When Brian Clough got Mark Crossley to play for his sons Sunday League team

[@tarkimicaleff1547]

Not a Forest supporter, but I absolutely loved Brian Clough, the game isn't the same without him. RIP "young man"

[@COYBIG1967]

@John Smith that’s what he said he’s not a forest fan but he’s loved clough the legend

[@brumsgrub8633]

I am a birmingham fan, and when i was a kid we was playing forest, and we was outside the ground when the forest team arrived, and there was only a handful of people about and he made all the team sign everyone's program, we hadn't asked, and find particularly want the forest teams autographs. Proper character. Loved him.

[@jamesalandixon]

You have to be able to do the voice to tell a good Brian Clough story. Fair play to Crossley, that was quality:)

[@paulthrutner9114]

Jimmy Dixon 100%

[@buffalosowljah]

crossley and dean saunders stories are one of the best of cloughy.. both flawless voices of him . we so need managers these days to bring these egos back down to earth .im thinking part of the problem is the agents... cloughie hated the extras ..probablly why dean never signed for him

[@GetBenched2010]

Same is true with Bill Shankly stories!

[@richardhills2543]

He used to drink in a pub that I worked in back in the 80’s. One of the most remarkable men I ever had the privilege to meet. He used to call everyone ‘young man’!

[@terrythomas1329]

Even females? Thinking about it he probably did! RIP Mr Clough.

[@neil2905]

@@terrythomas1329 😁

[@pauljones235]

Joiners Arms ?

[@anthonykilgannon3443]

I can imagine that was an experience in a good way.i wouldn't know how to deal with him lol.

[@TheIkaraCult]

@@anthonykilgannon3443 Imagine having to tell Brian Clough "You've had enough!" Only Muhammad Ali could do that!

[@pearcegreatesteverleftback03]

THE GREATEST MANAGER EVER. BAR NONE. RIP SIR BRIAN CLOUGH. YOU WERE IN THE TOP ONE

[@philipcarthy2977]

Just brilliant, what's missing from the game today, a legend true and true,no frills with cloughie, legend

[@eddie12454]

Sadly missed. Loved Cloughy. And I'm a Notts County fan. What a character!

[@p28-e7j]

This is my favourite cloughie story. Crossley does a good impression. Shithouse 😂

[@danofficial117]

The funniest thing is that he took the £50 for the fine 😂😂😂

[@adzymalone4217]

Fuckin priceless

[@simonkevnorris]

@@adzymalone4217 Exactly :)

[@stephenneal9900]

Back in 1973 he gave me and me dad a lift in his white Mercedes from outside the midland hotel in Derby to the baseball ground for a Monday night game against Ipswich town. Absolute quality.

[@joanofarc708]

No heirs or graces with clough

[@emanresUcireneG]

@@joanofarc708 what about Nigel?

[@unclebensrice4702]

​@@emanresUcireneG ?

[@alanatwill3286]

Imagine this happening today..no character in the game anymore.

[@sratus]

The game's gone lads, the game's gone zzzzzz

[@oliveroliver8720]

Yeah....true.

[@oldskoolfool141]

Back then managers dealt with players, not through their agents, it's the agents that have killed it, there's no father/son relationship any more, teams used to be extended family, now the only thing a team has in common is the shirt, a shirt that USED to mean the world to a player, now it's just a functional item

[@samlowe872]

Imagine you winning an European cup in the modern day.... oh wait...

[@Javier23gol]

Players nowadays won’t play if it’s raining too much. Imagine going back to Sunday League to play a match.

[@craig7248]

This is one of the best football stories ever. What a bloke

[@Dontbeasheep33]

It’s only half the story edited really badly….listen to the full story of it…much much better….they left out loads of the best parts

[@totalsnitch]

@@Dontbeasheep33 where can i listen to it?

[@Dontbeasheep33]

@@totalsnitch search under the cosh mark crossley listen to first 15 mins

[@pauladventure7196]

Absolut feelgood story.....and Crossley is a fantastic storyteller....you can hear Clough....one of the best stories from football ever.

[@NH-bz9jv]

Absolute legend of a man, you are missed Mr Clough🙏🏻

[@Timekeeper1200]

Love hearing old Brian Clough stories

[@MichaelCook84]

I remember going to the forest training ground when I was a little boy with my grandpa and my autograph book. Stuart Pearce signed it then so did Steve chettle. Cloughie then shouted over "oi shithouse, go sign that lads book" I said "Sorry Mark I don't want your autograph, your not very good" They all thought it was hilarious. 😂

[@stevenguevara2184]

He is doing a great impression

[@robertpollock1986]

Absolute legend. Hope you're up in heaven running things cloughie boy

[@Ironsmiler]

'Where do you think you're flying off to, Shithouse? My cloud, two o'clock."

[@houndofuladh587]

The greatest manager ever. He made good and half decent player's into great teams. Nobody touches Cloughie

[@cyrilrogan4069]

What a bloody legend!!! Uuuu Redssss!!

[@keep_it_tidy56]

Absolutely priceless. On top of dog shit & broken glass Cloughie made him pay the fine for being a ringer in the team. How we miss the great man.

