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Brian Clough

     Middlesbrough FC

2 appearances, 0 goals

P 2 W 0 D 1 L 1 F 3: A 4
25% successful

1957-59

captain: none
minutes played:
180

Timeline

  Brian Howard Clough OBE, MA
Birth 21 March 1935 in 11 Valley Road, Grove Hill, Middlesbrough, North Riding of Yorkshire [registered in Middlesbrough, North Riding, June 1935].
Marriage to Barbara B. Glasgow on 4 April 1959 [registered in Middlesbrough, June 1959]. Three children, Simon (1964), Nigel (1966) and Elizabeth (1967).
Death 20 September 2004 on Ward 30, Royal Derby City Hospital, Uttoxeter Road, Derby, aged 69 years 183 days [registered in Derby, September 2004] following a struggle with stomach cancer.
Biographies Clough: A Biography - Tony Francis (Stanley Paul, London 1987 revised 1989 & 1993).
His Way: The Brian Clough Story - Patrick Murphy
(Robson, London 1993).
Clough: The Autobiography - Brian Clough with John Sadler
(Partridge, London 1994).
Cloughie: Walking On Water: My Life - Brian Clough
(Headline, London 2004).

x. - A Football Compendium, Peter J. Seddon (1999).

Source

Douglas Lammings' An English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] &

Club Career

Club(s) Began with Great Broughton FC, South Bank FC and Billingham Synthonia FC, before being signed by Middlesbrough FC as an amateur in November 1951.  He signed Professional terms in May 1952 and scored 197 league goals in 213 league appearances, a record by an Englishman. Signed for Sunderland AFC in July 1961 for 45,000 pounds and scored a further 54 league goals in 61 league appearances.  Retiring through injury in November 1964, totalling 251 league goals in 274 league appearances.
Club honours None
Individual honours Football League (two appearances).
Distinctions One of only handful of players who have a road named after him.  Brian Clough Way is the A52, the main thoroughfare between Nottingham and Derby.
Height/Weight 5' 10", 11st 11lb. [1960]

Source

Douglas Lammings' An English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990].

Managerial Career

Club(s)
Hartlepools United FC from 1 October 1965 until his resignation on 1 May 1966; Derby County FC from 1 June 1967 until 15 October 1973; (For a brief period in April 1972, Clough had resigned from Derby to take over at Coventry City FC, but he changed his mind within hours). Brighton & Hove Albion FC from 1 November 1973 until  Leeds United AFC wanted him on 30 July 1974, he was sacked 44 days later on 2 September. Nottingham Forest FC offered him their vacancy on 6 January 1975, a job held until 8 May 1993; Appointed as part of Ron Greenwood's England set-up on 3 January 1978, where he was made the Youth manager, alongside Ken Burton. Forest had turned down an approach from the Sunderland AFC directors in October 1978, as they attempted to make Clough their manager in succession to Jimmy Adamson. In December 1985, The FA of Ireland were declined permission to interview Clough. He was then offered the job of manager of the Wales national team in 1987, but Forest, again, refused permission for Clough to speak to the Welsh FA. He won 594 league games in the 1319 he was in charge of (45%).
Club honours Football League Division Two winner 1968-69, Watney Cup winner 1970-71, Football League Champions 1971-72, 1977-78, FA Charity Shield runner-up 1974, winner 1978, Anglo-Scottish Cup winner 1976-77, Football League Cup winner 1977-78, 1978-79, 1988-89, 1989-90, runners-up 1979-80, 1991-92, European Cup winner 1978-79, 1979-80, European Super Cup winner 1979, runner-up 1980, World Club Championship runner-up 1980, Football League Full Members Cup winner 1988-89, 1991-92, FA Cup runner-up 1990-91;
Individual honours Manager of the Year 1978; PFA Merit Award 1992;
Distinctions Received an OBE 1991.

Source

Douglas Lammings' An English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990].

England Career

Player number One of five who became the 781st players (784) to appear for England.
Position(s) Forward
First match No. 335, 17 October 1959, Wales 1 England 1, a British Championship match at Ninian Park, Sloper Road, Cardiff, aged 24 years 210 days.
Last match No. 336, 28 October 1959, England 2 Sweden 3, a friendly match at Empire Stadium, Wembley, London, aged 24 years 221 days.
Major tournaments World Cup Finals 1958 (provisional);
British Championship 1959-60;
Team honours British Championship shared 1959-60;
Individual honours England U23 (two appearances, February 1957 & April 1958)
England B
(two appearances, two goals, 1957).
Distinctions Father of  England international Nigel Clough.

Beyond England

Clough's fame in football was only compounded by TV appearances, his forthright views expressed with a ring of complete honesty. Only ill-health ended his football career, announcing his retirement on 26 April 1993. Although he did consider applying for the vacant Wolverhampton Wanderers FC position in October 1995, but nothing materialised. - An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who. Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.68.


The Numbers
parties Apps comp. apps reserve minutes captain
2 2 1 two 180 0 one none
minutes are an approximation, due to the fact that many matches rarely stick to exactly ninety minutes long, allowing time for injuries and errors.
P W D L F A GD FTS CS FAv AAv Pts% W/L
2 0 1 1 3 4 -1 0 0 1.5 2 25 -1
Both matches were played in a white shirt

Venue & Competition Record

Venue & Competition P W D L F A GD FTS CS FAv AAv Pts% W/L
Home venue
Friendly match
1 0 0 1 2 3 -1 0 0 2.00 3.00 0.00 -1
Away venue
British Championship
1 0 1 0 1 1 =0 0 0 1.00 1.00 50.0 =0

Tournament Record

British Championship Competition
Type P W D L F A GD FTS CS FAv AAv Pts% W/L
BC 1959-60 1 0 1 0 1 1 =0 0 0 1.00 1.00 50.0 =0
BC All 1 0 1 0 1 1 =0 0 0 1.00 1.00 50.0 =0

All Competition
Type P W D L F A GD FTS CS FAv AAv Pts% W/L
BC 1 0 1 0 1 1 =0 0 0 1.00 1.00 50.0 =0
1 0 1 0 1 1 =0 0 0 1.00 1.00 50.0 =0

Age 21 B  
one appearance - Scotland 6 February 1957.
under 23  
one appearance - Scotland 26 February 1957.
 

 Club: Middlesbrough F.C. - two full appearances (180 min) manager: Walter Winterbottom - two full appearances (180 min)x

apps match pic match details comp res. rundown shirt

Age 22
312 8 May 1957 - England 5 Republic of Ireland 2, Empire Stadium, Wembley WCP HW standby
party member
   
B  
one appearance - Bulgaria May 1957; reserve - Romania & Czechoslovakia May 1957

 
Age 23 under 23  
one appearance - Wales April 1958
 
 
319 7 May 1958 - England 2 Portugal 1, Empire Stadium, Wembley Fr HW party member
320 11 May 1958 - Yugoslavia 5 England 0, Stadion JNA, Beograd
tour
AL
reserve
321 18 May 1958 - USSR 1 England 1, Lenin Stadium, Moskva AD
England's selectors announced their forty-man squad from whom the final 22 would be selected, on 22 April 1958. Of the 18 players who were cut from the squad on 28 May, they included Brian Clough.
  

Age 24
1 335 17 October 1959 - Wales 1 England 1
Ninian Park, Cardiff
BC AD   9

one of five who became the 781st player (784) to appear for England.
one of two who became the sixteenth Middlesbrough player to represent England

2 336 28 October 1959 - England 2 Sweden 3
Empire Stadium, Wembley
Fr HL 8 9
  


  

 
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