A Brief History of Brian Clough at Derby County

A brief history of Brian Clough at Derby County.
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Everyone knows the story of how Brian Clough took Nottingham Forest from the lower reaches of the Second Division to European Champions. Films and books have been written, endless tales have been told and legends made about his successes in that half of the East Midlands. But not so widely told is how close he came to doing exactly the same in the other half.
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[@davidkerr7065]

'Rome wasn't built in a day...but I wasn't on that particular job'

[@MarkLsixtyseven]

Classic Cloughie

[@charlesthebrick5251]

David Kerr what a brilliant quote

[@joematthews4952]

Close, but still misquoted. It's "Rome wasn't built in a day....... But then again, I wasn't in that pertuculer job."

[@Kelly14UK]

Being a smartarse, there's a wee bit of a wtf here re Sheen playing Nero : p

[@Neater_profile]

Whatever does that mean.

[@marvmark5878]

Brian Clough is an absolute legend... he made a small club Derby champions of England and Nottingham Forest champions of Europe

[@maddog9138]

yes, being a derby fan, it gives me tingles every time i think about it

[@Ben-Crooks]

@@maddog9138 only if he stayed.

[@doggerlander]

Man was playing football manager in real life

[@nimascolari1508]

Championship manager on difficulty level high. I did it with tranmere rovers. But that was a computer game. Clough did it in real life 😂 God mode.

[@kylepepper4679]

I took Woking from the conference to the chamions league

[@iaindyson1374]

The Derby - Juventus game was influenced by a bribed official, no question about. The referee for the second leg was offered a car and £5000 if Juventus won. It was deemed to be done by a fixer ‘acting independently of the club’, even though the Juventus general manager had been involved in various attempts to bribe officials previously, including in an Inter vs Liverpool European Cup game from 1965.

[@jackmiller-johnston8689]

How anyone can hold Juventus in any form of regard after what that club has done in its history, is simply beyond me. Glad they were found out in 2005. A truly vile club with a past that should never be forgotten, let alone forgiven.

[@yeragin2601]

Iain Dyson Italian teams have always been guilty of match fixing look up Roma cheating Dundee United out of the European cup final and Milan laying down to Marseille in the 1993 final for some unknown reason

[@leedschampions6704]

AC Milan Leeds 1973 shocking. If anyone doesn't know about that final, read up about the ref.

[@edgarpanganiban9339]

What do you expect, I mean Mafia was from Italy for fvck sake. But then again their powers has limits, Juventus can't influence enough outside of Italy the reason they only have 2 European Cups lol...

[@user-dl1bs6lm1g]

Oh you kings of morality. The greatest achievement in English football history happened because of a ghost goal. Just stop crying.

[@shanewright2772]

It barely needs to be said, but Clough was a footballing wizard, a genius and the greatest manager who ever lived.

[@mjw28gaming]

Agreee to do this once could be a fluke, to do it twice is absolute magic from a pure genius

[@GarryLamb-y3m]

Yes Clough was very good. Bob Paisley was absolutely brilliant. Credit where Credit is due eh? Paisley has always been " The best manager "England never had. Paisley didn't want the Liverpool job and tried to talk Shankly out of leaving. I know that it's obviously only my opinion but I'm very confident that if Paisley had managed England then they definitely would have won the World Cup much more than once.

[@vapeoreon1525]

Ok two things, MacKay is pronounced Mac-eye and it’s the Isles of Scilly, off the coast of Cornwall, Sicily is a part of Italy

[@RickyMacHatton]

Spot on. Glad I’m not the only one who noticed it

[@TheCipheric]

Could you please make a video of the great man’s tactics too? There are tonnes of videos around about his excellence but none about his tactics ... please

[@tsvetelin6556]

such a good idea!

