Brian Clough
Brian Clough, the United Kingdom forward, made 62 appearances for Sunderland. He found the net 58 times, averaging 0.94 goals per game. That return marks him out as one of the club's more prolific scorers in our records. His most prolific season in our data was 1962-63, with 56 goals.
Brian Howard Clough ( / k l ʌ f / KLUF ; 21 March 1935 – 20 September 2004) was an English football player and manager , primarily known for his successes as a manager with Derby County and Nottingham Forest . He won the European Cup twice with Nottingham Forest and is one of four managers to have won the English league with two different clubs. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest managers of all time. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Charismatic, outspoken and often controversial, his achievements with Derby and Forest, two clubs with little prior history of success, are rated among the greatest in football history. [ 4 ] His teams were also noted for playing attractive football and for their good sportsmanship. [ 5 ] Despite applying several times and being a popular choice for the job, he was never appointed England manager and has been dubbed the "greatest manager England never had". [ 6 ] Clough played as a striker for Middlesbrough and Sunderland, scoring 251 league goals in 274 matches; he remains one of the Football League 's highest goalscorers . He won two England caps. He entered management after his playing career was ended by a serious injury at the age of 29. As a manager, Clough was closely associated with Peter Taylor , who served as his assistant manager at several clubs in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. He is also remembered for giving frequent radio and television interviews in which he made controversial remarks about players, other managers and the overall state of the game. In 1965, he took the manager's job at Fourth Division Hartlepools United and appointed P — Wikipedia
- Position
- FW
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Birthplace
- Middlesbrough
- Born
- 21 Mar 1935
- Height
- 178 cm
In July 1961, one of Clough's transfer requests was finally accepted and he moved to Boro's local rivals Sunderland for £55,000 scoring 34 goals in the 1961–62 season . With Sunderland, Clough scored a total of 63 goals in 74 matches. [ 18 ] In the 1962–63 season, Clough had scored 24 league goals by December as Sunderland pushed for promotion. In a match against Bury at Roker Park on 26 December 1962, in icy conditions and torrential rain, Clough was put through on goal and collided with goalkeeper, Chris Harker . Clough tore the medial and cruciate ligaments in his knee, an injury which in that era usually ended a player's career. He returned two years later, but could manage only three games and then retired from playing at the age of 29. [ 20 ] Clough's manager at Sunderland was Alan Brown , a disciplinarian credited as a big influence on Clough. Brown inspired fear, imposed a strict code of conduct and would fine players for minor transgressions. He once upbraided Clough for talking to a friend during a training session. Such traits would later be adopted by Clough himself when he became a manager. [ 21 ] Of the players who have scored over 200 goals in the English leagues, Clough has the highest goals-per-game ratio of 0.916, [ 22 ] and has the second highest ratio in the list that includes the Scottish leagues . — Wikipedia
- Brian Clough — 56 goals in 1962-63 — One of the best single-season hauls in our records (56 apps).
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Appearances counted as matches started or come on as substitute. Figures from recorded season totals — we hold no match-by-match data for this era.
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