Who is Clough
Brian Clough, born on March 21, 1935, died on September 20, 2004, at the age of 69. He is a legendary shooter and a legendary coach. He has a strong personality and is full of charm and controversy in his words and deeds. The British have so far regretted that "Clough failed to coach the Three Lions". They gave Clough a title: "The best X coach who has not coached England [Weibo]."
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player X. Crow in the era of Craw Fort scored 204 goals in 222 league games, including 40+ goals in 4 consecutive seasons. It was here that Clough met Peter Taylor, the goalkeeper of Fort Mills, who was his right-hand man in shaping his legendary life in the future.
Clough showed a restless personality when he was a player. He often applied for transfers and had a strained relationship with his teammates (especially the guards). Clough once publicly bombarded the Fort Myers guards for gambling and deliberately leaking the ball. After a 6-6 draw, he provocatively asked the guard teammates: You say the number, how many goals do I have to score before we can win?
Because of the torn cruciate ligament, Clough was forced to retire at the age of 29. Together with the goals scored after the transfer to Sunderland, Clough has scored 251 goals in 274 league matches in his career. If the scorers in all levels of England have scored more than 200 goals, Clough has averaged 0.916 goals per game. , Is a record that no one can break so far.
Head coach and bus driver
In 1965, the 30-year-old Clough started his career as a head coach with Hartpool United. He is the youngest coach in the league. The team is a bad team in the fourth division and ranked last 5 times in the past 6 years. Two (both rely on re-voting to keep the league qualification). The team’s finances are also poor. As the coach, Clough often goes to a nearby tavern to lobby alcoholics to donate money to the team. Clough also went to take a bus driver’s license and served as the team’s driver in an away game.
In 1967, Clough left Hartpool, when he had taken the team to 8th in the league. A year after he left, Hartpool successfully promoted.
Coaching Derby County's cattle business.
Before Derby County
Clough came to Derby County, the Derby County team had been in the League B (second division) for 10 years. It took him two seasons to bring Derby County into The Champion of the League B, promoted to the old League One (top league). In these two seasons, Clough has completed a major renovation of Derby County. The old lineup has driven out 11 players and only 4 will be left. A large number of "owners" have been introduced. The original club secretary, field maintainer, and chief scout have all been lost. He drove, and even two tea ladies were fired because Clough heard them laughing after a loss.
After being promoted to the first division, Clough spent 4 years to bring the second division champion into the first division champion. In the 1971-72 season, Derby County defeated Liverpool [Weibo], Leeds and other veteran players, winning the top league championship for the first time in the team's history. In the final round, Liverpool was tied by Arsenal [微博][微博] and Leeds lost to Wolves (as long as one of the two teams wins, the champion is not Derby County). The winning Derby County picked up the championship. At that time, Clough had gone on vacation with his family, and he heard the best news.
With golden partner Pete Taylor and golden partner Pete Taylor in the
1972-73 season, Derby County reached the semifinals of the UEFA Champions League and was eliminated by Juventus [Weibo] with a total score of 1 to 3 in the semifinals. Clough believes The referee was bought by Juventus and made many unfair penalties. After the game, he came out of the locker room and faced the waiting Italian reporter. Clough said: "I don't talk to the cheating bastard." Then Clough said. Let's talk about how "seedless" the country of Italy was in World War II.
In 1973, Clough resigned from Derbyshire due to a discord with the senior management, but in the past six years, he has become famous in the English coaching circle.
Players killed 44 days
movie "Damn United" movie "Damn United"
In July 1974, Clough became the coach of the veteran champion Leeds United, but was fired after only 44 days. When Clough was in Derby County, he criticized the former Leeds coach Dunleavy’s team style for being too dirty (many fouls). After taking over Leeds, Clough even called Dunleavy’s meritorious players to the training ground and said: "You guys You can throw all the previous medals into the trash can, because it is not a fair competition."
Clough completely angered the Leeds players, and they were jointly killed. Leeds only won 1 of the 6 games. Once ranked fourth from the bottom. Seeing that Clough was at odds with the locker room, the Leeds executives announced that Clough would be fired and paid him 98,000 pounds, a large sum of money at the time. The story of Clough and Leeds was later made into a famous movie: "Damn League".
Forest Dynasty!
Clough (far right in the center row) and his forest team Clough (far right in the center row) and his forest team.
On January 6, 1975, Clough became the coach of the Nottingham Forest team. When he took over, the Forest team It was 13th in the second class, but look what happened next!
In the second full season led by Clough (76-77), Forest won the League B championship and was promoted to the top League One; the following year (77-78), Forest won the League One championship as a promoted horse, more than Liverpool Out of 7 points! Nowadays, when the newly promoted horse wins the championship directly, it is said that the "Kaiserslautern myth" is actually the "forest miracle" first.