[@mschauhan3855]

@@tsvetelin6556 actually he didnt focus on tactics,before the match he told every player what they had to do

[@dzemilmehovic5271]

@@mschauhan3855 im pretty sure he did, but just did it in simplest way you could do it, which at the end is very hard to do. Peter Taylor said when they were young and everyone among footballers had nights out they were watching games and discussing tactics for hours

[@chrisrougue]

Films and books have been written about his time with Forest maybe, but the biggest and most successful film about Clough, The Damned United, focused primarily on his time at Derby before going to Leeds. Great video as always though

[@andywood3520]

The Damned United is about his infamous spell at Leeds

[@acceleratorpt4262]

can somebody tell me what film about Nottingham career, i only watched "Damned United" and a BBC documentary o Brian Clough

[@chrisrougue]

Andy Wood have you actually watched the film? The majority of it tells of his time as Derby manager prior to his appointment at Leeds.

[@StoutProper]

Leeds mate, hence the name. You're making city fans look bad. Are you a rag?

[@chrisrougue]

Guinness I’m really not making City fans look bad. Im not denying the fact that the film’s overlying story is about Clough’s disastrous spell at Leeds, as the most memorable and my favourite scene of the film is the recreation of his famous interview with Revie. But if you actually watch the film, and you’ll find a huge amount of the story is about Clough’s time at Derby before his stint at Leeds as an incredibly important backstory, covering his league win, the European semi final against Juventus, signing Dave Mackay etc.

[@stevenrose86]

My dad was born in 1960 and grew up a Derby fan. According to him the success at Forest was what really started the rivalry in the East Midlands. They won what should’ve been ours. FYI: Dave Mackay rhymes with eye

[@phantomstrangermedia]

stevenrose86 No the Rams & Forest were always deadly rivals. The unofficial team song is still “We Hate Nottingham Forest”.

[@paulmaksimovic2641]

Derby did win the league with Macay though - granted he benefited from the great work of Taylor and Clough

[@thomasdixon5573]

In 1974/75 it was Mackay's team not Clough and Taylor's.

[@steviecooper623]

No we won what you didn’t and it’s ours you didn’t deserve it

[@Kelly14UK]

" Somewhere, within a Derby boardroom, they must have wondered...what could have been ". Quote.

[@aammerahmed3866]

Kelly. The English FA should also wonder what if? Clough should have had the England job. Aammer.

[@Kelly14UK]

@@aammerahmed3866 Me and a neighbour were having this conversation dead recent. Coincidence or what.

[@thomaseley-kirk3285]

It was such a shame that he left. My grandad tells me stories of winning trophey and playing against the giants of europe but all I get to watch is Luton. Just what if he did stay like what could of come

[@76tomfowler]

02.45 The "Sicily" Isles? Eh?

[@illiteratethug3305]

Don't fuck around in the Scilly isles, you'll wake up with a hamster's head in your bed pal

[@gm2407]

@05:12 appointed dave mackay as forest manager. only other mistake in a good video.

[@farhanibrahim7919]

Clough > Mourinho & Guardiola

[@creative_soul-recolo]

Couldn't have said it any better in a time where football was about building winning teams instead of coaching ready-made teams. By the way, he had Peter Taylor who kept him agile and sharp. Wish I was born in that time 🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️

[@wvu05]

@@creative_soul-recolo Clough is the greatest, but Mourinho actually built a team in Porto. Guardiola is the one who never built anything.

[@creative_soul-recolo]

@@wvu05 can't disagree with you there. They were the underdogs of that CL campaign in 04 whem they won it by the way.

[@GCAbleism158]

Its one of the greatest partnerships in football management history

[@icydsting6037]

@@creative_soul-recolo both finalists were underdogs that year.

[@annescran2487]

*Starts a new derby football manager save*

[@sarang5686]

Here after watching "Damned United"

[@rbrys6377]

Oh I'm reading it atm

[@ryans756]

02:44 - Did you say the Sicily Isles? lol. It's pronounced "Silly" Isles. Sicily is somewhere different altogether. Near Italy. The Scilly Isles are near Cornwall. That's where Cloughie went, for the record. Had a nice coppa tea.

[@lewismacnab7248]

Best ever manager in English football.

