I don't know if it selfish but that might help me if I am able to contribute to one or two kids having a better life. British Armed Forces & National Service". Britisharmedforces.org. Archived from the original on 2 August 2012 . Retrieved 11 July 2009. In August 2005, the stretch of the A52 linking Nottingham and Derby was renamed Brian Clough Way. [116] His widow Barbara expressed her gratitude to Nottingham City Council, saying: "Brian would have been amazed but genuinely appreciative". Since the opening of the Nottingham Express Transit system, tram No.215 has been named Brian Clough. [117] Derby County had been rooted in the Second Division for a decade before Clough's arrival, and had been outside the top flight for a further five years, their only major trophy being the FA Cup in 1946. Bob Wilson, in his early days as a BBC pundit, said the “bubble would burst”. It turned out the bubble was made of something more substantial than soap and water, but even when Forest won their first European Cup the team award in the 1979 BBC Sports Personality of the Year show went to the British show-jumpers (“four effing horses,” as Forest’s secretary, Ken Smales, was heard to exclaim).

Forest TV (31 December 2016). "Peter Taylor Leaves Nottingham Forest 1982". Archived from the original on 20 April 2020 . Retrieved 3 April 2018– via YouTube. Clough played as a striker for Middlesbrough and Sunderland, scoring 251 league goals in 274 matches; he remains one of the Football League's highest goalscorers. He won two England caps. He entered management after his playing career was ended by a serious injury at the age of 29. As a manager, Clough was closely associated with Peter Taylor, who served as his assistant manager at several clubs in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. He is also remembered for giving frequent radio and television interviews in which he made controversial remarks about players, other managers and the overall state of the game. The Partnership: Clough and Taylor". Thisisnottingham.co.uk. 30 March 2009. Archived from the original on 17 September 2012 . Retrieved 14 June 2012. While he talks to Nigel now, there was no reunion with his father. He came close once. At Burton Albion during Nigel's first spell there, but stopped himself. "It was totally my fault. I just bottled it at the last minute because I did not know what to say." A second Made in Derby walk of fame is on its way to city streets". Derbyshire Live. 14 May 2018 . Retrieved 21 May 2021.It was these sorts of frequent, outspoken comments – particularly against football's establishment, such as the FA and club directors, and figures in the game such as Matt Busby, Alan Hardaker, Alf Ramsey, Don Revie and Len Shipman, along with players such as Billy Bremner, Norman Hunter and Peter Lorimer – combined with Clough's increased media profile, that eventually led to his falling out with the Rams' chairman, Sam Longson, and the Derby County board of directors. Nottingham Forest FC 1980/81 uefa.com". Archived from the original on 5 December 2017 . Retrieved 3 April 2018. Nowadays, he says, the only true happiness he gets is from following Nigel Clough around the country, watching whichever team he’s managing. Now Nigel is at Mansfield, with Simon alongside him as chief scout. He doesn’t talk to the Cloughs when he goes to the matches; he doesn’t even tell them he is there. “Brian used to say, ‘You’re either loyal or you’re not’ and for a while I was not. The only way I can show him I’m loyal now is by following Nigel. I love any club he goes to. I immerse myself in it.”

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On it went. When Craig was 13, Clough invited the boys to stay with his family for a couple of days in Quarndon, a well-to-do village in Derbyshire. Clough realised the boys came from a struggling family, but he didn’t know the half of it. By the time they met him, they had been in and out of care much of their lives. Craig’s first memory of his biological father is him smashing a mirror over his mother, Gillian’s, head. After his parents split up, he had nothing more to do with him. When Aaron’s father, Jerry, moved in with Gillian, they brought Craig home from care and Jerry became his new dad. The family (Gillian had an older son and daughter from her first marriage) was dysfunctional in the extreme. Both parents were lawless and had served prison sentences. Jerry was artistic, troubled and physically abusive. He threw Gillian out of the bedroom window on one occasion, and broke her fingers on another. Jerry had been racially abused all his life, and ended up selling drugs and thieving to make a living. The boys were also racially abused – Aaron because he was mixed race, Craig because he was his white brother. Stafford-Bloor, Seb (15 August 2019). "An ode to Peter Taylor, a man who history has done a great disservice". Planet Football . Retrieved 8 September 2021. Woodward, Hamish (2 July 2021). "When Brian Clough Almost Took Charge of Wales". Atletifo Sports . Retrieved 8 July 2021. Or maybe it will come when he can see how the money raised from this book is helping others. Children just like him whose lives were transformed with an act of kindness. In his 1994 autobiography, Clough said Liverpool fans brought the Hillsborough tragedy on themselves – later compounding his comments on a TV chat show.