Dean Saunders on signing for Clough

[Wolfox]

Very very funny....

 

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/how-drunken-brian-clough-tried-11842620

[Sambiasso]

Heard this live and had me in fits of laughter. Well worth a listen 

[Beliall]

Brilliant

[Darkon84]

 brilliant. Love a good story!

[Fox92]

Stories about the likes of Clough are brilliant. Just wouldn't happen nowadays would it.

[m4DD0gg]

When football was football and not full of marketing caaants and shifty agents.

[Sharpe's Fox]

Very funny but a load of bollocks I'm afraid.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/sep/07/brian-clough-dean-saunders-nottingham-forest

 

“It’s a good after-dinner speech but unfortunately most of it isn’t true,” he told me. “Brian wasn’t drunk, he wasn’t crawling on his hands and knees, he didn’t sit facing a wall, he didn’t mention the carpet once and there was no flowerpot… it just feels like he [Saunders] has put this story through a very imaginative scriptwriter and this is what they’ve come up with.”

All rather awkward, I’m sure you will agree. “Brian liked a drink and we all know he had a situation towards the end but he wasn’t drunk that day at all,” Hill continued. “He didn’t do the things that have been said, and I’ve no idea why he [Saunders] would say them. Brian arrived with Archie Gemmill. ‘Hello, Mr Clough,’ Saunders said. ‘Son, call me Brian,’ he replied. It was all perfectly normal. He didn’t really want to speak to an agent, that’s correct, and we were told it was going to be difficult because Saunders had already agreed a deal with Everton. ‘It won’t be difficult,’ Brian told him, ‘we’ll just offer you more money than they have.’ Then off he went up the garden to smell the lavender.

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“When he’d gone, Saunders told me Everton had offered him £8,000. “A month?’ I asked. ‘No, a week.’ Crikey. I told Brian and his reaction was ‘Bloody hell, that’s more than me, our Nigel and Pearcey get together.’ First of all, though, he wanted me to do something. ‘Smell this flower,’ he said, ‘it’s beautiful.’

“After half an hour Saunders said he would talk it through with his wife and went home. Then at 9pm he rang to say Liverpool had matched our offer and he would rather go there because his father used to play for them. So that’s it. Brian wasn’t drunk, and it’s not fair. There are all sorts of different Brian Clough stories – I tell some myself, but not derogatory ones, not ones like this.”

 

Maybe Dean Saunders could get a job doing Jackanory?

[Electric Yetis]

Dean Saunders is one of the biggest fools around. Search for some of his quotes on google. How he ever got a managerial job is a mystery.

[Soar Fox]

It's quite sad that Clough was clearly suffering from alcoholism and people are telling stories about him being drunk in the middle of the day & finding it funny. 

 

Though it has come from Dean Saunders so it's probably a load of rubbish.

[Kitchandro]

3 hours ago, pds said:

Dean Saunders is one of the biggest fools around. Search for some of his quotes on google. How he ever got a managerial job is a mystery.

Agreed. His personality reminds me of Steve McClaren.

[Beliall]

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

[yorkie1999]

I went to a john robertson gentlemens evening once which was mainly about Clough, and it seemed the more booze that was had, the more elaborate the stories became, not that i was bothered because it was a freebie with work.