Brian Clough - The Middlesbrough Years

Here's something a bit different to the usual. Some cobbled together interviews with Brian Clough talking about his time at Middlesbrough.
Contributors include former team mates Alan Peacock and Billy Day, Brian Moore speaking to Cloughie on Valley Road and at Ayresome Park circa 1989-90 and some hapless interviewer at Boros ground some five years later. I think he just stopped short of asking BHC what his favourite colour was!

[@tommylawton6253]

Love how much Brian clough is loved throughout football and he’s from the BORO

[@davegadge1]

Parmo?

[@Aerojet01]

He was a complex character, with a simple way of looking at things. A one off. RIP Brian.

[@jpwartist]

I heard after the 6-6 draw with Charlton, Cloughie walked on the team bus and shouted "do you think if we score 7 next week we might f#!**ng win"

[@born2damn822]

classic🤣

[@chrisandrews9300]

Total legend one boro best ever strikers. Great manager also. Local hero never be forgotten. UTB

[@Preppygirl53f]

the brilliant Brian clough , from a toon fan, absolute legend

[@markirish7599]

Best wishes from Ireland to all my boro fans. UTB

[@darrendouglas3704]

What a man True Football fans recognise greatness & honesty You can't con 50.000 fans never mind millions .Forget day at Buck Palace having a brew with Queen and OBE medal What means more to Clough ,Shanks was fans & Terraces Knight Sir Brian Clough as working man's genius .Brian spoke with warm smirk & sparkle in his eye how Shanks has his utmost respect & loved him like a father .Well Sir take your seat at table off Football Masters ,Legends played Beautiful Football Busby Stein Shankly Clough with Taylor brewing up .Chatting football for eternity in dugout in the sky 4 Geniuses ,artists whose canvas was football pitch To be a fly on wall listening 4 masters who created Total Football long before Dutch RIP & Thank You Sir Brian Clough .

[@natureisallpowerful]

It just shows that it doesn't matter where you come from, you can make it.

[@leethistlethwaite4381]

Brian Clough RIP One Of Our Own Boro Legend

[@natureisallpowerful]

The best thing that came out of grove hill 👍

[@ste67]

What about Paul Rogers?

[@garyfinch7337]

A Boro boy, through and through. I still remember Reas ice cream at the top of Ayresome street, facing Albert Park. Anyone else?

[@anthonyhodgson7171]

I remember him like it was yesterday!

[@davidsphere]

Lived on Ayresome street in the early 80s and would pass it every day on my way to the Poly, Speak Easy and the infamous Boro Fish Bar!!! Being up in the Boro, in Cloughies neighbourhood was like a pilgrimage to Mecca ...DCFC! "C'mon you Rams!"

[@janty68]

Knickerbockerglories 😆

[@richardcoats6430]

Great manager great striker and very humble,Legend.

[@davegadge1]

Humble? Clough? Really?

[@richardcoats6430]

@@davegadge1 yes mate, you can be a straight talker,have confidence in your own abilities and still be humble.

[@davegadge1]

@@richardcoats6430 agree, but not for him, but that’s why I like him, and he’s a Boro boy, as am I! I bid you a good day!

[@nathanf1162]

Middlesbrough should still be in Yorkshire, it was different when the guy was born in the east riding, best manager in British football history I think more and more people vibing on this content give people the education about the acheivements of this man

[@antonyhobbs1144]

Cloughie GOAT

[@robbo03]

One of our own UTB

[@tonysoprano2912]

Legend 100%

[@UKRichardHK]

Do we know for sure Brian Clough actually grew up as a Boro fan? Did he ever go to watch them as a kid? I read his autobiography some years back and I don't think he ever said that. But it's hard to imagine he would have supported anyone else and maybe the poverty he grew up in meant he couldn't afford to go to matches?

[@johnboro64]

Chris Reas family cafe

[@witneywoo]

UTB

[@Smog104]

Aye soggy thru and thru

[@planetrockford]

With 2 brothers sharing Brian's bed it's just as well he couldn't get a girl, mucky pup 😀

[@seltaeb9691]

Clough always had a chip on his shoulders. It rankled him. Despite his clubs trophies he was a bully to players. Justin Fashanu should of been on his conscience but I doubt it. He wrecked this poor lad buying him on a whim & a great goal. Francis was worth a million & a track record. Young lad Fashanu was just beginning & Clough just cast him aside to Notts County for a fraction but the lad had been crushed by him.

[@vaughnwilliams1208]

Strange thing to write on "Clough - the Middlesbrough years". He worked wonders wherever he went. "Should HAVE been". #THICKIE

[@geoffboldison856]

Rubbish Clough was a legend said it how it was if you didn't like it tough proper Boro lad League titles at Derby Forest and European cups at middle of the road clubs no one will do that again RIP Brian

[@darrendouglas3704]

Total BS Think Stuart Pearce ,Roy Keane ,John Robertson ,Martin Oniel would say victims off a bully .Medals galore hey is happily be bullied if meant cabinet full medals Inc 2 BACK TO BACK EUROPEAN CUP MEDALS . I suppose Shankly ,Stein ,Busby were all bullies also,because in Clough he has part off them all As for Fashinu he was decent but by no means superior player Mark Crossley knows Clough & can't speak,highly enough nor can Keane & players from what I've read ,watched loved Brian Clough . Today's lot bully the managers Give me old school whack on chin managers any day .

[@BS15RED]

If you ever read Walking On Water , he admitted he got it wrong with Fashanu and how he deeply regretted it.