[@billydolmen]

Please make video How Aguero play under Mancini, Pellegrini, and Pep since he has achieved all time City top scorer. Thanks!

[@aidenfrost10]

I can't believe that these teams that were once European contenders and winners are now not even in the prem...

[@natural_law]

Globalization

[@ivanschweizer9146]

@@natural_law not really, just a long time passed and different players managers and owners made the club worse. A lot of clubs won things throughout the decades and are now even lower than the championship

[@normanby100]

Although a fan of Revie's Leeds, I always liked watching Clough's Derby on Tv as they passed the ball around elegantly and precisely, especially Alan Hinton. Sam Longson would compound his almighty fuck up by sacking Mckay after he also won theleague.

[@matthewturner2803]

Seems like Longson didn't like winning league titles.

[@Red__Law]

Video on Sir Bobby Robons's success at Ipswich Town.

[@niyiiyanda6133]

could we get a video on Watford owners please, I've heard they are a bit controversial

[@DantieuS]

Wonderful Video! Clough and Taylor. Greatest Managerial partnership there has ever been in football! Please create a video on Middlesbrough's Legacy.

[@thechriswhewell]

The first 100 years won't be much.

[@arslaanaslam8537]

The role of patrick Vieira in the invincible season

[@harold5337]

Brian Clough was an excellent personality in the game. Love or hate his outspoken attitude and who it was aimed at, you could not ignore what he was saying, as he was so passionate and fun to listen to. RIP Brian

[@robbeadle9487]

Clough seen sense and wanted to manage the mighty nffc

[@isakpetterssonmusic]

Please do a video on Wolves tactics this season. Would love that! Sure I'm not the only one that would love that video 😉

[@jackmiller-johnston8689]

I'm fairly convinced that Derby would still be a super power today in English football and even Europe, had Clough and Taylor both stayed for a couple of decades. Liverpool wouldn't have become 5-time European champs, with County running the show throughout 70s and 80s like Man United did in the 90s and 2000s under Sir Alex. Not much worse in sport than seeing unfulfilled potential.

[@LPCLASSICAL]

Agreed - what a tragedy for the club. Instead he went to Forest, Derby's biggest local rivals - and made them champions of Europe twice. McKay had a great team in 74-76 but when the best players started to leave they declined. I had the misfortune of following them when they were in he doldrums 1980s - what a horrid decade for the club. Now isnt much better. But Leeds fans can be well pissed off too. With a guru like Clough you do as you are told and let him run the show.

[@jerrybaxter3060]

Derby won the league in 1975 as well

[@garthvader9916]

"Isles Of Sicily"? 🤦🤣 It's pronounced "silly", silly.

[@CaliRed1865]

Sicily? You sure it wasn't Scilly? Completely different. Pronounced different. Different countries. Everything different.

[@scottwhitley3392]

Pronounced Dave “Mackay” wrong as well, but still a good video

[@BigDave15]

A good striker for Middlesbrough and Sunderland too.

[@joaoatilio1011]

Definitely one of the best managers of all time.

[@ThomasWilliams89]

Greatest manager.

[@a.Hopeful]

It's not actually a 100% truth that Derby and Clough weren't covered in popular media and documentaries. In the movie "The Damned United", they did show large parts of Clough and Taylor's relationship during their success at Derby and Clough's subsequent failure at Leeds leading upto Forrest.

[@liamfitzgerald7217]

Keep in mind that a lot of that film is fictionalized and not to be taken too seriously. For example, in the film it makes Dave Mackay look like a traitor to Brian Clough by going from Derby footballer to Derby manager. In reality, he was gone from Derby for a while before becoming the manager there.

[@kaushikpunyamurthula285]

Amazing selection

[@joaoatilio1011]

He was treated unfairly at Leeds

[@PrinceOfCats5]

It nearly could have been for us under Dave MacKay a few years later as well. We won the league in 1974/75 and then beat Real Madrid in the first leg of our European Cup second round tie 4-1, including a hat-trick by Charlie George . We lost the second leg 5-1 and we never reached those heights again :(

[@nSackStyles]

Without Clough, it never would have happened and so didn't. - face it.

