A Boro Legend Passes Away

Last updated : 22 September 2004 By Reggie Holdsworth

He had a liver transplant last year and was an inpatient at the hospital. His family was with him when he died.

Cloughie made his name on Teesside by scoring 204 goals in 222 games for Boro before moving to Sunderland where his career was cut short through injury.

He moved into management and will be remembered for the man who won the title with unfashionable Derby County and Nottingham Forest, where he spent 18 years.

He took Forest to the highest level in club football by winning the European Cup in successive seasons. He won just about every honour in the game as a manager, except the FA Cup, which eluded him.

Only last week the campaign to have Cloughie knighted was at the Riverside collecting signatures for the great man.

Brian Clough Factfile:

1935: Born March 21 in Grove Hill, Middlesbrough.
1952: Joins Boro as apprentice.
1955: Makes his League debut in a game against Barnsley.
1958: Scores 5 against Brighton as Boro win 9-0.
1959: Wins England caps against Wales at Ninian Park and Sweden at Wembley.
1961: Signs for north-east rivals Sunderland for £45,000.
1962: Knee injury end career.
1965: At 29, becomes youngest manager in the Football League with Fourth Division Hartlepool United.
1967: Becomes Derby manager.
1969: Derby win Division Two title.
1972: Derby win Division One title.
1973: Guides Derby to the semi-finals of the European Cup.
Resigns from Derby, with assistant Peter Taylor, after long dispute with club directors. Becomes Brighton manager.
1974: Appointed manager of Leeds, but sacked after 44 days because of player unrest.
1975: Joins Nottingham Forest.
1977: Forest promoted to First Division.
1978: Forest win the League Cup and become Division One Champions. Named Manager of the Year.
Forest win the Charity Shield.
1979: Signs first £1m player, Trevor Francis from Birmingham.
Forest retain League Cup but finish second in Division One
Crowned champions of Europe beating Malmo 1-0 in the European Cup final.
1980: Forest are beaten in League Cup final by Wolves.
Retain European Cup beating Hamburg 1-0 in Madrid.
1989: Forest retain League Cup beating Luton 3-1.
Celebrates his 1,000th league game as a manager.
1990: Forest retain League Cup, again!
1991: Beaten by Tottenham in the FA Cup final - the only major domestic title he had not won.
Receives an OBE in the Queens' Birthday Honours.
1992: Forest win the Zenith Data Cup but lose the League Cup final at Wembley against Manchester United.
1993: Football's longest-serving boss, celebrates 18th anniversary in charge at the City Ground with Forest bottom of the Premier League. Announces he plans to retire at the end of the season. Retires as Forest are relegated from the top flight.
2002: Undergoes a liver transplant.
2003: Made an honorary Freeman of Derby and given the freedom of the city.
2004: Dies, September 20 in Derby City Hospital.