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Taylor commented at the time that it had been a season of seasons and that he was mentally and physically drained. 186 days later Taylor was back in management flying solo when he returned to Derby County. Peter tried to persuade Clough to rejoin him but Brian didn't want to know. In January 1983 the inevitable happened when Forest drew Derby in the third round of the FA Cup. It became known as Clough V Taylor, Derby won the game 2-0 and Clough failed to shake Taylors hand at the final whistle, it was harder still as one of the Derby goals came from Archie Gemmill who Clough had recently sold to Derby believing him to be past it. It was a few weeks later when the John Robertson incident happened.

Robbo was approaching thirty and was after a 3 year contract at Forest, Clough was haggling when Taylor pounced offering Robbo all that he wanted welcoming Robertson to the Baseball Ground. Clough described Taylor as a rattlesnake and threatened to run him over on the A52. Taylor threatened to sue Clough over his outburst calling it 'poisonous, vicious, disgraceful' also adding for good measure 'Unfortunately this is the sort of thing I have come to expect from a person I now regard with great distaste.'

Two months later Clough and Taylor were sat at opposite ends of the Great Western Hotel in Paddington for the Football League Transfer tribunal where Derby were ordered to pay Forest £135.000 for their illegal approach of Robertson.

Taylor's time at Derby was to be ill fated as that following season they won only 11 League matches and got relegated back to the Second Division. Clough toasted their failure with a double whiskey according to Evening Post reporter Duncan Hamilton. Taylor resigned and surfaced every now and again to snipe at Clough in the local press.

Peter Taylor sadly died aged 62 whilst on holiday in Majorca, it had been seven years of silence between Clough and Taylor, when Clough heard of his old mates death, he immediately regretted not making things up with Peter and the years they spent at Forest remain evidence that Brian Clough and Peter Taylor were the greatest football double act ever seen.

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