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Yeah. Craig worked in Simons shops, rapidly proved himself and was made assistant manager. I was like his little sidekick. We have been clear about that continuously. He came close once. Independence is one of their greatest strengths, but sometimes they're overly frank with others. Kevin suggested they split the cash, and Craig agreed. But Craig Bromfield seems a decent person a gentle, empathic man who made a terrible mistake and has paid for it since. I hope that I haven't. my wife certainly didn't!" . They just crushed your enjoyment of it.. Over the next decade, during half of which he continued to play a regular role on the field, Clough took Burton up from the seventh tier of the English football league system to the brink of promotion to League Two. Memories to cherish. "Growing up around heroes and having amazing experiences. By this time, he had been capped 14 times by England at senior level, but failed to score. But, like Clough, they had chutzpah by the bucketload and huge smiles. Sport. "I broke down in the office and could not stop crying for 10 to 15 minutes. ", Life with the Cloughs in the Derbyshire village of Quarndon was idyllic with occasional reminders of the fame that once saw Clough called out by Muhammad Ali. His looks and personality come from his mother, Barbara. When Craig was 13, Clough invited the boys to stay with his family for a couple of days in Quarndon, a well-to-do village in Derbyshire. These incidents led PFA Chief Gordon Taylor to criticise Clough, saying: "It cannot be appropriate to criticise your team in such a way in public. We had carte blanche, access to everything the games room, Nigels room, the waterbed, videos, clothes. Not weird, no. It was the start of a remarkable relationship. [11] When City were relegated to Division Two at the end of the 199798 season, Clough was given a free transfer and his senior football career was over at the age of 32. Thats not happening here now. "I don't know if it selfish but that might help me if I am able to contribute to one or two kids having a better life. Cloughs younger son, Nigel, took him aside and said they were suspending him from work for a week. 'Be Good, Love Brian: Growing up with Brian Clough' by Craig Bromfield can be purchased online through Amazon Prime and in all good book stores from November 11. He reads too a John Grisham novel at the moment as he cant stop thinking about work long enough to concentrate on the TV. Safety in the Championship was not confirmed until the penultimate game of the season against Charlton Athletic, with a 10 victory. He feels empty, he says partly because of the betrayal, partly because he misses the Cloughs so much. Copy and paste this as text into your genealogy software or website He won 14 caps for England between 1989-1993. It was a life transformed. Well, there is one box so far left unticked. Nigel Cloughs age is 56. After a mixed start to the 201314 season, Clough was sacked on 28 September after 3 defeats in eight days, the final of which was a 10 defeat to local rivals Nottingham Forest with Derby 14th in the table after 9 games. [29], Derby suffered a major shock in the FA Cup, losing to Crawley Town 21. But having a famous surname and a good c.v. doesnt always get you where you want to go in football. What kind of person am I? He answers his own question. He was appointed as manager of Sheffield United a month later, guiding them out of the relegation zone and taking the club to FA Cup and League Cup semi-finals. I want it to be the beautiful act that they did. Nigel Clough is a Pisces and his 57th birthday is in, The 56-year-old British was born in the Generation X and the Year of the Horse. It had a psychologically profound effect on me.". The results came during discussions over Clough's contract which was due to expire at the end of the season[38] with Forest allegedly interested in securing their former-player's services. Kenny Swain, the European Cup winning full-back, gave them a fiver and told the two brothers to return in the morning for autographs. My dad used to tease me that I would never beat him at anything, he laughs. I have moved back up to Sunderland to live which is probably a mistake. They were welcomed into Cloughs family, treated like little brothers by Cloughs three children daughter Elizabeth, oldest brother Simon, who owned two newsagents and a card shop, and Nigel, who had just broken into the Forest first team. Maybe it was the fact that we got on so well with the family that it turned into a regular occurrence.". 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No kind, no decent person would do what I did.. Instead of reporting it to Simon, he was persuaded not only to remain silent but take a cut, trying to justify it to himself on the basis that they were being underpaid. He won 14 caps for England between 1989-1993. Almost three decades on, it is he, more than anyone else, who has been affected by the experience. However, the continuing effectiveness of Fowler and Rush in attack meant that Clough made only a handful of appearances for the Reds in 199495, and was not in their League Cup winning side. The visits became more regular. Clough is just back from walking the dog. The books not written for me to become famous or successful. The first time, a few months later, Clough had just rewritten his will and Craig had got a mention. [42], Derby suffered mixed form through the remainder of the season. Clough's younger son, Nigel, took him aside and said they were suspending him from work for a week. Brian Clough with his wife Barbara, at Burton Albion's game versus Hartlepool United to watch the team managed by their son Nigel, during their FA. Crap decision. Soon after, Sunderland drew Forest at home in the League Cup. He stepped down in May 2020, and returned to work in November at Mansfield Town. Clough asked what was wrong and Craig told him. As for Gillian, she forced Craig to commit fraud on her behalf dropping him off at the post office so he could sign a false name on a stolen pension book and collect the money on behalf of his auntie. I changed as a person. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. One day he discovered 300 in bags of 1 coins under Kevins mattress. Seventeen years on from Clough's death, their first meeting in Seaburn back in October 1984 looms large in Craig's life. The Bromfield boys were skinny, impoverished and abused. For the first time, we felt loved and special, Craig says. Clough was Forest's top scorer in 199293 with ten goals in the new Premier League, but Forest were relegated, following which his father Brian retired after 18 years as manager. He doesnt talk to the Cloughs when he goes to the matches; he doesnt even tell them he is there. The lockdown YouTube comedian paints a picture of Mok as an abusive wife, and he makes dirty jokes about her treatment of him and the divorce itself. "Underneath it all he was normal. Soaked to the skin on a freezing night at Oldham last Wednesday, Clough was nevertheless wearing a grin that tells you why people like him keep returning to management. I had no education. Its written as a cry for forgiveness from them., Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. He was dismissed in May 2015 and returned to Burton in December, leading them to promotion to the Championship for the first time in the club's history in May 2016 and the League Cup semi-final in January 2019. 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