Brian Clough
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"Brian Howard Clough", Order of the British Empire/OBE was an England/English Association football/footballer and coach (sport)/football manager.

As a player Clough was a prolific goalscorer with Middlesbrough F.C./Middlesbrough and Sunderland A.F.C./Sunderland, scoring 251 league goals from 274 starts. He also won two England national football team/England caps, both in 1959. Clough retired from playing at the age of 29, after sustaining anterior cruciate ligament damage. He remains one of the Football League's List of footballers in England and Scotland by number of league goals/highest goalscorers.

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No cheating bastards will I talk to; I will not talk to any cheating bastards!

I can't even spell spaghetti never mind talk Italian. How could I tell an Italian to get the ball? He might grab mine.

At last they've got a manager who speaks better English than they do.

Football hooligans - well, there are 92 club chairmen for a start.

On occasions I have been big-headed. I think most people are when they get in the limelight. I call myself Big Head just to remind myself not to be.

Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.

I'm dealing with my drinking problem and I have a reputation for getting things done.

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

If a chairman sacks the manager he initially appointed, he should go as well.