Great talkSPORT Brian Clough Story: Man Management

[@jeffallinson8089]

You genuinely couldn't make this stuff up. Absolutely unreal. This is why Cloughie is still sadly missed, he was an irreplaceable one off; a true legend and brilliant manager to boot.

[@CalizpzZ0]

I mean he literally made it up

[@gaywest4298]

Saunders is full of BS unfortunately. He's was well known for being a joker in his playing days.

[@crazy4arsenal53]

Shows the amount of control he had over his dressing room that his captain of all people was prepared to mend an iron just to ensure he got picked. Absloutely class 😂

[@AH-be6bu]

Psycho said in his autobiography that Cloughie brought him both a broken iron and a kettle for him to fix. He initially advised him that it would be a lot cheaper for him to simply replace them but Cloughie then accused him of being a fraud 😂

[@tiarnan76]

legend - and a good football story for once

[@zombievikinggaming4258]

@@AH-be6bu Mad man

[@mrgreentyres6061]

A H q

[@Izzy_Breezy458]

Different world back then...try with today's millionaire footballers

[@Ping50505]

Brilliant man . Met him many times as his son owned a paper shop in west bridgford and the great man often sat on a chair in the shop chatting to whoever came into the shop .

[@TheIkaraCult]

Ive never heard a Clough story that wasnt absolutely insane and wonderful

[@radiusone216]

Check out the Undr The Cosh podcast with Mark Crossley the Nottingham Forest keeper. Might be one of the greatest stories Ive heard from a footballer and definitely one of the best Clough stories

[@PaulHanney]

@@radiusone216 That podcast had me in tears. Mark Crossley does a good impression of Cloughie/

[@npg68]

@@PaulHanney I think it's mandatory to imitate his voice when telling one of his stories lol :-)

[@rizandro]

Clough is like the Bob Mortimer of football.

[@63Baggies]

@Commander In Chief Embellished sure, but BS? Really?

[@firsteerr]

my favorite clough quote is , when asked how he deals with player disagreements he said "well we go into my office and discuss it for twenty minutes and decide i was right "!

[@stevegordon2032]

Every story you hear about Clough. Every confrontation he has with people supposedly more “superior” to him. Every mindset he has with players, coaches, owners, proves to me he was a man of incredible intelligence, wisdom and outstanding management of people skills. A legend undoubtedly. Loyal, yes. An enemy……no thank you!

[@chrismartin1231]

Oh! my god. I just love Brain Clough. Don't care if he was rude or whatever crap some nincompoops say about him, he is a legend and a genius. Love and respect from Assam, India.

[@chrismartin1231]

@Ocean Drive Lol! You know about our tea. Yep it is

[@ja-ks8dh]

The greatest

[@buffalosowljah]

now theres a word not used much .. *nincompoops* luv it 😂🤣.. yes cloghie was summet else.. old skool all the way can you imagine if he was around today OMG ..one of the best is bringing players back down to earth and playing sunday league footy .. oh and fixing broken irons 😂🤣

[@brendanharding6699]

Oh god I miss Cloughie so much and I'm a utd fan - one of the greatest characters in our game ever 😂

[@geegee8625]

Bill shankly was that man

[@martm216]

Well said. I'm a Southampton fan, for my sins, and feel absolutely the same.

[@pauladventure7196]

The fact is that people older than fifty in Norway tells Clough-stories.......true legend..

[@forestfanjr]

What a legend, I am to young to witness what he did first hand but I am so thankful for what he did for our club

[@1969JohnnyM]

A great manager, what he did at a club of Forest's size was amazing and you certainly don't get characters like that in football today, he had more personality in his little toe than modern managers do today.

[@eddie12454]

He was some character, no doubt about it. I admired what he and Peter Taylor did for putting Nottingham on the map big time regarding football. And I am a Notts County Fan. You are missed Cloughy.