[@oldaccount792]

PrinceOfCats5. If dave Mackay had left it alone it would have been done

[@georginho36]

PrinceOfCats5 we will one day, we will...

[@LPCLASSICAL]

Even Dave McKay said R Madrid were brilliant in that 2nd leg - they played out of their skins. There was a dubious penalty but in the 1st leg Derby also had a gift from the ref. Their winner in extra time is one of the best goals I have ever seen.

[@thanasiskon8017]

What a f@@ing legend. Awesome video, keep it up.

[@Tifo]

+Thanasis Kon thanks thanasis!

[@watchdogs1328]

What John O Hare was to Brian Clough, Niko Kranjčar is to Harry Redknapp.

[@garycheshire900]

what about John McGovern?

[@utrapzab]

Ffs Dave Mackay is a legend, least you could do is pronounce his name properly

[@iokb]

Do a video about the rise, fall and the current rise of Luton Town

[@IlikeTrainsguy100]

I would love to see a video on Shrewsbury Town or Wolves this season. Or perhaps the downfall of Sunderland, Coventry or Birmingham.

[@Huzaifa1105]

Do a vedio on hero INDIAN SUPER LEAGUE or on Indian Footballs progress... Please

[@omarriadelhamshary7345]

Best football KZbin channel bar none. Please make a video diving into Clough's tactical approach to the game. Pls.

[@Foul_Quince]

Well, Derby did win another championship under Dave Mackay...

[@niyiiyanda6133]

great video guys

[@Tifo]

+Niyi Iyanda thanks Niyi!

[@matthewlewis-wilson2366]

There aren’t many teams in the 92 that have been champions of England more times than Derby (think it’s 10), but 2008 is now all we are remembered for. Such a shame how bad it’s been since the 2000. RIP Cloughie

[@isakpetterssonmusic]

Top 3 managers of all time.

[@MrBannystar]

Don't you mean the top one?

[@turtlecombover2493]

Amazing video again, big fan. I was wonder what software you use to animate and make your videos?

[@rwseries8452]

Dace McCay? It’s promised Mcye

[@A-R-17]

Could you make a video about Brian Clough's 44 days at Leeds please

[@GarryLamb-y3m]

I totally understand what Brian Clough said about the Italian ref issue. Liverpool, my team got exactly the same treatment after beating Inter Milan 3-1 at Anfield. Seems to me that some Italian teams and Spanish Teams " Real Madrid especially do very well under referees. Anybody else agree with me about this?

[@carrington8999]

Thanks Sam longson for accepting cloughies resignation 👍

[@we5t5id3gunn]

Could yous do one about Malcom Allison and Joe Mercer and City in the 60s/70s, and the fallout leading to the fall of Man City in the 80s/90s.

[@harryurz]

Yet under Dave Mackay Derby won the 1974-75 Division 1 title.

[@tvgcmma9215]

In 1962 European cup semi final jimmy greaves had 3 goals disallowed and one for offisde when 3 players in 6 years box when he was outside - he and others were adamant ref was corrupt derby screwed and Leeds v Milan the ref got banned for life but didn’t get the result over turned

[@dgw1970]

You pronounce McCay wrong. Phonetically it is MAK EYE

[@uyuman1]

3:43 and that was the last time Juventus influenced referees in a match.

[@SteveThePster]

Worth noting tho that Derby did still manage to win the title again, without Clough. Think it was 74-75?

[@nilecrocodileRobyn]

First-rate video.

[@sunnyyasser5625]

anyone read the book "The Damned United"?

[@y.a.46]

Love this channel.💓

[@Tifo]

+Huey Freeman ❤

[@isakpetterssonmusic]

Huey Freeman same

[@hassanhaidi6804]

Poor derby letting this guy walk

[@unitedroad438]

this story sounds like sir alex ferguson when he was st mirren manager

[@djangobutthedisforyou647]

Is it only me or idk but the opening music sounded like pornhubs intro

[@garethhook9972]

Why would a chairman be so bitty,

[@williamdoughty3742]

Brief history of anzhi

[@EpicAbousen]

One of the most interesting videos on the channel, absolutely brilliant

[@Tifo]

Appreciate that my friend!

