The overall result of Clough's career in league management was

Played 1,140
Won 505
Drawn 291
Lost 344
Goals For 1678
Goals Against 1298

Between 1967-68 and 1971-72 he took Derby County from the bottom of Div 2 to the Div 1 Championship, and one season after that took Derby to the semi-final of the European Cup - a feat then unheard of for medium-size UK club.

In 1976-77 he took Nottingham Forest to Div 1, where they won the title at the first attempt. Forest also won the League Cup that season. The following year they won the European Cup, and won it again the year after. From then until his retirement Forest were never out of the top nine except once when they finished 12th and in his last season when they finished 22nd and were relegated. In that same period they won the League Cup twice, were beaten finalists in the World Club championship, were runners up in the Leage Chamionship once, and finished third three times.

C-flat mentioned his goalscoring record with Middlesbrough in league games. He also scored seven goals in nine cup games with Boro, and then maintained a similar phenomenal scoring rate with Sunderland - 63 in 74 games. At the time, and for years afterwards his record of 251 goals in 274 league games looked like it would stand for all time. Maybe it's been beaten now, but the likes of Greaves, Linekar and Shearer didn't come close.

On top of all this, he supported the mineworkers throughout their year-long battle with Thatcher in 1984 - and he banned the Nottingham Evening Post from Forest's ground for several years because of its anti-union management.

As a long-time Leeds fan my one regret was that Leeds let him slip through their fingers when a players' revolt forced him out after less than three months in the manager's job in 1974.