I have moved back up to Sunderland to live which is probably a mistake. He was appointed as manager of Sheffield United a month later, guiding them out of the relegation zone and taking the club to FA Cup and League Cup semi-finals. Perhaps intuitively aware of their difficult homelife, the boys were invited to come down and stay with Clough. I put my brother and best mate out of work and it didnt sit easily, Clough reflects. Born in Sunderland and raised in Allestree, Derby,[4][5] Clough is most notable for his time as a player at Nottingham Forest, where he played over 400 times in league, cup and European matches in two separate spells, mostly under the managership of his father Brian Clough, and scored 131 goals throughout his career making him the second highest scorer in the club's history. to help cut costs amid the coronavirus pandemic. When there was a problem at Royces everybody felt it. On reflection, Clough feels he should have left then, in the summer of 2017, but he is not the type to mull for long. You start to wonder. The United team featured Ole Gunnar Solskjr and Louis Saha, with Cristiano Ronaldo and Wayne Rooney introduced as second-half substitutes. Working for Simon in his shop, Craig found out that money was being taken by his colleague and friend. The book tells stories of Clough saving Craig and Aaron from bullies and even allowing him to sit on the Forest bench. See also Other Works | Publicity Listings | Official Sites View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro Getting Started | Contributor Zone Contribute to This Page Looking forward, Mansfields young chief executive David Sharpe, grandson of former Wigan owner David Whelan, and Clough have a target of promotion next season and feel that is attainable. "Growing up around heroes and having amazing experiences. To see that side of it and still see the loveliness shine through was immense.". Derby finished the season 12th in the league, with Clough satisfied with the performances of the team, stating that a lack of firepower was the reason why they fell short and that it would be an area to improve on in the following season. Clough took the job at League Two Mansfield in November with the side winless. It takes me back to some places that I do not want to think about but I have had to. But, like Clough, they had chutzpah by the bucketload and huge smiles. Wife, Net What is Lamman Rucker doing now? My dad used to tease me that I would never beat him at anything, he laughs. "Why go off chasing something else when you might not be so happy? His is a story of poverty and of vivid tales of racism in the 1980s - his elder brother Aaron was mixed race. It is something I struggle with, letting them down as I did when they had shown me such love. They're only five and three once. We have been clear about that continuously. my wife certainly didn't!" . But Aaron explained, Craig approached him and it changed his life. "They have told me on numerous occasions whenever I have met them that I need to forgive myself, let it go and move on. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Your email address will not be published. [46] This meant Clough retained control of the club's player recruitment policy and he was keen to add to his squad. Dec 1989: Relatives. English soccer player who played in more than 400 matches with Nottingham Forest and won Football League Cup titles with the club in 1989 and 1990. Clough said they could go to the match with them on the team bus, but first he would have to ring their parents to check that it was OK. Craig worked in Simons shops, rapidly proved himself and was made assistant manager. Read about our approach to external linking. Even then, Craig says, he did it so kindly, giving them an 800 farewell payment. The greatest overall compatibility with Pieces is Virgo and Taurus. An incident back home not long after that first meeting, highlights the absurdity of Clough's eccentric generosity and how he made it seem so natural. Brian used to say, Youre either loyal or youre not and for a while I was not. He doesnt talk to the Cloughs when he goes to the matches; he doesnt even tell them he is there. He invariably got hired on the strength of his interview. After his parents split up, he had nothing more to do with him. He told me, I said under no circumstances whatsoever is that thieving little shit to receive a penny. The last time he saw him, in late 1994, Clough said he, Simon and Nigel had considered getting the police involved. [44], The club also finally ended their interest in appointing a director of football,[45] something the club had been considering since May 2011. [citation needed], In April 1988, he was the subject of a 1.5 million bid from Italian side Pisa, but the bid was turned down and Clough remained at Forest, who finished third that season and the season after. Once youre out of our circle, youre out of our circle, she said. Margaret Sharp Clough is the wife of Nigel Clough. Jerry had been racially abused all his life, and ended up selling drugs and thieving to make a living. He hoped it would be cathartic, but hes yet to make peace with himself. [55] Clough also led the Blades to the semi-finals of the League Cup in the 201415 season after a 10 win over Southampton at Bramall Lane. he boys hit it off with the Forest squad. The pair will again work together at the Stags, with Crosby joining as his assistant, while his older brother Simon Clough has been appointed as head of recruitment. They hugged and talked. [36], Clough's continuing stay