Editing Brian Clough (section)

===Derby County===
[[File:Brian Clough and Peter Taylor Statue Derby.jpg|thumb|right|upright|Brian Clough and Peter Taylor Statue at Pride Park]]

Derby County had been rooted in the [[Football League Second Division|Second Division]] for a decade before Clough's arrival, and had been outside the top flight for a further five years, their only major trophy being the [[FA Cup]] in 1946.

In Clough's [[1967–68 Derby County F.C. season|first season]], the club finished one place lower than in the previous season, but he had started to lay the foundations for his future success by signing several new players, among them [[Roy McFarland]], [[John O'Hare]], [[John McGovern (footballer)|John McGovern]], [[Alan Hinton]] and Les Green. Of the inherited squad, 11 players departed and only four were retained: [[Kevin Hector]], [[Alan Durban]], [[Ron Webster]] and [[Colin Boulton]]. Clough also sacked the club secretary, the groundsman and the chief scout, along with two tea ladies he caught laughing after a Derby defeat.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2009/mar/11/brian-clough-film |title=David Lacey on one of Britain's greatest football managers |work=The Guardian |location=London |date= 11 March 2009|access-date=11 July 2009 }}</ref> With the additional signings of [[Dave Mackay (footballer born 1934)|Dave Mackay]] and [[Willie Carlin]] in [[1968–69 Derby County F.C. season|1968–69]], Clough and Taylor's management led Derby to become champions of the [[Football League Second Division|Second Division]], establishing the club record of 22 matches without defeat on the way and the team was promoted to the [[Football League First Division|First Division]] for the [[1969–70 Derby County F.C. season|1969–70 season]].

Clough was universally seen as a hard but fair manager, who insisted on clean play from his players and brooked no stupid questions from the press. He insisted on being called "Boss" and earned great respect from his peers for his ability to turn a game to his and his team's advantage. Derby's first season back in the [[Football League First Division|First Division]] saw them finish fourth, their best league finish for over twenty years, but, due to financial irregularities, the club was banned from Europe the following season and fined £10,000.{{citation needed|date=February 2018}}

In [[1970–71 Derby County F.C. season|1970–71]], the club finished ninth. In February 1971, Clough bolstered his squad by signing [[Colin Todd]] for a British record £175,000 on the same day Clough had denied that Derby were about to buy Todd. In the [[1971–72 Derby County F.C. season|1971–72]] season, after tussling with [[Liverpool F.C.|Liverpool]], [[Leeds United F.C.|Leeds United]] and [[Manchester City F.C.|Manchester City]] for the title, Derby finally topped the league table by one point after playing their final match, a 1–0 win over Liverpool. [[Manchester City F.C.|Manchester City]] did temporarily top the league after playing their last match, but had a slim chance of winning the title due to outstanding fixtures between the clubs directly below them. Peter Taylor took the players on holiday to [[Majorca]] as the clubs beneath them played their final matches. Clough was not with the squad, instead holidaying in the [[Isles of Scilly]] with his family and elderly parents. Both Liverpool and Leeds United had a chance to overtake Derby by winning their final matches (played a week later due to fixture congestion) but Leeds lost to [[Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.|Wolves]] and Liverpool drew at [[Arsenal F.C.|Arsenal]], meaning Derby were league champions for the first time in their 88-year history. The team and management were on holiday when receiving the news they were champions.

====Feud with the Derby County board of directors====
In August 1972, Clough refused to go on an arranged pre-season tour of the Netherlands and [[West Germany]] unless he could take his family with him. Derby chairman Sam Longson told him that it was a working trip and not a holiday, so Clough put Taylor in charge of the tour instead and refused to go. The club did not contest the [[1972 FA Charity Shield|FA Charity Shield]] that year.

On 24 August 1972, Clough and Taylor signed [[David Nish]] from [[Leicester City F.C.|Leicester City]] for a then-record transfer fee of £225,000, without consulting the Derby board.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/bob.dunning/thirty27.htm |title=Thirty Years Ago – August 1972 |publisher=Dspace.dial.pipex.com |date=9 January 2005 |access-date=29 August 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100418202326/http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/bob.dunning/thirty27.htm |archive-date=18 April 2010 }}</ref> Afterwards, Jack Kirkland, a director, warned Clough and Taylor there would be no more expensive buys like Nish. Then, in early September 1972, after the team had defeated [[Liverpool F.C.|Liverpool]] 2–1 at the [[Baseball Ground]], Clough criticised the Derby County fans, stating that "They started chanting only near the end when we were a goal in front. I want to hear them when we are losing. They are a disgraceful lot". In the same interview, Clough also verbally attacked the club's board of directors for their policies. The following day, board chairman Sam Longson apologised to the fans and dissociated himself from Clough's remarks.

That [[1972–73 Derby County F.C. season|1972–73 season]], Derby failed to retain their title, finishing seventh, but reached the semi-finals of the [[1972–73 European Cup|European Cup]] in April 1973, when they were knocked out by [[Juventus FC|Juventus]] 3–1 on aggregate.<ref>{{cite news|language=it|url=http://www.archiviolastampa.it/component/option,com_lastampa/task,search/action,viewer/Itemid,3/page,0009/articleid,1499_02_1974_0093A_0025_23123597/|title=La Juve era già assolta|work=La Stampa |location=Italy|page=9|date=22 April 1974|access-date=11 April 2011}}</ref> During the first leg in [[Turin]], Clough was aggrieved by the performance of the match referee, whom he believed had been influenced and possibly bribed to favour the Italian side.<ref>{{harvnb|Clough|2002|pp=201–203}}</ref> After the game, Clough refused to speak to the Italian reporters, saying: "No cheating bastards do I talk to. I will not talk to any cheating bastards". He instructed [[Brian Glanville]] to translate what he had said to them<ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/sep/21/guardianobituaries.football | title = Obituary: Brian Glanville | date = 21 September 2004 | first = Brian | last = Glanville |work=The Guardian |location=London | access-date =11 April 2011 }}</ref> and questioned the Italian nation's courage in the [[Second World War]]  evidently his grandfather was not in El Alamein..<ref>{{cite news|last=Philip |first=Robert |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/2295033/Brian-Cloughs-words-and-deeds-still-stand-out.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/2295033/Brian-Cloughs-words-and-deeds-still-stand-out.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Brian Clough's words and deeds still stand out |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=21 March 2008 |access-date=11 July 2009 | location=London}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

