Blunders 11:43 Tue Nov 10
Brian Clough: I Believe in Miracles
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Anyone seen this yet? Coming out on DVD/BR on the 16th.
Being referred to as the best football documentary ever made.
"Britain, 1975: Brian Clough is sacked as manager of Leeds United after just 44 days in charge. Seemingly impossible to work with, Clough’s only offer of work comes from a run-down second division club called Nottingham Forest, who are going nowhere fast.
Set to a fantastic 70s soundtrack, using unseen footage of games and the great man himself, and including interviews with every player from Clough’s European Cup-winning side, I Believe in Miracles is the untold story of how the team nobody believed in and the manager nobody wanted went on to beat the world’s best and become one of the greatest sides in British football history.
By turns hilarious, inspirational, emotional and epic, I Believe in Miracles is quite simply “the Greatest Football Film ever made” (The Guardian)."
I know it's not West Ham, but c'mon, it's a fantastic football story. And Clough was a proper football man.
Bonus points if you get the icon reference.
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Northern Sold
11:44 Tue Nov 10
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Will be viewing... absolute genius of a manager
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charleyfarley
11:44 Tue Nov 10
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The Polish goalkeeper Clough referred to as a clown
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Northern Sold
11:44 Tue Nov 10
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Beat a clown up when he invaded the pitch??
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Pancho
11:45 Tue Nov 10
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Northern Sold 11:44 Tue Nov 10
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Monk~koknee
11:47 Tue Nov 10
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Brian Clough was scared of clowns?
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Northern Sold
11:50 Tue Nov 10
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He watched Poltergiest and it fucked him with that Clown under the bed?
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charleyfarley
11:50 Tue Nov 10
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Jan Tomaszewski: A man haunted for ever after being called a clown
Brian Clough's throwaway remark and his saves for Poland against England in October 1973
Brian Clough called him "a circus clown in gloves" in the ITV studio
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The Joker
11:55 Tue Nov 10
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Be having some of this. Loved Cloughie. Absolute genius.
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Blunders
11:59 Tue Nov 10
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ooh, that's right - it's actually 2 reference for price of 1. Completely forgot about Tomaszewski.
I just always remember that clip of him, looking like a PE teacher, beating up the clown who invaded the pitch.
http://cache2.asset-cache.net/gc/106556730-nottingham-forest-manager-brian-clough-gettyimages.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=R4V%2FQay2ANwpmCZhkZDSEsTMu%2FGEsJsKCkc9rjKlwTorbO3afCptzbvTnN6T7zRKu4otnJrZoNEVbY%2BvkZ9izw%3D%3D
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kips
11:59 Tue Nov 10
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Cloughs Teams: The whole always greater than the sum of the parts.
He always recognised it was a team game. God knows what he would make of todays prima donna's
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El Scorchio
11:59 Tue Nov 10
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Clough was great.
Always like the story about him and Sir Trevor.
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Northern Sold
12:00 Tue Nov 10
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Yeah that was the one I was thinking of Blunders
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Russ of the BML
12:18 Tue Nov 10
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As a young kid I remember seeing Brian Clough as some sort of god like enigma. I can recall my dad always talking about him but as I was so young I never really knew much and can just remember references and clips of him.
As I got older obviously knew more about him and how great he was so it was with real sadness you watched the bloke decline. An images that stays with me is when Forest got relegated and he just looked beaten and finished. Booze had taken him over and he was sitting on the bench with his red blotchy cheeks and nose and he just had no more to give.
The man who was once invincible in every way was gone. Such a shame to see.
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JONESY
12:20 Tue Nov 10
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Russ.......
you just described, perfectly, my career in the city!
*goes for a walk and cries a bit*
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Russ of the BML
12:22 Tue Nov 10
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JONESY 12:20 Tue Nov 10
Funnily enough my dad told me about you too. It wasn't all good though ;o)
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Pancho
12:45 Tue Nov 10
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Looks really good and lets be fair - what he did will NEVER be done again.
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JONESY
12:49 Tue Nov 10
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thanks Panch!
oh.....
I see.....
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Mike Oxsaw
12:53 Tue Nov 10
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And on a positive note, after giving him an establishment-led royal fuck-around, the English footballing authorities can never hold what he did up and use it to promote all that is/was good in the English game.
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Eddie B
12:53 Tue Nov 10
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The drink took over him. Massive shame.
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geoffpikey
12:57 Tue Nov 10
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Cantankerous, pissed-up, self-opinionated, miserable, sarcastic, bullying bastaaaaard.
But a legend and WINNER and we shall not his kind again. Will watch!
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