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After a short spell coaching the Sunderland youth team, in October 1965, Clough was offered the manager's job at Hartlepools United (from 1977 the club became known as Hartlepool United). He accepted and immediately asked Peter Taylor (then managing non-league Burton Albion) to join him as his assistant. At the age of 30, Clough was then the youngest manager in the league. Hartlepools were perennial strugglers and had repeatedly had to apply for re-election to the Football League, having finished in the bottom two of the Fourth Division five times in the past six seasons. Such was the club's perilous financial state in the 1965–66 season, Clough had to tour local pubs raising money to keep the club afloat and even applied for a coach driver's licence to drive the team to away matches. But, their biggest success at Nottingham Forest came in 1979 and 1980 when they defeated Malmo and Hamburg, respectively, to win the European Cup. Clough and Taylor were the first managers to win the European Cup with an English club thanks to this incredible accomplishment. From 1978 to 1981, they also won the League Cup four times in a row. Prentice, David (27 March 2009). "DAVID PRENTICE: Brian Clough was the greatest manager Everton never had". liverpoolecho . Retrieved 14 January 2019. They did not win another league match until mid-October, at which point they were bottom of the league. Forest spent most of the season bottom of the Premier League. Clough's final signing, striker Robert Rosario, arrived at the City Ground in March 1993, but failed to inspire a turnaround for his new club.

a b Taylor, Daniel (11 November 2015). "Signing 'a hooligan' and a Shankly team talk: how Clough set up Forest for title". The Guardian . Retrieved 3 April 2018. Barbara Clough, wife of late Nottingham Forest boss, died after fall in hospital's car park". Nottingham Post. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014 . Retrieved 11 July 2014. Forest defeated Sheffield Wednesday on penalties in the Football League Centenary Tournament final in April 1988 after drawing 0–0. [78] Forest finished third in the league in the 1987–88 season and reached the FA Cup semi-finals. Stuart Pearce won the first of his five successive selections for the PFA Team of the Year.In the erratic world of football management, their union was also exceptional in that it lasted for more than ten years. Together, they were able to accomplish so much due of their dedication to one another and to their common goal. On 27 April 1972, less than two weeks before taking Derby to the league title, Clough and Taylor had briefly resigned for a few hours to manage Coventry City before changing their minds after Longson offered them more money. the Anti-Nazi League 1977–1981". When we touched the sky. Archived from the original on 26 February 2009 . Retrieved 11 July 2009.

Clough’s information was that Burns drove around in a battered Vauxhall Viva with no MOT or insurance (“Not true,” Burns always insisted). A picture developed of an untamed, hard-drinking pub-brawler. Clough didn’t want someone bringing bad headlines to the club and was so opposed to the idea it caused friction between him and Taylor. “Forget it,” Clough said when Taylor came up with the idea. “I don’t want troublemakers, I don’t want shit-houses and I don’t want an ugly bastard like Kenny Burns littering my club.”On this day: Teddy Sheringham nets first televised Premier League goal – Sports Mole". amp.sportsmole.co.uk . Retrieved 3 April 2018. Nikkah, Royah (7 March 2009). "The Damned United: Football manager Brian Clough's family to boycott film about his life". The Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 11 January 2022. Nottingham Forest honoured him by renaming the City Ground's largest stand, the Executive Stand, the Brian Clough Stand. Clough was made an inaugural inductee of the English Football Hall of Fame in 2002 in recognition of his huge success and influence as a manager. In 1993, he was awarded the freedom of the city of Nottingham. [103] In 2003, the city of Derby followed suit. [104] He wrote a column for FourFourTwo magazine up until his death. Indeed, it’s rare to find anyone with a bad word to say about Gordon, although he had a reputation as a hard taskmaster (Frank Clark called him a “real old-style trainer”), whipping Clough’s players into physical shape before the manager could work on their brains. “Everything was spot on,” said former Middlesbrough winger Billy Day, quoted in Jonathan Wilson’s biography of Clough, Nobody Ever Says Thank You. “You could trust him with everything and what he said stood, with international players and everyone.”