at the club was rewarded by overseeing Derby's best start to the season in 106 years as they opened the season with four victories from four and earned a Championship Manager of the Month nomination. The lockdown YouTube comedian paints a picture of Mok as an abusive wife, and he makes dirty jokes about her treatment of him and the divorce itself. We had carte blanche, access to everything the games room, Nigels room, the waterbed, videos, clothes. He is from United Kingdom. It was the best day of their lives. Clough formerly played for Nottingham Forest (1984-1993, 1996-1997 - Loan), Liverpool (1993-1996), Manchester City (1996-1998), Sheffield Wednesday (1997 - Loan), and Burton Albion (1998-2009) where he was player-manager. The 56-year-old British soccer player has done well thus far. He signed for Premier League relegation battlers Manchester City for 1.5million. He is doing so by using the proceeds to raise money for boys like he was. Astrologers and astronomers could only work with planets visible to the eye. After spells at Liverpool, Manchester City and short-lived stay back at Forest, he moved to Burton where he established himself in management alongside assistant and former team-mate Gary Crosby. Uncle Roger's ex-wife "Auntie Helen" is actually based on his real ex, Evelyn Mok. The decade was dominated by the Vietnam War, Civil Rights Protests, Cuban Missile Crisis, antiwar protests and saw the assassinations of US President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. ", It is why what happened next is still so difficult for Craig to accept. Though he cannot repair relationships, as the book's title suggests, he wants to be good. And whoever was in the room would be in stitches., Clough always called himself a socialist. He tells me that Aaron was the more popular of the two boys it wasnt just the smile, he was so willing to help out, and took any task he was given seriously, while Craig slobbed around watching the telly. n 2004, Clough died. [8] Clough played in all of Manchester City's remaining 15 league appearances after his arrival at Maine Road, scoring twice, but could not stave off relegation and shortly afterwards he lost his place in the team due to injury. Then Aaron gets out and runs up these steps, waving at me, and Brians just walking along here with his entourage.. Children, William and Helena. He was about 5ft 9in but had the presence of a giant and an unbelievably beautiful smile. Clough asked what was wrong and Craig told him. Towards the end of the season, he was used as a centre-back on several occasions. I think theyd have given me a second chance. Did he know that at the time? Its what I need. In 2018, he saw Nigel at a match. The glitz of the FA Cup will not change him tomorrow lunchtime. Craigs first memory of his biological father is him smashing a mirror over his mother, Gillians, head. Clough is 54 now and more than 22 years and 1,000 games into his career as a manager. "If I had not met Brian Clough, my life would have been over before it had even begun," Craig Bromfield tells Sky Sports. He travelled normally, he cooked for us. The stats behind Man Utd's odds-defying run of home cup draws, Papers: Ronaldo told Mane leaving Liverpool for Bayern was a 'great step', Transfer Centre LIVE! Anything he missed, I would add. He joined the clubs senior squad 2 years later. But my mam and my dad would say, Dont get used to it because they wont invite you back again. It used to destroy me. "[40], Clough signed a new three-year deal, to take him through until summer 2015, on 17 October, two days after a 11 draw with league leaders Southampton had kept Derby in the play-off places. Wife, Margaret. The Champions League returns, with the 250,000 Super 6 jackpot up for grabs. Clough senior would be proud of his son. "My hope is that the proceeds enable me to do some good for somebody else," he adds. I dont think you have to ask that. He was right. Sometimes he would make a joke without people realising he had made a joke. For the first time, we felt loved and special, Craig says. I don't like anyone being too comfortable. Sport. [29], Derby suffered a major shock in the FA Cup, losing to Crawley Town 21. No kind, no decent person would do what I did.. Results improved after Clough's arrival, with a run of four consecutive wins. Nigel Clough's West Ham reaction. Nigel Clough believes Pep Guardiola has left a unique imprint on Manchester City during his time at the Club. A waste of time. JUMP TO: Nigel Cloughs biography, facts, family, personal life, zodiac, videos, net worth, and popularity. It is also a story of regret and of the betrayal that Craig is still coming to terms with. We made him laugh: Craig Bromfield (left) and his brother Aaron with Clough at Nottingham Forests City Ground. Clough is 54 now and more than 22 years and 1,000 games into his career as a manager, It was the same when my dad was at Derby in the 70s. Nigel, who speaks in a hushed voice, is as about as quiet and unassuming as his father was loud and ego-driven. It sounds like an infatuation, but he was just a beautiful human being when he wasnt being a twat. He laughs. He was in pieces. It will be refreshing. It was the catalyst for this book. It allowed him to be brutal. He stepped down in May 2020, and returned to work in November at Mansfield Town. