8 great Brian Clough Nottingham Forest stories

and start again a bit and Webby was in the England team and turned to me. I was doing my laces at the time and He came towards me, Harry, you know, his name was Harry because of his nickname. He said Harry Harry Harry honey in the second half, when you get the ball, give the ball to Neil Webb, he's a good midfielder . I remember having that

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feeling and by the way, Steve Hodge was an excellent player too, now we've heard that. from players and broadcasters who played and worked with Brian Clough now to an extraordinary story from a man who lived with Brian Clough for years Craig Bromfield, we met him when I think I was just shy of 12.

Aaron was 13 and a half and We had had a period where we were going to games in the North East, every time they showed up they would invite us to the hotel where we went to the games, so that happened over a very quick period, actually probably About 12 months passed. Four or five games we still tied Sunland and Newcastle and the cup, so we are very lucky on that side and then in October '85 we were invited on our first holiday with him to stay with his family in the house for an Over and Over Maybe, that happened over a period of two or three years and then in September of '88, when I was 15, just before I turned 16, I went to live with him, um, and your solid kept moving towards the excavations of players and stuff like that, but eventually He would come back after the games He would come back and stuff until I was 20. um, on and off for five years why why do you think why why why why did he do it?

I mean, I think because he was so cute, yeah, someone else would agree, but he knew the background we had when he was a kid. There was a point where we had reached a heart-to-heart friendly over Saint Andrews, which was just a spectacular memory and I would stay on the golf course. there for three days with the players in a mid-season friendly or just after the start of the season it wasn't preseason um and it was meant to leave me but leave me at home uh and I don't know why, but I exploded. He couldn't take any more of what was happening at home and for the first time I sat down and explained to him what I was going through.

Aaron had left to join the army. um and he just said look I'm not going to take that you know you can come and stay with us for a little while longer and then we'll work on something uh and the next day when I got home he sent I went out to walk the dog and I went out of the dog across the cricket pitch because he, Simon and Nigel were going to talk about what to do with me and after about five minutes he hadn't even made it to the end of the path. Robin and him.

He yelled back at me, he yelled rigor, come back, he used to call me Rigamortis because I never got out of his seat, he was very stiff, um, and after about five minutes, he just yelled at me, he said, no, don't bother taking the dog. I have decided that he can come live with us full time. Sorry. Can. I'm still not sure what you're going to do. You can work for our homework or play soccer. And I say, "Cheers, Brian." We will play football, thank you very much. It's an incredible story by Craig Bromfield. I put a link to his book that is written about the whole Down Below experience.

In the description I finally return to Mark Crossley, who talks about his debut and how Brian Clough followed those. The first few games brought him back to earth with a bang. I think coffee notices little things, little chinks in the armor where you're getting a little too big for your boots and after that game I was going home to see my parents and stuff and he said I said after the game I said see you with the rest of the lads have a good weekend everyone goes home he said I said I'm going home where is my house I said I live in Barnsley my house tomorrow morning at nine o'clock, bring your boots and it would be helpful if you brought your gloves too Sean, so I didn't know where he lived so I had to accuse the gardener.

I had to ask him if he would take me to his house. Sunday morning I don't know why I'm leaving since it's in Our Fate walks down the road at five to nine Barbara opens the door hello Mark how are you? I'm Barbara Brian's wife, well done. It was a pleasure meeting you yesterday, I'm glad you're doing very well and I came in and made you a cup of tea and toast and sat in the kitchen still having no idea why I'm there, he said Brian is upstairs. I'll be down in a couple of minutes anyway, come on in, he said, I won't call you, son, because Barbara's here, but I'd like to thank you, so I said what for now.

Simon at that time. Simon Clough's brother Nigel was now Chief. Scout with Nigel, wherever he works, was the manager of a team called AC Hunters in division five of the Derbyshire Sunday League and they didn't have a goalkeeper, so he said thanks son for agreeing to play for Simon's team this morning. I have a bouncer and I thought you would do it. I'm thinking about playing against Liverpool, Newcastle and Coventry and the next day I'm playing for AC Hunters in division five, the Dabbers Sunday League, long story short I'm playing. In that game, the standard is horrendous, the field has dogs and broken glass everywhere.

Archie Gagalo is obviously a family friend and a youth team coach at Forest is the linesman so I can't be mad about that. he's actually running up and down the line I'm planning on golf what's going on long story short we won that game quite comfortably and AC Hunter was fined £50 for playing a ringa and had his points taken away so I was the bell, but Cluffy took the £50 from my Forest wages to pay the fine, so I had to pay the fiver to play. It's like when I look back now and I go at that moment.

I thought what is this idiot doing to me, you know? When I look back now I go to our class, so good thanks to all the guests today on the channel. The links to all the full interviews, as I mentioned before, are below in the description, but they are an easy way if you want to check out Steve Hodge for example who is here now or Mark Crossley and I highly recommend that if you haven't seen it yet, the full interview is here.