So we're edging nearer to our first month back at the helm of Day Dedication, and I guess its fitting that today goes to someone who should have had more than a month at the greatest job in English football.
Again, with me Post-Its, I managed to write down three words next to his name. Today, it just, simply, said 'BRIAN CLOUGH - Ol' Big 'Ed'.' And I think that's all it needs to say.
Dad and I watched another film this evening - The Damned United. I've read the book, and it was a brilliant, brilliant film. I'm shocked by how good Michael Sheen was in it. But it doesn't take away the fact that Leeds were the dirtiest scum in the First Division at the time. And everyone knows that.
But Sheen portrayed Clough in a way that we saw just how warm his personality was, and how much football owes to him now. Its very tempting to say that Michael Sheen actually turns this film into the best sports film ever made.
But still, Clough is, in his own words, the greatest England manager they never had. He was a master of the art of tactics, and technique. He played some beautiful football, and is the reason behind Nottingham Forest becoming European Champions two years running.
And his legacy lives on in the way football is played now. If only we had a couple more Cloughies in the game now.
BRIAN CLOUGH, and to some extent, MICHAEL SHEEN, you are the Day Dedicatee for Thursday 29th July 2010.
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