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Books : Provided You Don't Kiss Me: 20 Years with Brian Clough
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Provided You Don't Kiss Me: 20 Years with Brian Clough by: Duncan Hamilton List Price: £8.99 CD-Charts Price: £6.29 You Save: £2.70 (30%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback EAN: 9780007247110 ISBN: 0007247117 Label: HarperPerennial Manufacturer: HarperPerennial Publication Date: May 06, 2008 Publisher: HarperPerennial Studio: HarperPerennial Sales Rank: 972 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Will this review appear???What a Waste, to quote the man himself.Lamenting the passage of time he allowed to snub his one time friend Mr.Taylor. The Partnership they both enjoyed went the way so many do as one takes the other for granted or rifts occur and eventually parts them. Humble beginnings saw them reach for the sky shooting for the top with unerring accuracy. It's ironic that his short time at Leeds was over shadowed by his predecessor, Revie. Clough felt his omnipresence like a resident ghost but this would also be the legacy he left at Forest. I also feel that what Clough despised in Revie was a reflection of his own failings. Clough accused Revie of cheating with bribery of referees but when you read about a suitcase full of money..around £15,000 ... Read More: Rating: - GeniusThis book is fantastic. Not a biography, not exactly a memoir, but instead a series of reflections of twenty years spent with Ol Big Ead himself. Clough was a one off - brilliant, impossible, bonkers, infuriating, despicable, loveable, untameable. He took a nothing provincial club and went and won the European Cup. Twice. Unbelieveable. And this book does the man justice. Crucially, it also does Peter Taylor justice; describing their symbiotic partnership. It also brings back a real nostalgia for the times when footballers weren't pampered prima donnas earning £150k a week. They liked a pint, and a fag, when apprentices had to clean the pros boots, and the game was simpler, less bloated. And when there was room for real characters. ... Read More: Rating: - The best of the Clough booksJust when you thought everything that could be written about Brian Clough had been written, along comes Duncan Hamilton and trumps the lot of them. There are very few, if any, people that stayed with Clough throughout his time at Forest, and no one had the access to Cloughie that Hamilton enjoyed. To say the book is about Clough, however, is a bit misleading. It's more about his relationship with Hamilton, and how he plays the father figure to the young Nottingham Evening Post journalist. One review criticises the book for going into Clough's more unsavoury characteristics - the drink, the bullying, the whole treatment of Peter Taylor - but I applaud Hamilton for this. In revealing Clough's flaws, you see the vulnerability of the man, making ... Read More: Rating:  - A Big Story...Excellent, straightforward sports biography, distinguished by Hamilton's closeness to his subject and the resulting intimacy of the portrait. No tricks, no fiction or imagined scenes, just sensitive writing and informed analysis of the Clough career and of a very different time in British football - a big enough story in its own right to require very little embroidery. Duncan Hamilton makes no bones about how fortunate he was to be allowed unparalleled access to the force of nature that was Brian Clough. The portrait that emerges seems to come from something for which 'love' is maybe the only appropriate word; it's to Hamilton's credit that it never seems like obsession as, throughout, he is remarkably clear-eyed about Clough's weaknesses as ... Read More: Rating: - His favourite word was`s*ithouse`!This is one of the most enjoyable books I have ever read. I am old enough to remember Clough at his managerial peak in the seventies. What he managed to achieve at two relatively small clubs will never be repeated. Also, I had often wondered why he and his friend/assistant Peter Taylor fell out and Duncan Hamilton explains the whole sorry tale. Do yourself a favour and buy this book. |
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