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BRIAN CLOUGH STORIES...GOT TO LOVE THEM!

Fri Sep 22, 2017 1:00 pm

Courtesy of Dean Sanders and TalkSPORT :thumbright: :lol: :lol:

https://youtu.be/l31H01-Icgk

Re: BRIAN CLOUGH STORIES...GOT TO LOVE THEM!

Fri Sep 22, 2017 1:08 pm

Brian Clough seemed to have a great one-liner ready for every occasion. Here are some of the best...

"Manchester United in Brazil? I hope they all get bloody diarrhoea" - on Manchester United opting-out of the FA Cup to play in the World Club Championship.


"I can't even spell spaghetti never mind talk Italian. How could I tell an Italian to get the ball - he might grab mine" - on the influx of foreign players.


"I bet their dressing room will smell of garlic rather than liniment over the next few months" - on the number of French players at Arsenal.


"I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one" - looking back on his managerial career.


On Eric Cantona's infamous kung fu kick at a fan: "I'd have cut his balls off."


"If he'd been English or Swedish, he'd have walked the England job" - on Martin O'Neill.


"I only ever hit Roy the once. He got up so I couldn't have hit him very hard" - on dealing with Roy Keane.


"Walk on water? I know most people out there will be saying that instead of walking on it, I should have taken more of it with my drinks. They are absolutely right" - a typically candid reflection on his drink problem.


"Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes" England's exit from Euro 2000, explained the Cloughie way.


"We talk about it for twenty minutes and then we decide I was right" - on dealing with a player who disagrees.


"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" - on not getting the England manager's job.


Guessing who nominated him for a knighthood: "I thought it was my next door neighbour, because I think she felt that if I got something like that, I'd have to move."


"For all his horses, knighthoods and championships, he hasn't got two of what I've got. And I don't mean balls!" Referring to Sir Alex Ferguson's failure to win two successive European Cups.


Brian wasn't a fan of the women's game: "I like my women to be feminine, not sliding into tackles and covered in mud."


After a life-saving operation, Clough gets sentimental: "Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive."


On how he would like to be remembered: "I want no epitaphs of profound history and all that type of thing. I contributed - I would hope they would say that, and I would hope somebody liked me" :ayatollah: :notworthy:

Re: BRIAN CLOUGH STORIES...GOT TO LOVE THEM!

Fri Sep 22, 2017 1:43 pm

Absolutely brilliant, I remember many moons ago Nottingham forest went 42 games unbeaten and we went up there and beat them!

Re: BRIAN CLOUGH STORIES...GOT TO LOVE THEM!

Fri Sep 22, 2017 1:45 pm

Sven wrote:Courtesy of Dean Sanders and TalkSPORT :thumbright: :lol: :lol:

https://youtu.be/l31H01-Icgk



Chris,

Brian Clough, My favourite all time manager :thumbright: :thumbright:

Re: BRIAN CLOUGH STORIES...GOT TO LOVE THEM!

Fri Sep 22, 2017 1:49 pm

Annis, mine too :thumbup:

Re: BRIAN CLOUGH STORIES...GOT TO LOVE THEM!

Fri Sep 22, 2017 1:49 pm

Forever Blue wrote:
Sven wrote:Courtesy of Dean Sanders and TalkSPORT :thumbright: :lol: :lol:

https://youtu.be/l31H01-Icgk



Chris,

Brian Clough, My favourite all time manager :thumbright: :thumbright:


Me too, Annis :ayatollah:

Neil Warnock is a similar character and comes out with some 'tongue-in-cheek' beauts! :thumbright: :lol: :lol:

Re: BRIAN CLOUGH STORIES...GOT TO LOVE THEM!

Fri Sep 22, 2017 1:54 pm

Igovernor wrote:Annis, mine too :thumbup:


His achievements, brilliant, out spoken second to none :lol: :thumbright:

England were frightened to give him the job as manager.

Re: BRIAN CLOUGH STORIES...GOT TO LOVE THEM!

Fri Sep 22, 2017 1:55 pm

Sven wrote:
Forever Blue wrote:
Sven wrote:Courtesy of Dean Sanders and TalkSPORT :thumbright: :lol: :lol:

https://youtu.be/l31H01-Icgk



Chris,

Brian Clough, My favourite all time manager :thumbright: :thumbright:


Me too, Annis :ayatollah:

Neil Warnock is a similar character and comes out with some 'tongue-in-cheek' beauts! :thumbright: :lol: :lol:


Chris, very similar :lol: :thumbright: :bluebird:

Re: BRIAN CLOUGH STORIES...GOT TO LOVE THEM!

Fri Sep 22, 2017 2:10 pm

He'd put some of these politically correct do-gooders in their place if he was still with us. Never one to pull any punches.

Re: BRIAN CLOUGH STORIES...GOT TO LOVE THEM!

Fri Sep 22, 2017 6:02 pm

Trevor Francis told that he was beginning to think he'd made a mistake signing for Forest, as he'd been there two weeks, and Clough hadn't said a word to him.

Then on the Friday, Clough says 'You're playing tomorrow son, you're in the team. All I want you to do is to give the ball to John Robertson, he's a much better player than you are'.

Re: BRIAN CLOUGH STORIES...GOT TO LOVE THEM!

Fri Sep 22, 2017 6:22 pm

I once saw Duncan Mackenzie giving an after dinner speech.

Mackenzie recalled the time when he signed for Leeds just after Clough took over in the summer of 1974. Leeds had won the league the season before and Liverpool had won the FA Cup Final and they were due to play each other in the charity shield at Wembley. Mackenzie said that he went up to Clough and asked for some complimentary tickets for his parents. Mackenzie then put on a Brian Clough accent when giving Clough's reply; " Young man, if your own parents won't pay to see you play at Wembley, who the bloody hell will !!'"

Classic Clough and the room erupted in laughter.....

Re: BRIAN CLOUGH STORIES...GOT TO LOVE THEM!

Fri Sep 22, 2017 6:29 pm

Sven wrote:Courtesy of Dean Sanders and TalkSPORT :thumbright: :lol: :lol:

https://youtu.be/l31H01-Icgk

Clough opened the swimming pool at Cwmbran stadium.
Swam a couple of lengths then charged the council 300 quid for a taxi home.

I also read somewhere that the dean saunders story is fake news :bluescarf: :bluescarf: :bluescarf: :bluebird: :bluebird: :bluebird: :bluebird: