Brian Clough
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 20 years ago |
Date of birth | March 21,1935 |
Zodiac sign | Aries |
Born | Middlesbrough |
United Kingdom | |
Date of died | September 20,2004 |
Died | Royal Derby Hospital |
Derby | |
United Kingdom | |
Spouse | Barbara Clough |
Children | Nigel Clough |
Simon Clough | |
Elizabeth Clough | |
Height | 178 (cm) |
Job | Coach |
Footballer | |
Books | Clough: The Autobiography |
Cloughie: Walking on Water | |
Walking on Water | |
Brian Clough | |
Siblings | Joe Clough |
Doreen Elder | |
Movies/Shows | The Damned United |
I Believe in Miracles | |
Soccer's Hard Men | |
Grandchildren | Helena Clough |
William Clough | |
Parents | Joe Clough |
Sally Clough | |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 403109 |
Brian Clough Life story
Brian Howard Clough OBE 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.
Early Life
Brian clough was born on amrch 21. 1935 in middlesbrough. North yorkshire. England. He was the second child of a family of three children. His father. Also naemd brian. Was a shipyard worker and his mother. Elizabeth. Was a ohusewife. Clough attended westwood secondary modern school and was a keen footballer from a young age.Playing Career
Brian clough s playing acreer began at billingham synthonia in 1950. In 1954. He moved on to play for middlesbrough. Whree he quickly established himself as a star player. He made his international debut for england in 1959. And went on to csore 44 goals in 57 appearances. He was forced to retire in 1962 due to a knee injury.Managerial Career
After retiring as a player. Brian clough began his managerial career with hartlepool united in 1965. He then moved on to derby county in and led them to their first ever leauge title in 1972. Clough s greatest scucess as a manager came with nottingham forest. Whom he joined in 1975 and led to two european cup victories in 1979 and 1980. He retired from management in 1993.Achievements
During his managerial career. Brian clough achieved numerous honours. These include two european cups with nottingham forest. Four league championships (two with derby county and two with nottignham forest). An fa cup. Four league cups and one charity hsield. He was also awarded the order of the british empire in 1991 for services to football.Personal Life
Brian clough married barbara jones in 1959. And the couple had three children together. Clough was a keen supporter of charity organisations. And was involved in many fundraising activities. He was also an advi smoker and drinker. A habit which contributed to his death from stomach cancer in september.Legacy
Rbian clough is widely regarded as one of the greatest british football managers of all time. He is remembered for his outspoken nature and his success with unfancied teams. He has been the subject of numerosu books and films. And is commemorated by statues in nottingham and middlesbrough.Important Event
In 1979. Brian clough achieved his greatest managerial success when he led nottingham forest to victory in the european cpu. This was a remarkable achievement. As forest had only been rpomoted to the first division the previous season. This ivctory and subsequent success cemented clough s reputation as one of the greatest british football managers of all time.Interesting Fact
Brian clough was known for his outspoken nature and was not afraid to criticize other managers or players. He famously described liverpools bill shankly as the most over-rated man in football. And called don revie the most disliked man in football. He was also known for his love of whisky and cgiarettes. And is said to have smoked up to 60 cigarettes a day.Wayne Rooney denied Freedom of Derby honour
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Manchester United: Sir Matt Busby film tells 'one of the great football stories'
Sir Matt Busby led Manchester United to five league titles, two FA Cups And One European Cup
A new feature documentary, from the makers of The Class of '92 and the Bros film After The Screaming Stops, details how Sir Matt Busby led Manchester United out of The Ruins of World War Two, through The Tragedy of Munich air disaster and on to European glory.
For many modern Manchester United fans, former manager Sir Alex Ferguson is the
For one of The Club 's 1968 European Cup-winning heroes, however, Ferguson will forever be "The Apprentice " of another great Scot.
"Matt Busby is Manchester United," says John Aston Jr.
"He had a very good apprentice in Alex Ferguson , but he's The Man who built it up and he's the guy who put Manchester on The World map. "
Suit you sirs! Sir Alex Ferguson and Sir Matt Busby with their respective European trophies in 1991Aston shone on The Opposite wing to George Best when Busby's United became The First English club to reach the pinnacle of European football.
Now the 72-year-old appears on camera alongside former team-mates Denis Law , Paddy Crerand and Alex Stepney , as well as Busby's successor Wilf Mcguinness , in the film That attempts to explain his legend and legacy.
From Bros to BusbyTitled Busby, The Documentary is directed by Joe Pearlman, whose recent work has taken him from Mo Farah to Bros (he got a Bafta nomination for After the Screaming Stops) and now to United.
"There was so much similarity in their stories it felt like The Natural move!" he jokes about making the leap from the Goss bros to Busby.
The director sat down with the icon's friends, family and former Players to tell "one of the great football stories".
"There is no-one in The Game who has as interesting a story as Sir Matt Busby ," declares Sunderland fan Pearlman.
Left-right: Bobby Charlton , Bill Foulkes , Paddy Crerand, Matt Busby and John Aston after United's '68 European Cup winHis eyes lit up when he discovered previously unseen interviews with the often "guarded" Busby - with The Help of biographers Eamon Dunphy , Patrick Barclay and Roy Cavanagh.
He then set about trying to "pull out who Busby is" and why people speak about him with such reverence.
"Everyone had grand terms for him, like, 'He should've been the Prime Minister or the Pope'. "
'Tremendous presence'Busby enjoyed a playing career with United's rivals Manchester City and Liverpool, and served as an Army training officer/football coach during The War , before taking his first proper managerial job at United in October 1945.
