Dogwood Tales (Free subscription) | 01/12/2009
I'm not a football fan by any stretch of the imagination. I've never supported a team, worn a jersey or even watched a whole 90 minute match all the way through. Every Euro tournament or World Cup season is an excuse to stock up with dvds for the duration. So why did I watch a film about the football manager Brian Clough? Well, regardless of my protestations there is something about the...
Twohundredpercent (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
This week's Video Of The Week is the second in the series of "Match Of The Seventies" videos, and features Brian CLough hitting national headlines for the first time, Rodney Marsh upsetting the balance at Manchester City and West Germany (not for the first time) tearing England a new hole.
5th Estate (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Duncan Hamilton, author of 'Provided You Don't Kiss Me', the brilliant and inciteful book on the great Brian Clough, has just won the William Hill sports' writing award for the second time. Kevin Mitchell, writing on the Guardian website , said this: Hamilton won the gong two years ago with his book on Brian Clough, Provided You Don't Kiss Me. Now he's done it again. I can...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
A SORT of history was marked by Nottingham Forest’s game against Doncaster Rovers yesterday. Part of the Brian Clough stand at the City Ground was opened as a joint family enclosure for both sets of fans, allowing them to mingle happily instead of being separated by metal railings, barbed wire, stewards and the Old Bill.
Through the seasons before us.. (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
Nottingham Forest – 4 Doncaster Rovers – 1 It was an afternoon sullied by only a couple of things really, the fact that we couldn’t prevent the visiting side from scoring a consolation goal, and the dreadful ‘integration zone.’ This saw foam-hand toting fans of both Forest and Doncaster ensconced in the lower Brian Clough stand. The [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Duncan Hamilton has won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award for the second time in three years Duncan Hamilton has won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award for the second time in three years, for his authorised biography of Harold Larwood. Hamilton won the award in 2007 for As Long As You Don't Kiss Me, a memoir of Brian Clough. Graham Sharpe, William Hill's spokesman...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
... will set all sort of jealous juices running. Hamilton won the gong two years ago with his book on Brian Clough, Provided You Don't Kiss Me. Now he's done it again. I can hear the gnashing of teeth around the best bars in town and beyond. I've got to say, I found Christian Ryan's book on Kim Hughes the best cricket read of the year, but what do I know? You can't take anything away...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
By Andrew Baker Published: 4:51PM GMT 26 Nov 2009Prize guy: Duncan Hamilton has won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award for his biography of bowler Harold Larwood (above)Photo: PAHamilton's biography, Harold Larwood, scooped the first prize, worth £21,000 and a £2,000 free bet to the winner. The author first won the prize in 2007 for this biography of Brian Clough, As Long...
Bob Piper (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
... to miss (the voices were invariably right when he played for us anyway). And in celebrated cases Brian Clough was an alcoholic, Stan Collymore suffered from depression and Paul Gascoine has been sectioned under the Mental Health Act. Numerous other footballers have had serious problems with alcohol, Frank Bruno and Marcus Trescothwick have both had mental health issues, and the tragic...
