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The Partnership: Clough and Taylor". Thisisnottingham.co.uk. 30 March 2009. Archived from the original on 17 September 2012 . Retrieved 14 June 2012. But, their biggest success at Nottingham Forest came in 1979 and 1980 when they defeated Malmo and Hamburg, respectively, to win the European Cup. Clough and Taylor were the first managers to win the European Cup with an English club thanks to this incredible accomplishment. From 1978 to 1981, they also won the League Cup four times in a row. Promotion as champions was immediate in 1906–07. They were relegated a second time to the Second Division in 1911 and had to seek re-election in 1914 after finishing bottom of that tier. As World War I approached they were in serious financial trouble. The outbreak of the Great War along with the benevolence of the committee members mitigated the club going under. [1]

The 2010–11 season saw Forest, after a season of highs and lows, finish sixth place in championship table with 75 points, putting them into the play-offs for the fourt Forest defeated Sheffield Wednesday on penalties in the Football League Centenary Tournament final in April 1988 after drawing 0–0. [78] Forest finished third in the league in the 1987–88 season and reached the FA Cup semi-finals. Stuart Pearce won the first of his five successive selections for the PFA Team of the Year. UEFA.com. "UEFA Super Cup – 1980: Valencia profit from Felman's fortune". UEFA.com . Retrieved 3 April 2018. Forest lost only three of their first sixteen league games, the last of which was at Leeds United on 19 November 1977. They lost only one further game all season, an 11 March FA Cup sixth round defeat at West Bromwich Albion. [59] Forest won the 1977–78 Football League, seven points ahead of runners-up Liverpool. Forest became one of the few teams (and the most recent team to date) to win the First Division title the season after winning promotion from the Second Division. [nb 1] This made Clough the third of four managers to win the English league championship with two different clubs. [notes 1] Forest conceded just 24 goals in 42 league games. [60] They defeated Liverpool 1–0 in the 1978 Football League Cup Final replay, despite cup-tied Shilton, Gemmill and December signing David Needham not playing. [63] Chris Woods chalked up two clean sheets in the final covering Shilton's league cup absence. McGovern missed the replay through injury, and Burns lifted the trophy as the stand-in captain. Robertson's penalty was the only goal of the game. [53] [64] It ends on a poignant note. Taylor rejects the suggestion that he and Clough might ever work together again, but he softens at the prospect of reclaiming their friendship. “Life’s too short to say no to that…”

His job on the pitch, to paraphrase his future boss, was to get the ball and give it to someone who could play; that someone for much of his career being Boro’s brilliant inside-forward Wilf Mannion. “If you had to play against Jimmy every week you would never sleep at night,” said Bill Shankly of his fellow Scot.

Dugdale, John (28 November 2007). "The week in books". The Guardian. London . Retrieved 26 November 2012. Robertson was 22. By his own admission, he had fallen into a pattern of blaming others for his failings and he both deserved and needed Taylor’s intervention. By 1980, he had won the European Cup twice, providing the spiralling cross for Trevor Francis’ winner in Munich against Malmo, and scoring the only goal of the game when Forest beat Kevin Keegan’s Hamburg in the Bernabeu a year later. Robertson’s talent was rare, but it could very easily have been squandered. The men who made Brian Clough". Fourfourtwo.com. Archived from the original on 29 June 2012 . Retrieved 14 June 2012.Albert Park". Love Middlesbrough. Middlesbrough Council. Archived from the original on 24 June 2013 . Retrieved 19 August 2013. The bung culture that will tarnish football legend Clough for ever". Daily Mirror. 23 January 1998 . Retrieved 31 March 2012.

Clough was born on 21 March 1935 at 11 Valley Road, an inter-war council house in Grove Hill, Middlesbrough, North Riding of Yorkshire, [8] He was the sixth of nine children of a local sweet shop worker, later sugar boiler and then manager. The eldest, Elizabeth, died on 11 February 1927 [9] of septicaemia at the age of three. [10] 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 most well-appointed 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. [11] Maybe it was the constant sight of Mam, with eight children to look after, working from morning until night, working harder than you or I have ever worked."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 Hartlepools. He left surrounded by fascination and great celebrity: abrasive, infuriating, but plugged, immovably, into a vein of the nation." [31] Brighton & Hove Albion [ edit ] The Brian Clough Trophy". brianclough.com. Archived from the original on 17 November 2015 . Retrieved 1 January 2007. Football League Div 1 & 2 Leading Goalscorers 1947–92". RSSSF. 30 July 2020 . Retrieved 21 May 2021. When they were both playing for Middlesbrough FC in the middle of the 1950s, Brian Clough and Peter Taylor first crossed paths. Clough played as a striker, and Taylor as a winger. They bonded instantly and spent a lot of time talking about football, getting to know each other’s perspectives on the sport. Gordon died, after suffering from Alzheimer’s disease for two years, in 1996, and was described by an obituary in the Independent as “a man of unimpeachable integrity”. It’s tough to find anyone who would say otherwise.

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. However, by this point, Clough's relationship with chairman Sam Longson had deteriorated; he and Taylor resigned. 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 Matt Busby, Alan Hardaker, 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 the Rams' chairman, Sam Longson, and the Derby County board of directors. Frank Barlow (Assistant Manager) and Ian McParland (Forest's Reserve team coach) took over on a caretaker basis after Gary Megson's resignation. Barlow and McParland won their first game in charge with a 2–0 away victory at Port Vale. It was Forest's first away win since 27 August 2005 (which was 3–1 at Gillingham), their first double over another team in the season, and their first away clean sheet. Their second game ended with an outstanding 7–1 home win against Swindon Town, the first time Forest scored 7 goals in a League game for over a decade. Shennan, Paddy (25 March 2009). "Brian Clough DID see the light over Hillsborough – but it took him 12 years". Liverpool Echo. lost that loving feeling – Brian Clough, 1935–2004". Ltlf.co.uk. 21 March 1935. Archived from the original on 4 May 2006 . Retrieved 11 July 2009.Taylor was never a great orator, nor did he ever seem at ease with a camera in his face, but the line of questioning makes him so obviously uncomfortable. He plays the wobbliest of straight bats throughout, insisting that the two “had nothing to discuss”, before letting slip a darker comment about the distress caused to members of his family. Certainly, his repeated insistence that he felt no bitterness would have been more convincing had his face not twisted into a knot over the course of the interview. Chris Cordner (20 August 2022). "Cloughie's Hartlepool years remembered in a new book - and there's loads about life in the town in the 60s" . Retrieved 20 August 2023. Nikkah, Royah (7 March 2009). "The Damned United: Football manager Brian Clough's family to boycott film about his life". The Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 11 January 2022.