Provided You Don’t Kiss Me: 20 Years with Brian Clough

by Duncan Hamilton

It’s as if a player died and a manager was born in that moment, a career reignited by the rocket fuel of rage and injustice, a belief that he had something else to prove and needed to do it urgently.

the knowledge that failure again – while it would be personally and critically damaging – was never going to lead to the poorhouse.

the hardest thing is to say nowt,

but sometimes it’s the best thing you can do.’

It’s unfair to hang around and lurk in the background.

Time froze. I could hear the beating of my own heart, my blood pounding in my ears.

Sport is more important than I ever gave it credit for, and athletes have a greater significance in everyday life than ninety-nine per