[@Mlaargaar]

I love my daily dosage of uMaxit! Thanks once again guys!

[@Tifo]

+MrJordanowen love the support!

[@georginho36]

MrJordanowen *cough, cough* you mean tifo?

[@jimk9635]

Do one on Bill Nicholson please

[@goburr1649]

you butcher names on this channel fr

[@SammyBlanny]

Fuckin Sicily isles my dude, fuckin Scilly

[@protestanttillidie1907]

If Brian Clough was alive and Had Been Derby Manager in derbys 2007/2008 Premier League, Season Derby Would Have Won The League.

[@circle2867]

i very much doubt it

[@willbenson6264]

I just feel like I should remove 7/8 out of my life just gona put it in this vault, full of cringe memories, and done

[@GeorgeChoy]

Scilly isles is pronounced "silly"

[@chriscornish1341]

It’s Scilly Isles, not Sicily Isles.

[@Kotikjeff]

Dave Mackay. Scilly Isles. A few spelling mistakes also. Apart from that quite interesting. But anyone who knows anything about the great Brian Clough knows about Derby County.

[@EP_1990]

Highly recommend watching "Damned United". Great movie.

[@chandlerbingbong]

Cloughie could of won major honours if he hadn't retired after leaving Derby.

[@MorganJackson-ev1dg]

Come on you 🐏!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@tsigalko_]

hi guys my video has an error, there was no mention of marcelo bielsa anywhere. please fix

[@johnwalsh7806]

What happened at Leeds matey?

[@FaDegaming1100]

No body cares about derby.

[@BasefordNFFC]

It will be brief as well

[@acceleratorpt4262]

make a video of Béla Guttmann, please it's the best after this wonderful video of Brian Clough. BTW, i think if Mr.Longson dindt accepted the resignation, the team could create a Dinasty like LIverpool had in the 70's , and we proved in earlys 80's with 2 UEFA European Champions Cup by Nottingham Forest. and i sugested one video of Eusébio, too

[@mahirrughani2485]

Title fight between Liverpool, Leeds, and Manchester City. That’s a bad season to hear about.

[@andrewharing2637]

How can you possibly not know how to pronounce Dave Mackay's name? Wait. You just said "The Siciliy Isles". Don't worry about it.

[@jamessim1858]

I just wished this top notch manager took charge of Scotland he would have been a revelation as he always relied on Scottish players for example the great Dave McKay John O Hare Kenny Burns the great John Robertson Frank Gray John McGovern and many more he was the best of all English managers.

[@garethhook9972]

Was the Brain clough the best manager ever? Or Alex Ferguson? Or someone else

[@normanby100]

Derby finished 4th in their first season back in the top flight.

[@FactCheckingCuz]

Do one on how Ian Holloway took relegation favorites blackpool who hadn’t been in the top flight since 1971 to the premier league

[@MrAdmvp]

Back when a manager's job was more that just opening a wallet

[@ryanlaird6447]

I am not demeaning clough by any means however he only won the league cup after Taylor left but that was mainly through unfortunate circumstances

[@Eleazar73]

I understand that the film had some historical inaccuracies, but JFC, it was so well done.

[@willtimmins6127]

Sicily and the Isles of Scilly are two very different places.

[@mango4ttwo635]

Dave Mackay. it's pronounced Ma Kie, not Ma Kay

[@williamthompson2941]

do you have to prove the Italians were bribing refs every single time back then?

[@grimekitty3381]

You mispronounced isles of Scilly??

[@andybt3989]

Good video but Mackay not pronounced correctly!

[@normanby100]

Clough and hisfamily holidayed in the Sillie isles.

[@jamesalandixon]

You need to learn how to say Dave Mackay's name.