Brian Clough RIP
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- soda0
Can't say I liked him to be honest but for the football he created at forest, blimey, that team were great. In a proper sense of the word great, not in the way the media spray it around arsenal these days.
Two european cups man, when it was still a knock out competition.
And some of the football they played... awesome.
He was a genius, a flawed genius, but aren't they all?
- soda0
my favourite Cloughie quote:
"It's a cup tie, 10 minutes to go, Forest are down 1 - 0 and they've used all thier subs.
For once in his life Stuart "Psycho" Pearce comes off second best in a tackle.The physio sings out..He cant go back on,he doesent know who he is.
Cloughy....Tell him he's fucking Pele and put him up front."
- moth0
He was a genius, a flawed genius, but aren't they all?
soda
(sep 21 04, 02:58)
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Artists and Musicians can be a genius. So can scientists. I get tired of people in football being called that.Can we just they're talented?
- soda0
why?
- moth0
Why? Because it's Football. And everyone involved takes it far to seriously... which kind of kills it for me.
- dc_again0
the best cloughie story has to be the time he dropped martin o'neil to the reserves. he was furious so approached clough and said 'why am i playing in the seconds!?!?'. clough just looked at him and said 'because you're too good for the thirds'.
moth - there is a big difference between being passionate about something and taking something too seriously. it seems to me that it is *you* who takes it all too seriously.
- soda0
To some people football moves them more than design, art, music.
It's like when I watch a game with my wife and shout "What a ball!!!"
She want's to know why that ball is any better than another pass.... I can't explain, she doesn't get it.
You either feel it or you don't I guess.
- moth0
Seems kind of tragic.
I guess I don't feel it, or get it. I like to see a match if it's England.. and "important"... But all the stuff that goes with it.. It's embarrassing. Grown men crying in the pub when England loose... elevating players to this god-like status.. crying foul when they up sticks and move to another team to earn a £million more like they wouldn't...
It's wierd.. it's unnatural.
Anyway... I've said my bit..
- dc_again0
if, like me, you'd travelled down to southampton on sunday, to watch your team no doubt get beat again, like every time you've played there in the league for the past 32 bloody years, then you see your right-back power the ball into the goal from 35 yards, and you realise that - finally - you're going to win away at Southampton - then you'll understand.
- moth0
I'd rather bum around the house on a Sunday. Cook a roast, drink some beer, watch F1.
That's a real sport ;)
- soda0
F1
that explains it.....
- iLotion0
I'd imagine winning away to southampton would barely be enough to shake off the misery of being IN southampton to start with...
... Bloody Scummers
- uncle_helv0
"That lad 'e's a clown"
Cloughie commenting on the Polish goalkeeper who's saves prevented England from qualifying for the world cup.
- Hizzle0
can anyone translate for the colonies?
was he the Mike Ditka of European Football?
got any good stories that have helped elevate his to legendary status?
- Kuz0
He took a bullshit team of no hopers and helped them win lots of titles including the European cup - by bending the rules, with dirty fouling bastard players, and being very very jammy (lucky).
- dan100200z0
yeah, big respect to him for his contribution to football, wish him well in the skies above...
- karlo0
"There are 90 minutes in a game of Football and you can score in any of them".
God Bless Cloughie
If it wasnt for him we would always have been shit!
Up the Forest
Karlo
- Kuz0
Everything about that man got on my tits.
- de4k0
yeah you wouldn't want lunch with the arrogant sod but jeez he was entertaining form afar.
that game where the corwd invaded the pitch and he was just throwing haymakers at the fans!!
quality.