[@craigbailey79]

What a manager pure class

[@chrisbarlow2131]

If poor old Cloughie tried that today with the spoiled brat brigade, they would have stormed out the moment he mentioned they were a fraud, saying "Speak to my agent. I don't play for you I play for myself. I want a transfer. It says in my contract I can go. You've broken me mentally and I will be asking for compensation. You've also cheapened my image and therefore my image rights will now suffer and the value of the shares of my naff fashion clothes empire will take a tumble for which I will also be seeking compensation". In the real world Stuart Pearce produced a screwdriver and replaced Cloughies fuse to his wife's iron, ensuring he still played on Saturday! I know which world I prefer.

[@briandoyle6188]

Mark crossley has loads of cloughie stories and he's spot on with the voice.... imagine what a GRT England manager cloughie would of been...gutted...but what a character..

[@pearcegreatesteverleftback03]

The Greatest Ever Left Back learning a life lesson from the Greatest Ever Manager #LEGENDS #GREATEST

[@goodlife6145]

What's missing from today's football, and today's society in general, is the kind of genius, humour and personality that Brian Clough had.

[@martm216]

Well said.

[@larmoran4885]

Really down the rabbit hole with Brian Clough stories. Would make for a good book.

[@pwdplastering2120]

"Provided you dont kiss me" is an awesome book from a local journalist who dealt with Cloughie on a day to day basis

[@Abc-yt3el]

I believe in miracles is a good film about Clough and Taylors exploits at Forest

[@salamander981]

Superb. But Stuart Pearce got the gist of the Cloughie chat and fixed the iron and presented it to the Gaffer.Today`s players would have had a tantrum and walked out. That`s why managers like Clough and players like Pearce are gone forever. The Premier League has created that situation and football is the poorer for it.

[@branshatch6862]

Summed up perfectly mate. I would take a lesser standard of football if it meant that their were more characters about. It’s all just so sanitized nowadays, and I’m on only 32!

[@moneysandhu4183]

@stephen stewart lol 🤣😂🤣🏳️🏳️🏳️ so true

[@J.Tower11]

Bang on point, mate. Cheers.

[@foreverred105]

@Rees Jones It wasn't Stuart Pearce talking young man

[@adriancryan6840]

I couldn't agree with you more. Brilliant comment.

[@iangrubb6470]

If he was alive and managing today that iron would have been thrown at someone and rightly so. He believed in good honest football just like Bill Nicholson. Very few managers like him today. I'm a Spurs fan but admire his honesty and beliefs in how the game should be played. If a player got sent off he didn't argue about it. If a player had a bad game he was dropped the next game. Modern day players wouldn't last 5 minutes if they played under Bill Nic and Cloughie.

[@athlone1975]

Am I right in thinking if a player got booked Clough would drop him for the next game? No characters in the game like Clough now. He was a once off. A genius. His sides always played good football. A man of high principles. Didn't always live up to them himself mind but then we are all human and his intentions were good.

[@James-Campbell]

Dean Saunders Brian Clough impression is flawless, it's as if you've got the real deal in the studio!

[@buffalosowljah]

dean saunders apparently is a serial footy impressionist.. can do a john barnsy *isatonic* version .. mark crossley does a good one of cloughie as well

[@tonnaboy10]

Mark Crossley is much better at it

[@ja-ks8dh]

These are the things missing in football at the moment. The void left by Brian Clough will never ever be filled

[@DeccyJ]

Oi Talksport can we have more of these visual stories please, they're literally THE BEST things ever

[@only1icon1801]

Love these Clough stories, really make my day

[@mkram2154]

Brian Clough should have a Prime Minister. He would have every leader in the world confused, terrified and laughing at the same time while making UK the richest country in the world.

[@adambrandist2233]

I miss clough, never be another like him,

[@dodgedandle8311]

Growing up from a kid through late 70s into 80s and into 90s, It’s Hard to take in a Way ,that Brian Clough is no longer with us ..He really was a Genius, a complete one of a kind, the way he would Read people and situations and react was what made him GREAT . The fact that he new football inside and out didn’t even come into, that was just a given.. Would he be able to do it today with players and the way the game is ? Who knows, But I think he would have done what he done in any era regardless because no chairman could bye Brian Cloughs inbuilt Wisdom you’ve either got it or you’ve not, and he had buckets of it 🌞⭐️🌞⭐️

[@registame2878]

I love hearing about this guy

[@muhammadwijaya6555]

To say that the world is a poorer place without him is a gross understatement.