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. A tale of two urchins, Craig only 11, asking for a penny for the Guy as Bonfire Night approached, only to stumble upon the Nottingham Forest team at their hotel preparing to face Newcastle. The iconic football commentator John Motson in conversation with Kirsty Young in 2018, Listen to all-new versions of her greatest hits and a classic cover, Steve Coogan chats to Nihal Arthanayake about British humour and cancel culture. After guiding the Brewers up the non-league pyramid, during which they famously took Manchester United into an FA Cup third-round replay in 2006, the club were on course for League Two when he left for Derby in January 2009. Never. Nigel Clough Birth Name: Nigel Clough Occupation: Soccer Player Born In: England, United Kingdom Birthdate: March 19, 1966 Age: 56 years old (as of 2023) Ethnicity: Unknown Nationality: British Sexuality: N/A Nigel Clough was born on the 19th of March, 1966. Once more details are available on who he is dating, we will update this section. But its not. Anyone can lose. [9] He scored once against Leicester City[10] in 13 league games before returning to Manchester City. I just hope everybody gets through this.. "I never felt safe in my own home." But he felt a fraud, his success intensifying his self-loathing. Things had also started to unravel for Craig, who was now 20. English football manager and former player, Nottingham Forest F.C. They were welcomed into Cloughs family, treated like little brothers by Cloughs three children daughter Elizabeth, oldest brother Simon, who owned two newsagents and a card shop, and Nigel, who had just broken into the Forest first team. He was devastated by his betrayal and remains so. 19. Back the early 2,000 B.C. For good and for bad. Like all of us, Clough misses supporters. The team thought he brought them good luck. In an exclusive interview with Sky Sports, Craig Bromfield opens up about his extraordinary story of meeting Brian Clough and being taken in by the manager's family. Nigel Cloughs birth sign is Pisces and he has a ruling planet of Neptune. The Stags were beaten 3-2 by Bradford at One Call Stadium. Clough also contributed to Forest winning the last Full Members Cup in 1992. But, yes, we miss them. This is where our heart is. He was in pieces. By mid-April Derby found themselves 11th in the table, 5 points off the play-offs with four games remaining. Nigel Clough. Clough spoke to former Forest team-mate Garry Birtles last week and discussed the clampdown on goal celebrations. "I've got no ambitions really," said Nigel, who was in his father's team who lost the 1991 FA Cup final to Spurs and who went on to win 14 England caps. Not weird, no. "Underneath it all he was normal. Relation: Name: Birth: Husband: Nigel Clough: Mar 19 1966: Spotted an error? I never told him Dad was a drug dealer.. When they did so, they happened upon Clough fresh from his morning walk, who gave them breakfast and tickets to the game. I changed as a person. He is popular for being a Soccer Player. [42], Derby suffered mixed form through the remainder of the season. But you carry on hoping there is something out there.. I immerse myself in it., He says he doesnt know what he wants to do with his life. Craig was in Warsaw when he heard. When key players returned from injury, Clough was able to start picking a regular team, and results began to improve. Brian Clough with his wife Barbara, at Burton Albion's game versus Hartlepool United to watch the team managed by their son Nigel, during their FA. Beyond that? The strengths of this sign are being compassionate, artistic, gentle, wise, while weaknesses can be to be fearful, overly trusting and desire to escape reality. What was Clough like? By this time, he had been capped 14 times by England at senior level, but failed to score. But they were wrong. Clough jnr has been a big hit in Staffordshire. [citation needed], Clough's first full season in charge of Derby saw significant changes to the playing staff as he brought in nine players and moved on fourteen as well as making substantial dealings in the loan market. Growing up with Brian Clough: Craig Bromfield shares his amazing story, Craig Bromfield (left) and brother Aaron with Brian Clough at the City Ground on the first morning of their first holiday in Nottingham, Ten Hag hails 'dominating' Maguire and Weghorst | Keane: West Ham 'laughable', 10 in a row? Clough died in 2004. Who Is Nigel Clough's Wife? We were talking about thousands of people losing their jobs and mine didnt matter by comparison, he says. As for Gillian, she forced Craig to commit fraud on her behalf dropping him off at the post office so he could sign a false name on a stolen pension book and collect the money on behalf of his auntie. Wife, Margaret. Brian said we used to make him laugh his socks off.". There is no arrogance at our level. Craig, now 48, went on to a career in executive recruitment in Poland and the Czech Republic, at times earning a salary in excess of 100,000. It also marked the first man landed on the moon. Copy and paste this as text into your genealogy software or website Then Aaron gets out and runs up these steps, waving at me, and Brians just walking along here with his entourage.. After two years with the Cloughs, he moved into a flat. I question myself. He returned to Nottingham Forest on loan in December 1996, when Stuart Pearce became manager on an interim basis after the departure of Frank Clark. He was arrogant (even he called himself Old Big Ead); witty (I wouldnt say I was the best manager in the business. When discovered by the Clough family, it was handled delicately. Clough later stepped down as manager in May 2020 due to the financial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the