team he served so well A measure of how deeply The Damned Utd invaded the psyche is that when John Giles speaks of Leeds in the
New Hartlepool manager Cooper happy to follow in Brian Clough’s footsteps (05/2013): THE new Clough and Taylor?