[@tonkajjz109]

Brian clough would have got England the world Cup if he'd been given the opportunity to manage the England team

[@bobbyshafto3259]

Great manager Cloughie (with oodles of character).Pure comedy.

[@Andysw6]

Cloughie really is ‘the special one’.

[@stavrosrabchencko5479]

Love him or hate him which I did you couldn't deny his class, they don't make managers like that no more

[@andresilva5547]

What a bloke clough was 😂

[@lscott4074]

@Kevin Davies nowhere near fergy

[@lscott4074]

@Kevin Davies fergie made united the powerhouse of the club they are and kept them at the top clough 2 champions league wins were some achievement but he only one league title in 17 years

[@lscott4074]

@Kevin Davies teams never had that much money back then fergy build a team from 11th to the powerhouse united are today clough was great but one league title in 17 years over fergys 13 title wins? Cmon

[@lscott4074]

@Kevin Davies fergie was still consistent after their first league win in 93' clough never reach them heights again after the late 70s

[@lscott4074]

@Kevin Davies still nowhere near fergies 13 clough was great but forest declined during the 80s fergie build an dominant force for over 20 years

[@jch2211]

Legend sadly missed.

[@henguspod3899]

the one and only mr brian clough

[@cyrilrogan4069]

Cloughie was one "Smooth" operator!!!

[@Ayah_Mia]

Sh*thouse 😂😂😂.. That's how Cloughie loved to adressed Crossley 😂😂😂.. Absolutely legend.

[@PaulSmith-td1xm]

What a man 👏👏👏👏

[@Abc-yt3el]

Get watching I Believe In Miracles. Its class

[@BillyBronco73]

An absolute legend of a manager. What Dean Saunders achieved at Doncaster was amazing.

[@scottinbristol]

Dean Saunders is a fucking gossiping prick. Tells stories of Clough crawling round his front room and garden drunk.... Keep it to yourself.

[@andygeorgiou7753]

Thats a proper manager

[@daikayll1897]

And well done Stuart Pearce for joining in. And all other players too. You just know the halfwitted,humourless,special ones that coaches, who'm are AFRAID of these youngsters by the way, would'nt have a fucking clue why they should toe the line. Warnock is the closest we've got today. Clough, genius.

[@pearcegreatesteverleftback03]

SIR BRIAN CLOUGH. GREATEST MANAGER EVER. BAR NONE. STUART PEARCE. ENGLAND'S GREATEST EVER LEFT BACK. BAR NONE FOOTBALL LEGENDS

[@johnnyhammer]

@adam smith Neither of which has anything to do with not being the best at what you do.

[@bloggersnffc6942]

He was pure class u reddds

[@Ben-dk6su]

The man was a genius

[@jesuspobre88]

Did he realise what a legend he was while he was still with us?

[@pillarsofdoom4891]

Wonderful story

[@daikayll1897]

Oh, yeah, lets not forget Peter Taylor too. Player knowledge that he'd of brought to Engerland selection.

[@briangriffin928]

"I'm not saying I'm the best manager in the first division but I'm in the top 1"

[@robertwilliamson8711]

Brilliant anecdotes

[@Betterthantelly]

Great story great Man.

[@Taporeee]

Stuart Pearce: IronMan

[@thomasbonner8464]

Could you imagine how Clough would have dealt with Kepa if he refused to be substituted?

[@stueyh1118]

He wouldn't have had to mate. Kepa wouldn't have dared even try that with Clough.

[@finlaymcnally213]

He’d launch the iron at his head

[@davidb5173]

He wouldn't have dared in the first place, and if he had actually done it, he'd never have played for Clough again. Same with Fergie, same with all great managers.

[@teamblitz1990]

How modern day football needs a character like Brian Clough.

