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My Take
Brian Clough is, to me, one of the most fascinating figures in football history, and the auto-tag calling him American made me laugh; he was English to his bones, a Middlesbrough man through and through. Winning the European Cup twice with Nottingham Forest, an unfashionable club, remains one of the sport's great miracles, and doing the league title with two different sides cements him among the all-time managers. What I love is the contradiction: brilliant, arrogant, funny, self-destructive, never given the England job he probably deserved. The OBE was earned. I genuinely wish I'd seen him work in his prime.
Overview
Brian Howard Clough ( KLUF; 21 March 1935 – 20 September 2004) was an English football player and manager, primarily known for his successes as a manager with Derby County and Nottingham Forest. He won the European Cup twice with Nottingham Forest and is one of four managers to have won the English league with two different clubs. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest managers of all time.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Brian Clough
- Name (Japanese)
- ブライアン・クラフ
- Reading
- ぶらいあん・くらふ
- Born
- March 21, 1935 – September 20, 2004
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Aries / Boar
- Origin
- Middlesbrough, United Kingdom
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 178 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- association football player / autobiographer / association football coach
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
Awards & achievements
- Officer of the Order of the British Empire
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.