Brian Howard Clough, OBE (21 March, 1935 – 20 September, 2004) was an English footballer and subsequently football manager, most notable for his success with Derby County and Nottingham Forest. His achievement of winning back-to-back European Cups with a provincial side - Nottingham Forest - is considered to be one of the greatest in football history.[citation needed]

Charismatic, outspoken, and often controversial, Clough is widely considered to be one of the greatest managers of the English Game and the greatest English manager never to manage the England team. On being asked his attitude towards the England selectors he replied, "I’m sure the England selectors thought if they took me on and gave me the job, I’d want to run the show. They were shrewd because that’s exactly what I would have done".