Some of the postings and reviews I’ve read have either forgotten or not mentioned this. Please remember when you do go and see it that most of what happens is from the imagination of the author – and subsequently the screenwriters.
And by the looks of the trailer below it might be one of the better football movies.

Click here to watch the Trailer

But this post isn’t about that, or about his 44 days at Leeds.

This is a blatant attempt to pull some traffic here because of the interest in the current subject.

Cloughy was one of those who easily divided opinions. To some he was an arrogant big mouth. To others he was the best man never to be the manger the England team. I am with the former and although I recognise that he was one of the best English managers, he wasn’t for the top job.

Club-wise he was outstanding and those of use longer in the tooth will remember his days at Forest.

Again I’m not going to write all that much about him because that’s not what F&M does. There are plenty of other places which will fill your needs on that.

We are here for the music and about a few tunes done about him »

The Toy Dolls did this one in 1989 about the incident when a fan ran onto the pitch (after Forest beat QPR) and Brian gave him a cuff round the ear:

[See post to listen to audio] » The Toy Dolls – Cloughy Is A Bootboy - Lyrics Cloughy’s Lads Are Full O’ Gloom Coz Cloughy’s In The Changin’ Room Why Can’t He Nick Off & Leave Them Be? He Screams & Yells & Just Because Cloughy Knows That He’s The Boss Cloughy’s Rough & Tough Cloughy’s Barmy Cloughy’s In A Huff & Tense Cloughy’s Teeth Begin To Clench A Cloughy Fan Asks For His Autograph “Can Yer Sign This Brian?” He Nuts Him First & Smacks Him Next Nobody Makes Cloughy Vexed Cloughy Is The Chief Cloughy’s The Gaffa Cloughy Is A Football Hooligan Now Cloughy’s Only At His Prime With His Fist In Yer Nose When The Referee Blows Full Time Brian Brian Kicks & Slaps & He Shouts Oi! Brian Brian Cloughy Is A Bootboy The Judge Tells Cloughy To Keep Calm He’s Up For Grievous Bodily Harm Cloughy Stands And Begins To Yell Cloughy Must Have A Screw Loose Coz Cloughy Says He’s Gonna Cruc Ify The Cops When He Gets Out The Cell Cloughy Is A Football Hooligan Cloughy Is A Football Hooligan He Kicks & Slaps, He Thumps & Cracks He Nuts & Smacks And Shouts Oi!

Next up is one that I don’t have clear info on. I’m sure that the name of the artists and the title of the song have got swapped, but I may be wrong. Some sampling of Brian talking included in:

[See post to listen to audio] Give Us A Kiss – Sorted For Clough

Lastly, for now is this one which was done around the time of the 1991 FA Cup Final… the one cup he could never win…

[See post to listen to audio] » Fat and Frantic – Brian!

- Songs above provided by Through the seasons before us – an NFFC Blog.
- Next up with be the conclusion to this journey of Clough with a couple involving the man himself.

I wanted to post this when they finally got the drop, but Derby beat me to it by being the first Prem team to get relegated in March.

Now they have six 5 games left to get five point in order to avoid taking Mick McCarthy’s Sunderland record of scoring the lowest amount of points in one season.

But let us not be downhearted. One total catastrophic season like this is only the beginning.

They’ve been bought out and are officially now a Mickey Mouse club.

But their plans for a pre-season tour of the USA had to be cancelled. They are going to Holland instead.

One very good thing though is they are taking Robbie Savage with them. So always look on the bright side eh ?

The related music today comes from Rockin’ Johnny Austin who sings on this old and rare recording which mentions Kevin Hector and young Roy McFarland. Guessing by the name checks the song is from the late 60′s when these two were playing for them.

» Rocking Johnny Austin – Going Back To Derby

It is obvious that the more interesting game taking place tomorrow is the Scotland do or die match and the search terms bear that out with everybody looking for Scotland songs but more specifically one song which in my opinion is a footie/music and comedy classic. Sorry there Rod it’s not about you. Or about the Krankies, which is more horror than comedy and puts a bit of a sour note on the history. I am talking about…

B.A Robertson, John Gordon Sinclair (and extra information I just found) Jim Watt (world champion boxer), Alan Wells (Olympics 100 meter champion and Georgina Kearney (Miss Scotland), as well as the 1982 Scotland World Cup Squad all sing together on:
» We Have A Dream

- The next item most searched and listened to has a touch of the Krankies to it as well and I can only assume you are listening because you like to inflict pain onto yourselves:

Jess Conrad why do you hate us so ? What did the P.E teacher do to you at school ? Why do you want to take your revenge out on every football supporter because of some dark memory in your past ? Why do we have to live your nightmare ?

And finally in other footie news – an item about Derby County who at the moment are going for Mick McCarthy/Sunderland’s EPL record as the worst. team. ever.

An American company is looking into Derby with a view to investment and takeover. (Why pick a club who are probably guaranteed relegation is beyond me but anyway…) The name of this company is Shamrock Holdings, who are owned and run by billionaire Roy Disney, nephew of Walt.

Yes, Derby County really will be a Mickey Mouse team.