[@hotrodd29]

Explains why Nottingham Forrest ended up in trouble towards the end of Cloughs time. As he got older and his drinking problems worsened. He lost touch with reality and his judgement became impaired. Clough in his prime greatest English manager ever.

[@Johnbryan0]

What a man

[@jamesrevell1]

😂 He was one of a kind.

[@MadeByHenryDesigns]

Good impression

[@shingerz]

fantastic sounds a right character 👍

[@RioBow]

The moral of the story is. He fixed the iron Hahahah

[@toldyabro2786]

Saunders Clough impressions are great lol

[@mihailsnesterovics4626]

Football was genuine back in the days

[@leeweller5664]

Nobody could live with that Forest team in the snow.

[@stones8484]

What u mean in the snow? They where better in winter period?

[@leeweller5664]

Mats,They used to play in the snow with a red ball in them days and Forest always seemed to adapt to the conditions better.

[@ewanmacfarlane9195]

I love that in the days when they never cancelled games cos of snow just theres 30 thousand people out there heres an orange ball get on with it.

[@nobodymanjustme2402]

Brilliant 👏👏👏👏

[@CRAIGT1971]

We miss men like this in football. So funny.

[@theaussieburwoodboy9943]

How times have changed.......very sad.

[@DylanFowler]

The People's Manager.

[@martm216]

Just thought, what if Pearce HAD been dropped for the Saturday match? Fans want to know why? Answer: 'Well, in actual fact, he failed to fix my Barbara's iron. He's a fraud!' Love it!

[@alanp.thompson]

What a classic clough stories lol

[@ja-ks8dh]

Cloughie started 90% of his conversations with "young man...."

[@shahedmc9656]

Legend

[@Karl_with_a_K]

They don't make 'em like that anymore. How he never got the England job I'll never know.

[@kieranpugh5342]

Fuckin brilliant

[@olanrichards5468]

Todays players would be complaining about their mental health, as opposed to just bloody fixing the iron

[@HPLovecraftsCat87]

Talksport is literally UKIP

[@terrybowler7215]

Can u imagine cloughie stirring up the drama queens of the premiership today

[@rickyraw5457]

What a character....

[@anthonykey9706]

Top story

[@stievboyo636]

Stuart Pearce is a qualified electrician so no problem fixing a iron could probably rewired his house by Saturday

[@martm216]

Only Cloughie could come up with that. Genius or would-be smart-ass not as clever as he thinks he is? I'd go for genius.

[@40ny]

When they talk about iron discipline, this is what they mean!

[@davidmaddison7780]

Now young man I want a flat back shirt for a wide man ,so roll your sleeves up and I’m paying u buttons for it ..

[@Marctunstall]

Can someone explain the whole towel and football

[@brapmanbrap5188]

Cloughie genius

[@paulself8698]

Great story telling by, I think, Dean Saunders.

[@Marctunstall]

Can someone explain the thats when we play with the ball on the floor

[@smartiepancake]

You'd've thought the iron joke would've been in the press.

[@willis475]

D Bruce is this a joke ?

[@smartiepancake]

@@willis475 I was being ironic

[@willis475]

Ahahah you’ve don’t it again

[@CS-mo7xp]

I'm in creases...

[@neilrafferty2097]

Different times . Sadly

[@Isleofskye]

Ruled with an Iron Fist.....

[@ewanmacfarlane9195]

I dont understand why he put the towel on the floor and kicked the ball off it.

[@Marcelg13]

omg such a funny story 😂

[@larryburke4782]

Is this Dean Saunders again ??? Pearce England debut came in close season in the rous cup against Brazil midweek and he played against Scotland on Saturday after

[@andredutoit9645]

Forest = Clough + Pearce.

[@Trickiestree]

What more can you say? Brian Clough

[@thecallawaykid1763]

Dean Saunders great story teller, not sure as a manager (Wrexham fan)

[@sratus]

or a pundit

[@timboland7767]

So he fixes the cable ?

[@thejannerofplymouth3654]

Funny as fuck ... the dean Saunders story is funny aswell

[@wroot1]

Don't quite understand why he did it

[@thelolguy007]

And when you think about today’s players 🤦‍♂️