Best ever quote from Brian Clough, was when a player asked him "Why am I in the 2nd Team" ?? Brian replied "Because we haven't got a 3rd Team" 😂🤣😆 Classic Cloughie 😆😄
Being a Nottingham lad I was lucky enough to get a trial with Forest back in the day. After the match, in which I thought I did fairly well, Cloughie came over to speak to me. This is it I thought, I've made an impression, I'm going to be a professional footballer. My dream has come true. Taking me aside Cloughie said 'Don't call us young man, we'll call you' The bubble was truly burst......
Leeds in the late 60s and early 70s were true class and should have won more. Football in the Leeds United era was not for the faint hearted and was X Rated!
The Leeds Utd players that Clough inherited were big-headed and poisonous... Giles, Bremner, Clarke, Hunter, Reaney, McQueen, Yorath, Jordan... the list was endless
I cant speak for the rest of them, but Giles is very highly thought of as a good person and a good footballer. I think there is some rose tinted glasses going on about the rules of the game and the pitches football was played on in those days. Even a gifted player like Paul Scholes who was excused as being somehow unable to tackle said himself you first had to fight for the right to play football. Giles and company were good players fighting for the right to play football on muddy swamps. The idea that 1970s English football was gentlemen trying to play tikka taka football but rudely interrupted by the barbarians from Leeds is wrong. Leeds were simply better at outfighting opponents to play football under the conditions that existed at that time. Clough, for all his genius, was simply badly wrong in trying to motivate the very successful Leeds players by diminishing their prior achievements. Maybe he was hoping to spark a positive reaction, but at the end of the day Clough only got a single win out of a team of players that made it to the final of the European Cup.
Yep he essentially said (to their faces) they were all hothead ego.. and they responded by refusing to play for him not the brightest sparks players eh?
No matter what you thought of the man, you have to say, he was a gifted manager, and he did not suffer fools gladly, He was my no 1 English manager of all time.And he didn't give a toss about being liked,
when i was about 8 or 9, i stood outside Goodison Park with my dad trying to get Everton players autographs, i got a few and then Nottingham Forest coach turned up, i said to my dad "shall i try to get Brian Cloughs autograph" ?. my dad said "well you can try, but ask him nicely" !....as he got off the coach i walked towards him, pen and book in hand, "can i have your autograph please Mr Clough"...............he looked at me, patted me on the head and said "not now dearie, i have to figure out a way of beating you lot"...........................absolutely pricelss !!
I will be honest on here, Don Revie the great man, who loved Leeds Utd and his players. Revie was going to be Manager of Everton, after the defeat by Sunderland in the FA Cup Final. He won the League the next year, and he was breaking up the team as they were getting to old, just like Bill Shankly did in 1970 when they were dumped out of the FA Cup by Watford. He was then offered the England Job, and took it. Clough arrived as was instantly disliked by the Leeds team, Revie promised Giles and Bremner to be joint manager, that was kicked into touch by the Board. Don Revie made damn sure Cloughie would be despised by Leeds Players, he had dropped a bomb in their dressing room with the ( Giles Bremner) promise he knew that would cause trouble, and if Don Revie loved Leeds why was he determined to piss off to Everton, and then to the England Job. it sounds to me ( Looking Back now ) that Mr Revie knew just like Shankly knew back in 1969, he would have to rebuild, Shankly did rebuild, and Don ran away. And Revies first England team had only 2 Leeds Players in it, Revie mugged those Leeds Players, he really did, and they fell for it, and sadly Cloughie took the brunt of all this, he wanted to win the First Division with Leeds but in a better way, Don Revie couldnt understand this. Whos the best, in my Opinion Reveie did a fantastic job at Leeds, no doubt about it, but Clough took a Derby team from the bottom of Division 2, to the top of Division One like a tornado. Then he did the same at Notts Forest, what an achievement and along with back to back European Cup wins. What a manager.
mostly spot on though revie brought leeds up from pits of second division like clough did with derby. Brian built two top teams out of nobody clubs. so is greater manager he messed up at leeds like. probably outsmarted himself with the continually disrespect of the team
@@andshits Perhaps Revie didn't want Clough to be a success at Leeds, and threw a spanner in the works. But just imagine Clough would have inherited a better group of players at Leeds, than he got at Derby and Forest. And look what he did with those teams. What might he have done with Leeds, they would eventually get relegated, and not be back in the Top League for a long time.
Maybe the best motivational manager of his day. Shame the FA didn't have the courage to try him as England manager because he wasn't in their perceived mold.
