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10 unusual facts about Brian Clough


1992 Football League Cup Final

The final was also notable as Brian Clough's last major domestic cup final as a football manager.

Baseball Ground

The record attendance was 41,826 for a match against Tottenham Hotspur in 1969, just after Derby County were promoted under the management of Brian Clough, at the beginning of the most successful era in the club's history.

Danny Hinshelwood

Hinshelwood began his career as apprentice with Nottingham Forest on leaving the FA School of Excellence, one of his duties being to walk Brian Clough's dog.

Darren Wassall

He left Forest for Derby County in 1992 in a £600,000 deal amid rumours of a dressing room incident with manager Brian Clough which left Wassall feeling unable to remain at Forest.

Geoff Twentyman

After his retirement Twentyman had a short 4 month spell as the boss of Hartlepools United before being replaced by a certain Brian Clough.

Ian Storey-Moore

In 1972, Storey-Moore was introduced by Brian Clough, then manager of Derby County as a new player, with a fee of £225,000 reportedly agreed.

Jack Hatfield

Jack Hatfield's was visited by scores of professional and amateur footballers over the years, and Hatfield counted the likes of Matt Busby and Brian Clough as personal friends.

Kenneth Smales

He went on to give over thirty five years of service to the club, and was secretary during Brian Clough's reign, where the club won countless trophies both home and abroad.

Larry Lloyd

Laurence Valentine Lloyd (born 6 October 1948 in Bristol, England) was a footballer, a burly and tough central defender who won honours for both Bill Shankly's Liverpool and Brian Clough's Nottingham Forest, both highly successful sides of the 1970s.

Michael Peter Harrison

Harrison, who played under Brian Clough at Nottingham Forest, enjoyed a playing career at Gateshead and then moved on to play for Belgian side Charleroi, alongside Phillipe Albert.


Kevin Hector

After a successful start to his playing career in the lower leagues at Bradford Park Avenue, Tim Ward signed him for Derby County in 1966 and was a key player in their success under the management of Brian Clough and Dave Mackay over the next few seasons, forming a formidable partnership with John O'Hare.

Mike Ingham

He grew up in Duffield and Quarndon (home to Brian Clough), and attended The Herbert Strutt School (became the comprehensive Belper School in 1973) in Belper, then a grammar school.

Paul Bown

In 2009 he appeared briefly as Mike Bamber, chairman of Brighton and Hove Albion Football Club in the Brian Clough bio-pic The Damned United.