Now then, young man

Brian Clough has died. Over on Crooked Timber, Chris Bertram provides us with one of his greatest quotes (that I've got on a Philosophy Football shirt somewhere) and a link to a tribute site.

I can remember one of the more pleasant General Meetings we had at Swansea Union when I was a student, just after he'd been sacked by Nottingham Forest. By the end of the afternoon, it was officially Union policy that Clough should be reinstated at Forest and be appointed England manager, while we asked the NUS to call a national pro-Clough march. We did send a fax to NUS pointing this out, but they ignored it. Perhaps the SWP would have been better?

'Neither Venables nor Hoddle, but International Cloughism'. That's a slogan.

I heard Clough on Five Live about a year ago, discussing his all-time XI. I can't remember the composition of the side, save that it had Tom Finney in it, but there was another great Cloughism from that. Like most managers of his time he'd often be confronted by fans after the game insisting that striker X was rubbish and they could have scored all the chances he'd missed that day. 'If that's the case, young man.' Clough would say to them. 'I suggest you find a team to play for, as you could be making £90,000 a week.'