I loved your spelling of ‘mould’, that is ‘mold’. I realise that it’s the American equivalent but it seems to describe the English FA, as their thinking was at that time. Out of date, stagnant, like that toxic substance, Mold, that grows from dampness on inside walls.
Thank you Leeds United for not being able to take the criticism. It meant we got him at Forest. I mean, punching people on the pitch and just clobbering people instead of tackling... what did they think they were doing? The Leeds United of twenty odd years later who won the premiership but a very worthy team though.
@@imposs-up1hg very funny as well ...England's biggest loss not having him in charge of the national team ...he would of loved that job and gave everything for it ...
Clough should have been the Sunderland manager in the 70s and England manager in the 80s.The SAFC board should have got him when Bob Stokoe resigned in late 1976.
Yes true, the Euro final last year was lost because of political correctness, letting the 3 degrees take penalties just so they could say how justified BLM are, I notice the England woman's team is all Caucasians?
I've never understood why the Manchester United board never tried to get Cloughie. If memory serves, he said himself that he expected a call from United after Frank O'Farrell was sacked, but it wasn't to be.
In hindsight, is it probably easy to see that Clough was a far better manager than Revie ever was, To expect contemporaries to understand that, is rather unfair.
Alan Clarke was rather disingenuous there.. player power got Clough sacked from Leeds.. through disgruntled apathy shown on the pitch.. and by pouring poison into the ears of board members..
I met Brian at 0ld Trafford watching Clive Lloyd.
I said "Hi. I'm from Sunderland."
He replied "Great place to come from, young man."
Best ever quote from Brian Clough, was when a player asked him "Why am I in the 2nd Team" ?? Brian replied "Because we haven't got a 3rd Team" 😂🤣😆 Classic Cloughie 😆😄
Actuallly I believe the player was Martin O'Neil and Clough's reply was "because you're too good for the 3rd team".
That's brilliant 🤣🤣
He is missed. Well he is by me.
Rome wasn't built in a day. (But I wasn't on that particular job)
I may not be the best Manager in the world, but I'm definitely in the top one.
Being a Nottingham lad I was lucky enough to get a trial with Forest back in the day.
After the match, in which I thought I did fairly well, Cloughie came over to speak to me. This is it I thought, I've made an impression, I'm going to be a professional footballer. My dream has come true. Taking me aside Cloughie said
'Don't call us young man, we'll call you'
The bubble was truly burst......
The Greatest England manager England never had !
Can't believe these Leeds players defending their almost criminal behaviour on the pitch, one of the most vile teams ever to play in this country.
They where but.....
"And that looked very much like a right hook by Johnny Giles" what a line of commentary!
Leeds in the late 60s and early 70s were true class and should have won more. Football in the Leeds United era was not for the faint hearted and was X Rated!
rubbish watch the clips of just one of them peter lorimer world class
The Leeds Utd players that Clough inherited were big-headed and poisonous... Giles, Bremner, Clarke, Hunter, Reaney, McQueen, Yorath, Jordan... the list was endless
Greatest manager.
I cant speak for the rest of them, but Giles is very highly thought of as a good person and a good footballer. I think there is some rose tinted glasses going on about the rules of the game and the pitches football was played on in those days. Even a gifted player like Paul Scholes who was excused as being somehow unable to tackle said himself you first had to fight for the right to play football. Giles and company were good players fighting for the right to play football on muddy swamps. The idea that 1970s English football was gentlemen trying to play tikka taka football but rudely interrupted by the barbarians from Leeds is wrong. Leeds were simply better at outfighting opponents to play football under the conditions that existed at that time.
Clough, for all his genius, was simply badly wrong in trying to motivate the very successful Leeds players by diminishing their prior achievements. Maybe he was hoping to spark a positive reaction, but at the end of the day Clough only got a single win out of a team of players that made it to the final of the European Cup.
Cloughie, what a legend.
As a life long Leeds fan, I think Clough had the last laugh
He last interview on last day as Forrest boss will have any football man In tears..
Clough was 100% right about dirty Leeds. They would never finish a match with eleven men nowadays.
Lots of bulls
"Dirty Leeds" on and off the pitch in those days.How England loved it when Nottm Forest won the European Cup..twice!
Yep he essentially said (to their faces) they were all hothead ego.. and they responded by refusing to play for him
not the brightest sparks players eh?
They were awful. You cannot defend it. That is why Leeds and Don Revie are not looked at well.
@@npc3po301 He told them to throw their medals in the bin because they'd won them by cheating.
God make people like this again and not that weak ,football shit of today 🙂🙂🙂🙂⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️ Dublin ireland
Mr Clough the legend.
