Brian Clough
Clough as Nottingham Forest manager in 1980
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Brian Howard Clough | ||
| Date of birth | 21 March 1935 | ||
| Place of birth | Middlesbrough, North Riding of Yorkshire, England | ||
| Date of death | 20 September 2004 (aged 69) | ||
| Place of death | Derby, Derbyshire, England | ||
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1951–1953 | Middlesbrough | ||
| 1953–1955 | Billingham Synthonia | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1955–1961 | Middlesbrough | 213 | (197) |
| 1961–1964 | Sunderland | 61 | (54) |
| Total | 274 | (251) | |
| National team | |||
| 1957–1958 | England U23 | 3 | (1) |
| 1957 | England B | 1 | (1) |
| 1959 | England | 2 | (0) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1965–1967 | Hartlepools United | ||
| 1967–1973 | Derby County | ||
| 1973–1974 | Brighton & Hove Albion | ||
| 1974 | Leeds United | ||
| 1975–1993 | Nottingham Forest | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Brian Howard Clough, OBE (/ˈklʌf/ KLUF; 21 March 1935 – 20 September 2004) was an English football player and manager.
As a striker Clough was a prolific goalscorer with Middlesbrough and Sunderland, scoring 251 league goals from 274 starts, making him the 3rd most prolific player in the league with a conversion rate of 91.61%. He also won two England caps, both in 1959. Clough retired from playing at the age of 29, after sustaining anterior cruciate ligament damage. He remains one of the Football League's highest goalscorers.
In 1965, Clough took the manager's job at Fourth Division Hartlepools United and appointed Peter Taylor as his assistant, the start of an enduring partnership that would bring them success at numerous clubs over the next two decades. In 1967 the duo moved on to Second Division Derby County. In 1968–69, Derby were promoted as Second Division champions. Three years later, Derby were crowned champions of England for the first time in the club's history. In 1973 they reached the semi-finals of the European Cup. However, by this point Clough's relationship with chairman Sam Longson had deteriorated, and he and Taylor resigned.
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