Brian Clough
Football, Football player
1935 – 2004
Who was Brian Clough?
Brian Howard Clough, OBE was an English footballer and football manager.
As a player Clough was a prolific goalscorer with Middlesbrough and Sunderland, scoring 251 league goals from 274 starts. He also won two England caps, both in 1959. Clough retired from playing at the age of 29, after sustaining anterior cruciate ligament damage. He remains one of the Football League's highest goalscorers.
In 1965, Clough took the manager's job at Fourth Division Hartlepool United and appointed Peter Taylor as his assistant, the start of an enduring partnership that would bring them success at numerous clubs over the next two decades. In 1967 the duo moved on to Second Division Derby County. In 1968–69, Derby were promoted as Second Division champions. Three years later, Derby were 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, and he and Taylor resigned.
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- Born
- Mar 21, 1935
Middlesbrough - Also known as
- Brian Howard Clough
- Cloughie
- Old Big 'Ead
- Brian Howard Clough, OBE
- Spouses
- Barbara Clough
(1959/04/04 - 2004/09/20)
- Barbara Clough
- Children
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Lived in
- Middlesbrough
- Died
- Sep 20, 2004
Derby
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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