No matter what you thought of the man, you have to say, he was a gifted manager, and he did not suffer fools gladly, He was my no 1 English manager of all time.And he didn't give a toss about being liked,
when i was about 8 or 9, i stood outside Goodison Park with my dad trying to get Everton players autographs, i got a few and then Nottingham Forest coach turned up, i said to my dad "shall i try to get Brian Cloughs autograph" ?. my dad said "well you can try, but ask him nicely" !....as he got off the coach i walked towards him, pen and book in hand, "can i have your autograph please Mr Clough"...............he looked at me, patted me on the head and said "not now dearie, i have to figure out a way of beating you lot"...........................absolutely pricelss !!
I will be honest on here, Don Revie the great man, who loved Leeds Utd and his players.
Revie was going to be Manager of Everton, after the defeat by Sunderland in the FA Cup Final.
He won the League the next year, and he was breaking up the team as they were getting to old, just like Bill Shankly did in 1970 when they were dumped out of the FA Cup by Watford.
He was then offered the England Job, and took it.
Clough arrived as was instantly disliked by the Leeds team, Revie promised Giles and Bremner to be joint manager, that was kicked into touch by the Board.
Don Revie made damn sure Cloughie would be despised by Leeds Players, he had dropped a bomb in their dressing room with the ( Giles Bremner) promise he knew that would cause trouble, and if Don Revie loved Leeds why was he determined to piss off to Everton, and then to the England Job.
it sounds to me ( Looking Back now ) that Mr Revie knew just like Shankly knew back in 1969, he would have to rebuild, Shankly did rebuild, and Don ran away.
And Revies first England team had only 2 Leeds Players in it, Revie mugged those Leeds Players, he really did, and they fell for it, and sadly Cloughie took the brunt of all this, he wanted to win the First Division with Leeds but in a better way, Don Revie couldnt understand this.
Whos the best, in my Opinion Reveie did a fantastic job at Leeds, no doubt about it, but Clough took a Derby team from the bottom of Division 2, to the top of Division One like a tornado.
Then he did the same at Notts Forest, what an achievement and along with back to back European Cup wins.
What a manager.
Spot on
mostly spot on though revie brought leeds up from pits of second division like clough did with derby. Brian built two top teams out of nobody clubs. so is greater manager
he messed up at leeds like. probably outsmarted himself with the continually disrespect of the team
@@williamwallace7651 Spot on. but at leeds utd the players didnt like him full stop. Leeds there lost.
@@andshits Perhaps Revie didn't want Clough to be a success at Leeds, and threw a spanner in the works. But just imagine Clough would have inherited a better group of players at Leeds, than he got at Derby and Forest. And look what he did with those teams. What might he have done with Leeds, they would eventually get relegated, and not be back in the Top League for a long time.
"He had his ideas and his foibles, but he was a breath of fresh air to football" - Barry Davies
Maybe the best motivational manager of his day. Shame the FA didn't have the courage to try him as England manager because he wasn't in their perceived mold.
I loved your spelling of ‘mould’, that is ‘mold’. I realise that it’s the American equivalent but it seems to describe the English FA, as their thinking was at that time.
Out of date, stagnant, like that toxic substance, Mold, that grows from dampness on inside walls.
@@paulgerardhosty9909 Yes I'm from England originally but moved to the states in the late 80s....So I guess I'm a mongrel in-between both languages 🙃
Nice to see Mcgovern at the seaside, probably recovering from a near facial expression
To this day If Sir Brian had stayed at Derby , I'm sure we would have achieved what he did at Nottingham..
As I West Ham fan I agree In fact you would have been more successful as he didn't need to build another team
Brian Clough Legend.
Thank you Leeds United for not being able to take the criticism. It meant we got him at Forest. I mean, punching people on the pitch and just clobbering people instead of tackling... what did they think they were doing?
The Leeds United of twenty odd years later who won the premiership but a very worthy team though.
Dirty Leeds ..
Yes Leeds lost out.... Probably cost them European Glory....
Player power existed even then...
Genius. GOAT. But I detected a spot of Alan Partridge there.
Saw the damed,then had to look at the real thing.. regards Australia.. fantastic.
How id love to hear what he’d make of this pathetic woke world .
What does woke mean?
He'd be banned from telly as he was openly racist
He was a good card carrying socialist.
@@imposs-up1hg very funny as well ...England's biggest loss not having him in charge of the national team ...he would of loved that job and gave everything for it ...