In the 78-79 season, the myth is even more magical, and the forest won the European Champions Cup! In the 79-80 season, Forest successfully defended his title and won the European Champions Cup again! The last team that can defend their title in the Champions League is AC Milan [Weibo] (88-89, 89-90), and if you say "the last two", it must include Clough's Forest Dynasty.
What Clough himself valued more is that from November 26, 1977 to December 9, 1978, Forest's 42 unbeaten games in the league, which broke Burnley's record of 35 games in the 1920s. In 2004, one month after Clough's death, Wenger's Arsenal broke this record and eventually rewritten it to 49 undefeated games.
Top of Europe
Clough’s football philosophy is different from the traditional British style of high-altitude play. He once despised the English-style long pass game: "If God intended to make football fly around in the air, then It’s time to build a stadium in the clouds.” Clough is particular about passing and receiving the ball. He even summed it up like this: “Football is a red suit passing the ball to another.”
The era of Clough’s coaching was a The age of tough guys, fierce gods, and thorns. Hear how forest guard Kenny Burns described the scramble at that time: "The spikes of sneakers in that era were made of wood and supported by three pieces of metal inside. I would use a saw to saw each spike before the game and saw it off. The wood layer on the top reveals the metal so that when I tackle the ball, the studs can better penetrate into the opponent's flesh." "Nowadays football is all sissy. My body contact when I went to the supermarket to buy it was better than it is now. Football is fierce."
You can only be tougher than him when coaching such a group of ruthless roles. Manchester United [Weibo] [Weibo] Tough guy Roy Keane has only one coach in his life, Clough. After a game with the Forest team, Keane did not perform well (before joining Manchester United, he played for the Forest team) After the game, Clough said nothing in the locker room. A big slap knocked Keane to the ground, and the Irish tough guy didn't dare to come out. "At that time, when we were training, if we saw a shepherd dog running out and someone blowing a whistle, everyone would immediately become nervous because it was Clough who came to see the training." Keane recalled.
Last memory
It sounds like Clough is an ancient god, but for Chinese fans born in the 70s, he has actually seen him play against the Forest team. In the 1991 FA Cup [Weibo] final, Forest vs. Tottenham [微博], a domestic TV station in China broadcasted the FA Cup. Forest left back Pierce scored a free kick and Tottenham midfielder Gasco Due to the tragic injury and hiding his face, Tottenham striker Lineker missed a penalty, and Forest defender Des Walker lost his own. It may be the first appearance and final appearance of that dynasty team in front of the Chinese audience. bid farewell.
In the 1992-93 season, after selling key players such as Sheringham and Des Walker, the forest fell into a slump, and Clough was deeply involved in problems such as alcoholism and illegal transfers. That season, Forest was relegated from League One, and Clough also announced his retirement. A generation of Forest dynasty began and ended with him.
"I met Brian Clough that day" --- (memory of ordinary people)
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reunited the former dynasty. The members of the former dynasty reunited.
Bill Kenchington: "One day they Came to play against my Southampton, Clough walked over to greet the fans before the game. I joked to him: "I hope your players have eaten enough oatmeal (at the time Clough made a oatmeal ad), they need Get some energy to play this game’. Clough replied to me: “Young man, tonight, you will be surprised at what my team can do. “They broke our team!”
Gary Jarvis "At the end of the 1970s, I was a young poster painter. I was drawing a poster 500 yards away from the home of the Forest. Clough passed by and stopped to look at it for a while. "Young man, you are very skillful in painting. ', Clough said to me.'Thank you, sir', I replied. Since I left school, I have never called anyone else'sir', but in the face of Clough, you want to call that from the bottom of your heart ."
Jake Murray: "At the time I was driving on Nottingham Street. A car broke down and was stuck in the middle of the road. Some people were helping push the cart. I also went to help push it. I suddenly realized that there was a cart next to me. It's Brian Clough! The hero of Nottingham! I couldn't say anything at the time! The car was restarted and Clough said to me: Thank you, young man."
Stephen Nashville: "I'm 10 years old At the time, my parents took me to the Forest Stadium to watch a public training session, and there was also a tea vendor sponsored event. My father asked Clough if I could make him a cup of tea, but Clough pulled My hand took me into the field and introduced me to all the players! I still remember the shocked expressions on my parents' faces when Clough returned me back."
Jonathan Clarke: "When I was 7 years old, I I sent a copy of his souvenir to Clough, and he sent it back, and it said in his own hand: "Dear Jonathan, you must be fine. Brian Clough" I am 42 years old now, and he did this. Makes me a lifelong Forest fan. Today, how many coaches will do this?"
Philip Severn: "As a policeman, when the Clough house alarm goes off, I will pass every time. I am a hardcore forest fan, once , I talked to him about the Champions League final with Hamburg (Forest 1-0):'You know what? Brian, the final stage of that game, I was so nervous that I watched it through my fingers. "Clough smiled and replied: "You know what, boy, so do I.""
(Xiang Feng)
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