[@tonyallen9213]

It kept Crossley's and countless other potential young pros on the straight and narrow: stardom today potential failure to morrow if a new manager comes in and doesn't rate you.

[@footballcoachingbyeddie7929]

Haaahahaha I absolutely love stories about cloughie what a legend man proper old school

[@jonmilling703]

Crossley’s Cloughie impersonations are first class…tells a good story too

[@PaulintheUSSR]

Class! My favourite Cloughie story since the one in Stuart Pearce’s autobiography about Clough driving the team bus!

[@electronurd3234]

You need to get more stories like this from Mark Crossley brilliant story.

[@63Baggies]

He's a great story teller

[@stephenforster4756]

pure class great story love to hear more storys

[@kaykayco]

Wow amazing story!! Clough legend

[@garyrae5413]

Great story,what a character old Cloughie was...different days indeed.

[@godscountryrebel3115]

Well before my time but man's a legend 🤣🤣🤣 never be another character like cloughie .. ad love to see his views today on player power

[@fatbelly27]

Brilliant piece of management by clough. Will we ever see his like again?

[@troygrindley3793]

fatbelly27 no sadly, the game has gotten too serious in terms of players rights and such

[@danholliday5564]

This story and it's teller are fucking fantastic.

[@jonh6912]

"Dog shit, broken glass, you name it" I laughed hard at that 😂

[@daikayll1897]

Theres a generation who knew the genius in this sort of way. From the HEART. Not a fucking coaching manual. Warnock the closest you'll get today. The game NEEDS this confidence and know how.

[@ChuckieMcHaggis]

These are superb stories

[@manxpuss]

The game so misses Cloughie. So many brilliant stories like this. Best manager ever bar none.

[@louisjackson9220]

Happy birthday Mr Clough

[@Basin79]

Football is badly missing characters these days and there was no bigger one than Mr Clough.

[@TestTest-zk9cy]

Ace story....a total ledgend

[@TheBigD_]

That is absolutely brilliant!

[@swanseagunner2046]

Brian clough was the best manager there has ever been and ever will be nobody comes close it's not always about trophies he won plenty did clough i feel for his son nigel it must be hard to manager a club with your father being the best manager ever he has done alright has nigel

[@apathyintheuk265]

I think you'll find 'greatness' is measured in achievement. On that score Clough will be in the lower reaches of a 'top 20' of all time British club managers. If it's 'character' you're referring to then that title will have been retired when he passed away.

[@swanseagunner2046]

@@apathyintheuk265 with clubs he achieved greatest with is unheard of back to back European cups with Nottingham Forest league champions 4 League Cups he got derby up to division 1 champions from the bottom of division 2 in 3 years these were small clubs back then the only thing i can compare it to is Leicester City winning the premier league in 2016 clough done it in the 70s 80s no money im an arsenal fan clough was the best for me Peter Taylor needs a mention aswell his no2

[@apathyintheuk265]

@@swanseagunner2046 I think Peter Taylor deserves more than a "mention". I don't think it's any fluke Peter Taylor's absence coinciding with Forest's decline as far as titles were concerned. I get what you're saying about Clough - I'm old enough to remember him at his peak (Forest days) and you're right about the achievements at two unfashionable and not particularly rich clubs, add to that his unchallenged charisma - gets him elevated comfortably into the top 10 of all time greatest British club managers.

[@palnikolaiisnes7804]

Always nice to see someone completly clueless. Well done and crawl back to your cave.

[@PermanentMerka]

Amazing. I like his answer to how would he cope with quality Real Madrid had in European cup "I have a little fat man ...highly skilled who will turn them inside out" Talking about John Robertson but who would speak of a player is such glowing yet grounding terms as that says it all. It top 5 sporting figures who ever lived if you add talent and achievement to personality

[@daveliddle2043]

I am pretty sure I played against them in that game. Full time was 1-1 and they won 3-1 in extra time. Clougie and Gemmil on the touchline

[@orbitalforest]

Cloughie what an absolute legend !😂

[@tonyallen9213]

I can't call you shithouse, Barbara's here! Classic, comedy gold.

[@sidwhite7330]

What a character he was

[@brumsgrub8633]

That's brilliant,

[@anthonykilgannon3443]

I just love a Brian Clough story.i would have loved to have sat him down and find out how his mind works.notts forest are proud of him I bet.

[@positivemindpositivelife1580]

Funny f@#ing story. And Brian's voice aswell

[@oliverturner4076]

0:08 cracks me up 😂😂

[@StokieDave]

Fantastic impression as well. 🤣🤣

[@BroskiRIP]

Crossley's actual voice sounds like the Bo'Selecta guy impersonating Craig David.

[@britturk123]

And so the legend still carries on.

[@tonyska]

I could listen to Brian Clough stories all days. Anyone recommend a good book about him? There must have been so many written about him.

[@yeovil50]

So funny that I had to listen to it twice :)

[@D1Snr]

Those were the days when a football clubs were like the manager's own personal empire. Nowdays there are directors of football and CEO's who have more authority than the manager.