Brian would be cancelled
Clough X2 League title Champions League winner, league cup winner
Leeds. Went down and didn't win the league for 20 years. You decide.
More fools Leeds. Clough knew exactly what was needed. Leeds needed rebuilding and he would have done it
This was REAL football not the over hyped premier league
"Shut up and show more football" How true here in 2022.
Indeed, Pride of Durham. My Mum grew up there, well Craghead if you know it. 👍
Clough should have been the Sunderland manager in the 70s and England manager in the 80s.The SAFC board should have got him when Bob Stokoe resigned in late 1976.
It’s a pity politicians nowadays don’t take a leaf out of Clough’s book and get a grip of todays overpaid interviewee’s e.g BBC breakfast !
Should have been England manger but the FA were shit scared of him because he was his own man.....
Yes true, the Euro final last year was lost because of political correctness, letting the 3 degrees take penalties just so they could say how justified BLM are, I notice the England woman's team is all Caucasians?
Cloughie was appointed to clean up “dirty Leeds” I believe the board were sick & tired of the reputation of being cheats.
God Bless Sir Brian....................football needs colourfull charactter SIR BRIAN WAS THE BEST !! Shut Mohammed ALI up FFS !!!
I've never understood why the Manchester United board never tried to get Cloughie. If memory serves, he said himself that he expected a call from United after Frank O'Farrell was sacked, but it wasn't to be.
He also said he would crawl back on his hands and knees to Roker Park to manage the club.
@@stevencummings6434 Obviously Chairman Cowie , wanted to divert Roker takings into his car business .
He should of played the Reserves and sold the lot of em, only one Brian Clough!! and he would of still won the league
In hindsight, is it probably easy to see that Clough was a far better manager than Revie ever was, To expect contemporaries to understand that, is rather unfair.
"young man" great
Saying what he thinks would get him a prison sentence nowadays, ... Pity
ESPECIALLY FOR INCORRECTLY BLAMING LFC FANS FOR WHAT HAPPENED AT HILLSBOROUGH!!!
@@rontrivett4146 .
But had the Liverpool fans not gatecrashed then the tragic deaths wouldn't have happened.
He was a lethal striker and good player but I suspect his gob held him back early on.
The FA never hired Brian Clough for the England job and many other football managers and club chairman knew why!
Wonder why in the video (7min 27 sec) they have a Joe Jordan track suit top hanging on the peg with the name spelt Joe JordOn. 🤔
Some of what the LU Team said of him was true and BC knew it too but apart from JM ( Jose ) there's been no one with BC charisma !!
And derby... went where after this?
Leeds United European Cup successes = 0
Brian Clough = 2
If only they’d listened.
Clough was right about Leeds though and clips showed that they were a dirty team.
They were vile. And Revie made them so. Cheating and corrupt. Match fixing was the tip of the iceberg. For all the hype, how much did they win?
At school whilst attending R E (religious education) we were taught to believe that “B C” meant Before Christ. I believe it meant Brian Clough ! 🤣
WHEN YOUR HAD A LOT TO DRINK YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR SAYING BUT COULD[NT CARE A F==K
5:51 Gratuitous pubic hair shot 😂
Brain clough was to good for a very small club like. Leeds
Was it that clough had personality or was it more a case everyone else didn't back then
got to think if the leeds players had actually listened to clough what a team that could have been …
UPTHEBORO!
Sam was a good man; he has been given a bad rep. He loved Derby. It was such a shame; Brian should have stayed, and he admitted as much.
Alan Clarke was rather disingenuous there.. player power got Clough sacked from Leeds.. through disgruntled apathy shown on the pitch.. and by pouring poison into the ears of board members..
Two BORO boys
They dint want him at international level, coulda started WW3.
The problem was he was ahead of his time, if he was around now it's normal especially the media stuff.
Longson was a dinosaur.
Alan Clarke comes out of this particularly badly. He went on to be a terrible manager as well and it's easy to see why !!!
Yes, and he was incredibly dirty for a forward. Not a nice man.
A right load of tosh said about Leeds.People have selective memories.
The Damned Utd is as real as Alice In Wonderland
The Damned Utd, yeah Captain Sensible played for them, who was their captain?
Couldnt stand the bloke. A drunk and a bully.
No one cares about your opinion.
Bollocks the guy was an absolute genius and Legend.
Leeds would have been
Greatest team with clothie
Revie shit manegey for England
Only played dirty game
🤣bell end
Its very rare to see someone on social media admitting they are a bully and a drunk. Well done !
They dint want him at international level, coulda started WW3.
They dint want him at international level, coulda started WW3.