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I'm thinking of opening the Brian Clough Academy of Management. It couldn't fail - they'd be queueing overnight.'

Football hooligans? Well there are 92 football club chairman for a start.'

What pleased me most about winning two European Cups was that when you win something once there's always someone who can say it was down to luck. Win summat twice and it shuts them up.

The cooker at the club was knackered. I nearly picked it for the bloody team because it was better than most of the squad.

Team talks? Quite often I'll just stick a ball there and tell 'em that's the tool of their trade and caress it and you'll be okay.

'Bugger me it's no wonder you lost the war.' (On being delayed for European Cup Final by Hamburg)

He was standing there with his back to me. It had a big number one on it and I told him there and then 'There's only one number one at this club and it isn't you. (To Peter Shilton)

I've dropped off to sleep long before Sven Goran Eriksson had finished droning on. There's more emotion in a dead reindeer

If a player had said to Bill Shankly 'I've got to speak to my agent' Bill would have hit him and I would have held him while he hit him

Everything that I've achieved or that has directed or affected mt life - apart from the drinking stemmed from my childhood. Maybe it was the constant sight of Mam, with 8 children to look after, from morning till night and working harder that you or I have ever worked

When I'm gone I want to be remembered as somebody who contributed good things to that great English game of ours.

They humiliated Mcgovern at Leeds but he had the last laugh when he lifted the European Cup twice

Sinatra sang ' Let's take it nice and easy' and he's right you know. But we don't. We dash around like mad buggers and it kills you in the end.

Most injuries these days are caused by players' money belts slipping

Peter Taylor always said 'When you get shot of me there won't be as much laughter in your life' and he was spot on. He did make me laugh a lot

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