[@strawberrykicker2]

im not a soccer fan, but im a big fan of brian clough

[@Kraken54321]

Football *

[@strawberrykicker2]

@@Kraken54321 no I don't like American football either

[@Kraken54321]

@@strawberrykicker2 it's called football because it's played with the feet, the clues in the name.

[@strawberrykicker2]

@@Kraken54321 which of the 7 sports with football in the title are you referring to?I was very clearly talking about soccer

[@garryread3534]

Makes me laugh everytime listening to this ,

[@p28-e7j]

Killer story!!

[@mark211257]

Priceless 😂😂😂

[@petermendes5938]

Loved Cloughie and he should have been England Manager

[@dr.fabritziovanmong1956]

Cracking story

[@tayball5765]

Players on the other team when he walked up must have been like “is that Mark fucking Crossley?”

[@chrisyboy666]

This and the Neil razor Rudd were Amazing on under the cosh

[@rea9473]

All these Brian clough stories are top tier. What a man he must've been. I've only recently started getting to know more about who he was. I've heard his name muttered now and then but I can see why Roy Keane would put Brian clough above Ferguson, I rubbished it at first.

[@RickNickCity]

Love the fact he took the 50quid fine from his wages!!

[@TherymasterWidnes]

Brilliant

[@joanofarc708]

Best manager England never had

[@warrencrawfordart]

“You know that Frank Sinatra? He’s met me.”

[@Ironsmiler]

"Where do you think your going Shithouse?" 😂

[@computertechhelper]

Lol I thought the title said Brian coughing bringing you back down to earth

[@xJakeyBoy12x]

His accent is spot on!

[@seemysticsoul9339]

at least he got tea and toast

[@samlowe872]

Crazy to think I play for a division 5 Derbyshire league, could never imagine it happening in the modern day

[@johncronin1082]

Absolutely brilliant 🤣🤣🤣

[@kevinwilliams1421]

My mate was having a stripe in the bog in the toilet I shouted “oi shithouse”..he laughe£ so hard he dropped it

[@FozzQuaker]

I wont call you shithouse cause barbaras here :-D

[@fuzzy1237]

He was fucking brilliant

[@richardmullins1883]

They cut out the part where clough took his dog for a walk and calls "shithouse" while he was playing this game and he turns to give clough the thumbs up and they scored because he took his eye off the ball. He hears "shithouse" again and he turns to see clough giving him the wanker sign. 🤣🤣

[@NC2871926]

Belting story Browny! Churchy

[@matthewdorrington4348]

Thank was funny omg

[@londontoysfigures4160]

Great impression of Cloughie and great story, Shithouse

[@lynnebarkas6906]

😂 what a character.

[@chrissweeney8849]

Quality imagine some of the players today they would crying about bullying

[@bobbyshafto3259]

You couldn't make it up! L E G E N D !

[@Some-kid-called-David]

Of all the stories about the boss, you know that if he didn’t rate you, he wouldn’t pick you to play

[@JJONNYREPP]

When Brian Clough got Mark Crossley to play for his sons Sunday League team 1145am 8.6.23 some chappie just told me about this anecdote as he audited my home for the housing association... i suppose gettin a game's gettin a game...

[@kailashpatel1706]

One key question about Brian...would he have done better with England in 1982 at the World Cup than Greenwood..?

[@99dndd]

The most “Brian Clough” part of that story is that when he sits in a room, the dog gets up and goes to sit next to him.

[@Tokyomodeldetective]

😂 funny af

[@BestUserNameUK]

Shit'ouse.. Proper Northern😂

[@Barbarous_Wretch]

I wonder did he keep a clean sheet in the sunday match?

[@dazburnside7340]

Is mark any relation to Alan crossley?

[@markpalmer2988]

So did he concede a goal

[@craigbatleth]

Bring your boots and don't forget you fuckin gloves lol

[@fasthracing]

Classic

[@stantastic4866]

Imagine not asking what actually happened in the game.

[@kevob]

That out music at the end of your clips is horrible, it doesnt go with the flow of the clips or the content, I have to my mouse to cut it off before it kicks in.

[@nickyleighton3766]

Imagine today's prima donna Premier League players being picked for a local Sunday league team, they'd probably need counselling 🤣🤣🤣

[@pauljones235]

AC Hunters at the Race Course

[@pearljam619]

Players in the modern game are wrapped in cotton wool and bubble wrap. Managers can’t even raise their voice at players these days. Players sulk and moan, and play poorly in order to get a boss the sack if they aren’t getting their own way. Miss the characters and passion of my childhood football of the 80s/early 90s. And yes I’m a grumpy old fart, young man, now get your hands out of your pockets and tuck your shirt in! 🤪

[@NatalieUnsworth]

Love the story, but there's no way that Nigel was the manager of Burton Albion during this timeline. He would have still been a young player.

[@99dndd]

I’ve heard the longer version of the story. Nigel was Burton Albion manager and Simon was chief scout at the time the story was being told.

[@dotbluer9041]

e fookin tuk fifteh qwid owt me weiges