Provided You Dont Kiss Me

One day youll write a book about this club. Or, more to the point, about me. So you may as well know what Im thinking and save it up for later when it wont do any harm to anyone. Brian Cloughs twenty years as Nottingham Forest manager were an unpredictable mixture of success, failure, fall-outs and alcoholism. Duncan Hamilton, initiated as a young journalist into the Brian Clough empire, was there to see it all. In this strikingly intimate biography William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2007 Hamilton paints a vivid portrait of one of footballs greatest managers: from Nottingham Forests double European Cup triumph to the torturous breakdown of relations at the club and Cloughs descent into alcoholism. Sad, joyous and personal, Hamiltons account of life with Brian Clough is a touching tribute to a brilliant man.