Book Title.  With Clough by Taylor

Author/Editor.  Peter Taylor

Publisher.  Sidgwick & Jackson

Publishing Date.  1980

Edition.  1^st

Hard Cover/Soft Cover.  Hard with d/j

Pages.  201

Condition.  Book handled/used but generally in good condition with expected wear/discolouring for age, pages lightly creased in places, binding a little loose and boards worn/rubbed/discoloured along edges/corners – pages and text clean.  D/j in fair/good condition, worn/rubbed, scratched/indented throughout, creased and with some scuffing, tears and small loss/colour loss to edges/corners (visible in photograph) – price clipped.  Despite stated flaws d/j more or less complete, text all perfectly legible and overall condition still decent and presented as well as possible in a protective cover.

Description of Contents.  Two young footballers – one a novice centre-forward, the other a £3,500 goalkeeper – met as opponents in a practice match more than twenty years ago (at time of publication) and sowed the seeds of a partnership destined to revolutionise and enliven soccer management.  Outrageously successful, sometimes simply outrageous; that is Brian Clough and Peter Taylor.  Millions of headlines chart their progress, but the full, inside story has never been told until now.  Only Peter Taylor has the knowledge and detachment to tell it.  It is a story milestoned by trophies, record transfers, bust-ups, law suits, sackings, public protest meetings and civic receptions.  Every armchair fan imagines that he knows Clough, but no one in football knows him as thoroughly as Taylor.  He is the star-finder of the pair, and the older, calmer one who restrains Clough when that mesmeric personality surges into overdrive.  Taylor writes: ‘I always knew that two men, the right two, could build up a club quicker than one’.  Clough and Taylor took over two apparently deadbeat clubs and won the Football League championship with each of them, a managerial feat unequalled since before the war.  They were the first to pay £1,000,000 for a player; the first to win the Football League Cup in successive seasons; the first to command such fierce loyalty that a First Division team threatened to strike when they resigned.  Here is the warm and often astonishing story of how they did it.  Brian Clough and Peter Taylor, in the eleven years from 1969, won seven major cups, two championships of the Football League, two promotions to the First Division and the FA Charity Shield.  Uniquely since the war, their successes were achieved with two clubs, Derby County and Nottingham Forest, two unfashionable, struggling Second Division clubs before they turned them into winners against all odds.  Their first success was the Second Division championship with Derby County in 1969, followed next year by a 4-1 victory in the final of the Watney Cup against the famous Manchester United team starring George Best, Denis Law and Bobby Charlton.  They won the League championship for Derby in 1972 followed immediately by the Texaco Cup.  The Anglo-Scottish Cup in 1976 was their first trophy for Forest.  It was followed by promotion in 1977 to the First Division and then three seasons of unparalleled triumph when they won the Football League Cup twice, the League championship, the FA Charity Shield and, the crowning glory, the European Cup twice.  The book was written by Taylor without the knowledge of Clough and was the beginning of the rift between the two greats.

Photography.  B/W

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