Clough

Rating:
Summary: It was just as I imagined it would be
Review: A good read from old "big mouth". He comes across as the arrogant, self confident, single minded man that made him a great manager and great entertainment.

One of the best football autobiographies I've read.

Rating:
Summary: It was just as I imagined it would be
Review: A good read from old "big mouth". He comes across as the arrogant, self confident, single minded man that made him a great manager and great entertainment.

One of the best football autobiographies I've read.

Rating:
Summary: Arrogant, but has cause to be
Review: Brian Clough is one of the most enigmatic figures to grace the manager's hotseat in recent decades. As both player and manager with clubs like Middlesborough, Sunderland, Derby and Nottingham Forrest, who he guided to back-to-back European titles, Clough's arrogance was perhaps only matched by his sheer brilliance, and it is this combination of arrogance and brilliance which certainly comes across in his fairly controversial novel.

Not afraid to brutally attack his detractors - whom he has a legion of due to his brash and abrasive nature - Clough is honest, rough but writes with a passion that cannot help but grip the reader. He relates stories about some of the legendary figures of the game, both on and off the field, and gives his honest appraisal of the role of the manager as he saw it - preferring to play down the importance of 'coaching' players as such and focussing more on the true qualities of 'managing' them.

Clough is brutal, honest, funny and incisive with his comments, and this sets his book apart from so many other sporting autobiographies and makes it a worthy read.

Rating:
Summary: Arrogant, but has cause to be
Review: Brian Clough is one of the most enigmatic figures to grace the manager's hotseat in recent decades. As both player and manager with clubs like Middlesborough, Sunderland, Derby and Nottingham Forrest, who he guided to back-to-back European titles, Clough's arrogance was perhaps only matched by his sheer brilliance, and it is this combination of arrogance and brilliance which certainly comes across in his fairly controversial novel.

Not afraid to brutally attack his detractors - whom he has a legion of due to his brash and abrasive nature - Clough is honest, rough but writes with a passion that cannot help but grip the reader. He relates stories about some of the legendary figures of the game, both on and off the field, and gives his honest appraisal of the role of the manager as he saw it - preferring to play down the importance of 'coaching' players as such and focussing more on the true qualities of 'managing' them.

Clough is brutal, honest, funny and incisive with his comments, and this sets his book apart from so many other sporting autobiographies and makes it a worthy read.