Brian Clough.

[the other bob wilson]

Forest won their first European Cup in a season when Liverpool were league Champions, so both sides were in the following season's European Cup and when then drawn against each other in the First Round - imagine that happening now when the rules are geared to make sure the biggest teams are still there in the Champions League's closing stages.

Forest beat Liverpool 2-0 at the City Ground in the First Leg and then got a 0-0 in the game at Anfield. One of the biggest markers of how good Forest were in the late seventies into 1980 was how they tended to get the better of a great Liverpool side when they played them.

[light up the darkness]

In the two seasons I spent at Newport I also played against the great Ivor Allchurch when he was at the end of his career with Haverfordwest. He didn't run very far (or fast!) and generally stayed in or near the centre circle spraying passes around at will.

Was that the same will that British soldiers used to take aim at ?

[theclaw]

Very nearly manager of Wales,if only.

[SOXY BOY]

He hated Bob Stokoe with a passion because Stokoe said he was faking when he suffered his injury, similar to Harland standing over Roy Keane , but Cloughie didn’t get his own back.

[J R Hartley]

He was obsessed with loyalty. Didn't Taylor take the managerial job that clough was sacked from-isn't that why they fell out?

That’s not how it plays out in the film Damned United but I think they were a little bit creative with the truth in that film. As was Dean Saunders in that story he tells about Brian Clough by all accounts.

[Hilts]

That’s not how it plays out in the film Damned United but I think they were a little bit creative with the truth in that film. As was Dean Saunders in that story he tells about Brian Clough by all accounts.

They fell out again after the period where the Damned Utd ended.

Think Taylor wanted to retire so left Forest then months later joined Derby I think.

Dean Saunders tried to sound funny and tell a funny Clough story. Most people though think his story is exaggerated to the extreme or complete bollox.

[tforturton]

There are two different stories surrounding Clough's career-ending injury. In Len Ashurst's autobiography, Uncle Len says that it was his long ball pass that Clough was running onto, when he tangled with the opposition keeper. Ashurst claims that Clough always blamed him for the accident, but in Clough's book, he says different.
According to Clough, it was Jimmy McNab who punted it forward, not Ashurst, but he does acknowledge that there was some bad blood between them. Guess we'll never know the truth.
Both books are good reads, if you can find them.