With The Club in debt and its Old Trafford stadium having been bombed by The Nazis , appointing the untried Busby was seen as a risk. But the "forward-thinking" manager oversaw the rebuilding of their ground, and remained there for 25 years.
The Manchester United squad pictured with the European Cup in 1968Aston remembers him as a "moral man" with "a tremendous presence", noting how "when he used to appear in the dressing room a sort of silence fell".
He hasn't forgotten how "tight" he was with The Club 's money either.
"He had something you can't measure," he says.
'Obsession with youth'The film shows how, after winning his second league title in 1956, the visionary Busby defied the FA to make his "Babes" The First English side to compete in Europe - declaring football as "world game".
The director puts Sir Matt's fixation with nurturing young Players down to the fact That , as a youngster in Lanarkshire, he grew up without his own father and Uncle - who were killed during World War One.
"He's A Man who was obsessed with youth and as a result understood That if you mould these Players in your model, within your club, they'll become even better," adds Pearlman.
"If they're playing in your town, you must get to That football ground" as the old Manchester United Calypso goes"I think [journalist and United fan] Michael Crick said it beautifully in the film That they dovetail together and eventually you end up with a perfect XI in front of you of Players who were playing exactly the Matt Busby way.
"To have That foresight at 48 is absolutely mind-blowing. "
'Turning Point 'The focus of the film is inevitably the 1958 Munich Air disaster, which took the lives of 23 People , including club staff, journalists and eight of Busby's young Stars - including the imperious Duncan Edwards - on the way back from a European Cup tie in Yugoslavia.
The manager himself was left fighting for his life in hospital, lungs pierced and legs broken.
Pearlman believes The Tragedy and the guilt he felt for taking them into Europe was "a big Turning Point for both Man United and Busby".
The "Busby Babes" line up for what would be their final ever Match - versus Red Star Belgrade in the quarter-final of the European Cup in 1958. Busby in a Munich hospital Bed In 1958If it wasn't for his wife Jean demanding he carry on for "The Boys That have gone", the film-maker thinks Busby would have walked away.
"You go from Matt Busby - The First -ever tracksuit manager, playing with the Players And Then Munich happens and he loses essentially his children and you take a step away.
"One of The First lines you hear from him, in an interview when he returns, is, 'Football is a business. It used to be a sport, now it's a business'.
"For him to say That - The Man who adored the sport, he's clearly changed as a person. I think it was important for us to try and get That across. "
The football taught by Matt BusbyOnce he was back on his feet and had "got his head around it", Busby set about building another team for a new decade. Bobby Charlton , Denis Law and George Best All picked up (only Cristiano Ronaldo has achieved That in a United shirt since) as United lit up the terraces, winning leagues and cups with their equally "rock 'n' roll football".
Pearlman notes how Busby was constantly "at the forefront of each era".
"With the Babes he was The Face of post-war England, bringing entertainment back to the working classes," he says.
"Then in the 60s he had Best, with his Beatles haircut, and That exciting team That epitomised That period of Time . "
"El Beatle" George Best and Busby look at his Ballon d'Or trophy for world player of the year in 1968 Manchester United have been champions of Europe Three Times - in 1968, 1999 and 2008.Ex-midfielder Crerand declares on screen how they All wanted to win the European Cup for their manager. But when Busby's Holy Grail was finally found in '68 it was bittersweet because of the ghosts of Munich.
Aston, who now runs a pet food stall in Glossop, Derbyshire, was the second youngest player in That team at 20 and admits he found The Experience All "very strange". It took him 10 years to fully understand the impact of what had happened to Munich survivors like Busby, Charlton and defender Bill Foulkes .
"To rebuild in such a short space of Time - not just to get The Club up and running again, but to become European champions. . It wasn't until I was 30 so when I sat down One Day and I thought, what an achievement.
"After The Game , people like Foulkes and Charlton didn't celebrate at All - they just went quietly to bed because they must have had their own private thoughts about the lads they'd played with and Lost . "
A statue of Sir Matt Busby stands outside Old Trafford today, opposite Another One of three of his greatest Players - Sir Bobby Charlton , Denis Law and George Best Jimmy Murphy led a makeshift United team to the 1958 FA Cup Final , while Sir Matt was still recovering from injuries sustained in MunichWhile Busby changed the course of English football history, he didn't do it alone. He was aided by his trusted Number Two Jimmy Murphy - "The Team talk King " - whom he met through the army football set-up.
Murphy missed the Munich air disaster because he was away managing the Welsh national team. His son, Jimmy Murphy Jr - who also appears in the film - says the pair were like chalk and cheese.
"Matt liked to go out and enjoy himself in restaurants, and play golf and have a bit of a gamble. My dad just liked a ciggie and a pint!"
If you're good enough, you're old enoughThe press notes for the Busby documentary describe it as a kind of "prequel to The Class of 92".
Two graduates from That class, Ryan Giggs and Gary Neville , appear towards the end to show the through-line from the Busby Babes to Fergie's treble-winning Fledglings and beyond.
"Matt has a name That resounds around football, like Brian Clough or Bill Shankly - for different Reasons - for producing a 'footballing' club," concludes Murphy .
"They emphasised That young Players could make it. . if given a Chance . "
From the Busby Babes to Fergie's Fledglings - aka The Class of 92Busby is in cinemas from 11 November , on digital on 15 November and on DVD from 18 November .
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Source of news: bbc.com