It was these sorts of frequent, outspoken comments – particularly against football's establishment, such as the [[The Football Association|FA]] and club directors, and figures in the game such as [[Matt Busby]], [[Alan Hardaker]], [[Alf Ramsey]], [[Don Revie]] and Len Shipman, along with players such as [[Billy Bremner]], [[Norman Hunter (footballer)|Norman Hunter]] and [[Peter Lorimer]] – combined with Clough's increased media profile, that eventually led to his falling out with the Rams' chairman, Sam Longson, and the Derby County board of directors.

On 5 August 1973, Clough put his name to an article in the ''[[Sunday Express]]'' headlined "I Would Put Leeds in Division Two – Brian Clough lashes Soccer's bosses for letting off Don Revie's 'bad boys,'"<ref>{{cite web |title=The Definitive History of Leeds United – 1972/73 – Part 3 – The Revie-Clough wrangle |url=http://www.mightyleeds.co.uk/seasons/197273part3.htm |website=www.mightyleeds.co.uk |access-date=5 May 2021}}</ref> which savaged [[Leeds United F.C.|Leeds United]]'s disciplinary record, stating that Revie should be fined for encouraging his players in their unsporting behaviour and Leeds relegated to the Second Division. Clough also said that "The men who run football have missed the most marvellous chance of cleaning up the game in one swoop" and went on to say "The trouble with football's disciplinary system is that those who sat in judgement being officials of other clubs might well have a vested interest."

Days afterwards, Clough was charged with bringing the game into disrepute, but he was cleared on 14 November after he had later resigned from Derby. In September 1973, Clough travelled to [[West Ham United F.C.|West Ham United's]] [[Boleyn Ground|Upton Park]] and personally made a £400,000 bid for [[Bobby Moore]], a player he long admired, and [[Trevor Brooking]]. West Ham manager [[Ron Greenwood]] informed Clough that neither was available but that he would pass his offer onto the West Ham board of directors anyway. Clough never told Derby's chairman, secretary or any other board members at Derby about the bid. Longson found out four months later during a chance conversation with Eddie Chapman, West Ham's secretary at the time, but by then Clough was no longer the Derby County manager.

====Resignation from Derby County====

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 F.C.|Coventry City]] before changing their minds after Longson offered them more money.

During the [[1973–74 Derby County F.C. season|1973–74 season]], on 11 October 1973, Longson called for the sackings of both Clough and Taylor at a board meeting, but did not gain the support that was needed. Earlier that week, Longson had demanded that Clough stop writing newspaper articles and making television appearances, and prohibited both Clough and Taylor drinking alcohol on Derby County premises. Two days later, following a 1–0 win against [[Manchester United F.C.|Manchester United]] at [[Old Trafford]], club director Jack Kirkland demanded to know what Taylor's exact role within the club was, and instructed Taylor to meet him at the ground two days later to explain. On the same day, Longson accused Clough of making a [[V-sign]] at Matt Busby and chairman [[Louis Edwards]] and demanded that he apologise. Clough refused, and admitted later that he did make a V-sign, but it was aimed at Longson, not Busby or Edwards: he blamed Longson for providing too few tickets and seating for players' and staff's wives, including his own and Taylor's.

Clough and Taylor hoped to oust Longson as chairman, as they had done with Ord seven years earlier, but failed. Both Clough and Taylor resigned on the evening of 15 October 1973, and the resignation was accepted by Sam Longson the following morning, to widespread uproar from Rams fans, who demanded the board's resignation along with Clough and Taylor's reinstatement at the following home game against Leicester City four days later. That evening, Clough appeared on ''[[Parkinson (TV series)|Parkinson]]'' and attacked football directors for their apparent "lack of knowledge" of football.

That week, Clough, as a television football pundit, memorably called [[Poland national football team|Poland]] goalkeeper [[Jan Tomaszewski]] a "circus clown in gloves" before the crucial [[FIFA World Cup|World Cup]] qualifier with England at Wembley.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/oct/12/jan-tomaszewski-poland-clown|title=Jan Tomaszewski: A man haunted for ever after being called a clown|first=Maciej|last=Slominski|date=12 October 2013|website=The Guardian|access-date=3 April 2018}}</ref> The match, which England had to win in order to qualify for the [[1974 World Cup]] finals, ended 1–1, and Tomaszewski made numerous magnificent saves, some of them unconventionally, to ensure his nation qualified for the finals at England's expense. When commentator [[Brian Moore (commentator)|Brian Moore]] said "You call him a clown, Brian, but he saved his side", Clough insisted "Would you want him in your team every week?"{{citation needed|date=May 2013}}

The six years at Derby County had brought Clough to the attention of the wider football world. According to James Lawton, "Derby was the wild making of Brian Clough. He went there a young and urgent manager who had done impressive work deep in his own little corner of the world at Hartlepools. He left surrounded by fascination and great celebrity: abrasive, infuriating, but plugged, immovably, into a vein of the nation."<ref>James Lawton, ''The Independent'', 10 January 2009</ref>