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Loading... Brian Clough: Nobody Ever Says Thank You: The Biographyby Jonathan Wilson
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Good book for the soccer fan, but tedious for the non- fan. Goes game by game through Clough's playing and managing career, which extends from the mid-fifties to the end of the century. I thought that Brian Clough was England's answer to Don Cherry, but Clough was more successful in his playing/managing career than Cherry ever was, but in terms of brashness and temperament are not so far apart. ( ) no reviews | add a review
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The final word on Brian Clough In this first full, critical biography, Jonathan Wilson draws an intimate and powerful portrait of one of England's greatest football managers, Brian Clough, and his right-hand man, Peter Taylor. It was in the unforgiving world of post-war football where their identities and reputations were made - a world where, as Clough and Taylor's mentor Harry Storer once said, 'Nobody ever says thank you.' Nonetheless, Clough brought the gleam of silverware to the depressed East Midlands of the 1970s. Initial triumph at Derby was followed by a sudden departure and a traumatic 44 days at Leeds. By the end of a frazzled 1974, Clough was set up for life financially, but also hardened to the realities of football. By the time he was at Forest, Clough's mask was almost permanently donned: a persona based on brashness and conflict. Drink fuelled the controversies and the colourful character; it heightened the razor-sharp wit and was a salve for the highs of football that never lasted long enough, and for the lows that inevitably followed. Wilson's account is the definitive portrait of this complex and enduring man. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)796.334092Arts & recreation Sports, games & entertainment Athletic and outdoor sports and games Ball sports Inflated ball driven by the foot Soccer, Association football standard subdivisions Biography And HistoryRatingAverage:
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