Volte-farce? Mini-budget climbdown joins list of other spectacular U-turns
From Coke, Clinton to Clough, here are some other celebrated examples of shameless backtracking
March 2022
Sportblog
Forest v Liverpool FA Cup tie offers reminder of another time in Clough era
Jonathan Wilson
The institution of the Cup is widely devalued but Nottingham Forest v Liverpool brings up memories of a more innocent age
November 2021
Brian Clough’s role in creating the myth that fans were to blame at Hillsborough
Letters: Phil Scraton on the late Nottingham Forest manager’s persistent lies about Liverpool supporters
October 2021
90s footballers
Ian Woan: ‘Clough’s magic was putting a team of misfits together’
Left-winger became a Nottingham Forest hero after Brian Clough hijacked Harry Redknapp’s deal to sign him from Runcorn
Brian Clough and me: ‘If it wasn’t for him, I’d be in prison’
Craig Bromfield was a ‘ragtag’ youngster when the legendary football manager changed his life by inviting him into his family. So what went wrong?
‘Tonight there were no words’: a dark day at Hillsborough with Brian Clough
Craig Bromfield, who grew up with the football manager, recalls being with him on the most devastating day in the sport’s history
October 2020
Other lives
John Wilford obituary
From the Guardian archive
Archive, 1973: Derby players demand reinstatement of Brian Clough
May 2020
That 1980s sports blog
When Nottingham Forest retained the European Cup 40 years ago
Brian Clough’s team went to Madrid in 1980 without their record signing. They returned as two-time European champions
April 2020
Ranked
Michael Sheen's impersonations – ranked!
The actor is currently wowing viewers as Chris Tarrant in Quiz, but he has a long line of uncanny impressions in his back catalogue
April 2018
The Damned United review – Brian Clough drama is a game of two halves
Clough’s ill-fated tenure at Leeds United is turned into a finely performed, if loosely structured, three-hander
January 2018
Brian Clough memory stirs Wenger’s nostalgia for lost age of management
Arsenal’s third-round FA Cup tie at Nottingham Forest has Arsène Wenger longing for a time when managers made the difference and football was less predictable
June 2017
How England's first wave of heavy metal football conquered Europe
Jenny Gunn laughs off chucker taunts and trains sights on World Cup glory
January 2017
Nottingham Forest ask Burton Albion for permission to speak to Nigel Clough
Nottingham Forest have asked Burton Albion for permission to speak to Nigel Clough, a former player at the club, about their managerial vacancy
November 2016
Brief letters
A tip for Trump and a search for tropes
Brief letters: The Great Hedge of India | The illiberal elite | Word origins | Memes | English national costume | Brian Clough’s political stand | Robert Vaughn, super fly guy
September 2016
Sportblog
Nottingham Forest show the rewards of investing in the production line
It is 12 years since Brian Clough died and his philosophy of giving youth a chance is being maintained at the City Ground by Philippe Montanier
Dean Saunders gives his version of a meeting with Brian Clough – video
Dean Saunders recalls his version of events when he met the Nottingham Forest manager Brian Clough, who was trying to sign the striker in June 1991
Dean Saunders and Brian Clough – a story that went viral but doesn’t finish there
The former Derby striker seems to have put a meeting with Nottingham Forest’s manager in 1991 to discuss a British record transfer through a very imaginative scriptwriter
May 2016
Sportblog
José Mourinho is seen as a route to title but 128 years of history are against him
Jonathan Wilson
As Mourinho arrives at Manchester United, he has to buck a trend in English football where only four managers have won the league with more than one club