club. I just bottled it at the last minute because I did not know what to say.". "I started writing it as a thank-you letter to Mrs Clough and it just transformed." "He did not exactly make it easy on himself or us by becoming a drug dealer," says Craig. He completed it with the help of sports journalist Tim Rich. I dont know what will.. [13], In October 1998, he moved into management when he accepted the role of player-manager at Burton Albion in the Southern Football League Premier Division. These hippie kids protested against the Vietnam War and participated in the civil rights movement. No. I cannot expect to be friends with him again. No parties or anything. I want it to be the beautiful act that they did. He threw Gillian out of the bedroom window on one occasion, and broke her fingers on another. Not all of it has been easy. In the book, Craig describes nightly dog walks with him on the common, breakfast time with Cloughs wondrous bacon butties, car journeys with Clough singing along to Sinatra. Despite this, the Rams again struggled with injuries, at one point being without thirteen first team players. Steve Millar. It left me with such a hole. [11] When City were relegated to Division Two at the end of the 199798 season, Clough was given a free transfer and his senior football career was over at the age of 32. I ask what he would prefer his book is a bestseller or he makes things up with the Cloughs. Playing predominantly as a forward, but later in his career used as a midfielder, Clough was capped by England 14 times in the early 1990s. He told them he was a footballer called Kenny Swain, that he played for Nottingham Forest and the team were staying at the Seaburn hotel in Sunderland because they had a match against Newcastle the next day. It was 9.30am on a Saturday, freezing, he says. Nigel told him he was sorry to hear about Aaron. If the boys came back in the morning, Swain said, hed get them the players autographs. On 23 October 2013, Clough was appointed new manager of Sheffield United on a two-and-a-half-year deal. The players made me feel like I was part of the team. No. 15:00, 26 JAN 2014. Clough, 54, returned for a second spell in charge of the Brewers in 2015 and helped . Sure enough, the boys, who lived two miles away in the suburb of Southwick, returned, but they couldnt find Swain. Clough, 54, left on Monday, with chairman . They just crushed your enjoyment of it.. People born on a Saturday enjoy an optimistic and positive disposition. Hed be in the Forest dressing room at matches making drinks, tidying stuff away. He and Brian became closer. He didnt know who Brian Clough was. Craig was in Warsaw when he heard. [17], In January 2006, Burton, then in the Conference, held Manchester United to a 00 draw in the third round of the FA Cup. He won 14 caps for England between 1989-1993. Soon enough, he was sitting in the dugout with Clough as Forest won two more League Cups. ", "Pretty much for three years I was in his car driving to work with him and seeing him in his office, in his study, walking around the cricket ground with him. The family didnt have a phone, so Craig and Aaron simply ran home and asked. Who Is Nigel Clough's Wife? "I would have gone to prison because the amount was substantial. The results came during discussions over Clough's contract which was due to expire at the end of the season[38] with Forest allegedly interested in securing their former-player's services. It is not them stopping me moving on, it is me. Nigel Clough is a Pisces and his 57th birthday is in, The 56-year-old British was born in the Generation X and the Year of the Horse. On the bus, Clough sat at the front and told them to bugger off to the back where the chocolate, crisps and fizzy drinks were stored (a footballers diet was very different in those days), to fill their boots and not disturb the lads. Clough's players were booed at the end of a 31 home defeat against Doncaster Rovers on 1 March 2011. Siblings, Simon and Elizabeth. Just because I am negative about it, does not mean that the story is.". I regretted it at times, definitely. The boys hit it off with the Forest squad. Nigel Clough. Winning still means everything. NIGEL CLOUGH could hear the words of wisdom his late, great dad Brian would have given him when he was sacked at Derby. He apologised to her and thanked her for everything they had done for him. . As a manager, he had achieved the impossible twice first with Derby County, then with Nottingham Forest. All Nigel wants is to spend time in his Matlock farmhouse with wife Margaret and their two young children, five-year-old William, and Helena, three. His wife is Margaret Sharp Clough (m. 1989) Nigel Clough Net Worth His net worth has been growing significantly in 2021-2022. As a player, it was the happiest part of his career, and he had two of his kids here. There would not be another opportunity. The family (Gillian had an older son and daughter from her first marriage) was dysfunctional in the extreme. It was brilliant and it was quite a breath of fresh air, but at the same time, the gaffer kept us grounded". When Aaron was 15 he joined the army, and Craig visited the Cloughs by himself. Am I doing it for the right reasons or am I doing it to make myself feel better? Craig confronted Kevin who admitted he had stolen it from the shop but refused to give it back. Entdecke Clough: The Autobiography, Clough, Brian, Used; Good Book in groer Auswahl Vergleichen Angebote und Preise Online kaufen bei eBay Kostenlose Lieferung fr viele Artikel!