From the next season mate, champions in 1978.A few months after that letter they won the European Cup.That's the season they won the league too isn't it? 1979
Won the European Cup 79,80 League 77/78 season.That's the season they won the league too isn't it? 1979
Edit. Actually they're already champions and about to win their first European Cup
Tweets further down that he was still injured and could not make it, he did however, make Madrid next season to see his team lift their second European Cup.1979 - I hope for his sake he did make it there!
Not everyone's cup of tea?A letter to an injured Grenadier Guard from the Nottingham Forest manager.
I know he was not everyone's cup of tea, but he deserves praise for this letter.
Yes, he was verging on Jimmy Greaves levels of goalscoring.I know it's not a like-for-like situation but I think Clough might have dug into his own life experience given the tone of the letter. As a young centre forward for his hometown team Middlesboro and then Sunderland he was one of the hottest and most prolific goalscorers of that time until serious injury struck ending his playing career. He picked himself up and went on to become, with drive and an extaordinary self belief, a manager at first Hartlepool Utd and the rest is history and an amazing trophy laden career.
I was thinking of some of the posters on here who have Leicester City or Notts County sympathies.....Not everyone's cup of tea?
If you never had much time for Cloughie, then I would put you on the 'needs watching step'.
A class gestureA letter to an injured Grenadier Guard from the Nottingham Forest manager.
I know he was not everyone's cup of tea, but he deserves praise for this letter.
Yes, I suspect there will be some, but perhaps they will have forgiven him by now.I was thinking of some of the posters on here who have Leicester City or Notts County sympathies.....
It's funny how folk can read thing differently.That's the type of thing a Guardsman would respond to positively. Mind you, he's in a Burns Unit in hospital. All the sympathy on civvy street might be trumped by "get up off your backside". Am sure Clough thought this one out before he sent it.
I agree - it wasn't meant to be denigrating and being a supporter he'd have known his team's manager.It's funny how folk can read thing differently.
My first thought was that the backside line was friendly supportive and not meant to be denigrating.
Mind you I heard a rumor that the Guardsman bunged Clough to write the letter and had to pay for the seat.
Joking
Wonderful letter from a great man.
Yes, I suspect there will be some, but perhaps they will have forgiven him by now.
Maybe not Leeds fans mind.
Is the book authored by John Lawson by any chance? I studied and then worked in Nottingham between 1971-1980 and I'm pretty sure he was the journalist who covered Forest for the Nottingham Evening Post. A good football writer and a decent guy by all accounts.I'm reading a biography about him written by a reporter for the Nottingham Post.
In it he tells how he used to ghost write a weekly column for Clough in the paper. After a couple of months Clough told him he had told the editor to pay him part of his fee and the reporter said it helped pay his mortgage off. He would take reporters out for lunch, pay the bill and give them the receipt to claim on expenses, also buy rounds of drinks for strangers in pubs.
Reporter didn't have a bad word to say about him
Clough might have been a lot of things and he certainly was a true Brit.A letter to an injured Grenadier Guard from the Nottingham Forest manager.
I know he was not everyone's cup of tea, but he deserves praise for this letter.
Duncan Hamilton covered them through Clough’s era, his book Provided You Don’t Kiss Me is excellent.Is the book authored by John Lawson by any chance? I studied and then worked in Nottingham between 1971-1980 and I'm pretty sure he was the journalist who covered Forest for the Nottingham Evening Post. A good football writer and a decent guy by all accounts.
I once worked with a woman whose daughter was Cloughie's Secretary and I can tell you that he was adored by everyone. He displayed many acts of kindness, not wanting or expecting anything in return, and was a genuinely caring man. I think he had a mischievous side to his character which he used to great effect but he was never a malicious man.
As someone who managed 2 modest clubs like Forest and Derby County to become Champions in the top flight in England, then brought 2 European Cups and a Super Cup back to Nottingham, he ranks amongst the greatest ever managers in my book. That said, his successes owed much to the contribution made by Peter Taylor, whose eye for a player was unsurpassed at the time.
Yes, I've read Duncan Hamilton's book and it is excellent. I know John Lawson was with the Evening Post and they published his book on the club's success in the 1979 season. He also authored a book about the Club's history.Duncan Hamilton covered them through Clough’s era, his book Provided You Don’t Kiss Me is excellent.
Didn't Jock Stein not sign a contract at Leeds?That might be more to do with Leeds at the time right enough. Whatever you think of BJK Stein, they had two of the greatest managers of their generation after Revie and both of them lasted less than 50 days! Tells me something. Like you, I thought pretty much everyone loved Cloughie, his love for the game, his extraordinary achievements, and how he entertained us with his one liners..."If God had meant football to be played in the air, he would have put the grass in the sky"...or something similar Genius