Provided You Don't Kiss Me: 20 Years with Brian Clough
by Duncan Hamilton
|
List Price: ££8.99
Our Price: ££3.38
Your Save: £ 0.00 ( % )
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
Manufacturer: HarperPerennial
|
Average Customer Rating:  
|
|
Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780007247110
ISBN: 0007247117
Label: HarperPerennial
Publication Date: 2008-05-06
Publisher: HarperPerennial
Studio: HarperPerennial
|
|
|
|
|
|
Spotlight customer reviews:
|
Customer Rating:
Summary: Will this review appear???
Comment:
What a Waste, to quote the man himself.Lamenting the passage of time he allowed to snub his one time friend Mr.Taylor. The Partnership they both enjoyed went the way so many do as one takes the other for granted or rifts occur and eventually parts them. Humble beginnings saw them reach for the sky shooting for the top with unerring accuracy.
It's ironic that his short time at Leeds was over shadowed by his predecessor, Revie. Clough felt his omnipresence like a resident ghost but this would also be the legacy he left at Forest. I also feel that what Clough despised in Revie was a reflection of his own failings. Clough accused Revie of cheating with bribery of referees but when you read about a suitcase full of money..around £15,000 then their traits were quite similar.
A compulsive read which Hamilton has more than done justice to.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Genius
Comment: This book is fantastic. Not a biography, not exactly a memoir, but instead a series of reflections of twenty years spent with Ol Big Ead himself. Clough was a one off - brilliant, impossible, bonkers, infuriating, despicable, loveable, untameable. He took a nothing provincial club and went and won the European Cup. Twice. Unbelieveable.
And this book does the man justice. Crucially, it also does Peter Taylor justice; describing their symbiotic partnership. It also brings back a real nostalgia for the times when footballers weren't pampered prima donnas earning £150k a week. They liked a pint, and a fag, when apprentices had to clean the pros boots, and the game was simpler, less bloated. And when there was room for real characters. And this is a loving but seemingly honest portrait of the biggest character of them all. Demands to be read alongside "The Damned United".
Customer Rating:
Summary: The best of the Clough books
Comment: Just when you thought everything that could be written about Brian Clough had been written, along comes Duncan Hamilton and trumps the lot of them. There are very few, if any, people that stayed with Clough throughout his time at Forest, and no one had the access to Cloughie that Hamilton enjoyed.
To say the book is about Clough, however, is a bit misleading. It's more about his relationship with Hamilton, and how he plays the father figure to the young Nottingham Evening Post journalist. One review criticises the book for going into Clough's more unsavoury characteristics - the drink, the bullying, the whole treatment of Peter Taylor - but I applaud Hamilton for this. In revealing Clough's flaws, you see the vulnerability of the man, making him more human and endearing in the process, rather than the quote machine that others writers have presented him as. Hamilton never pretends to know what Clough was thinking - as David Peace did in the inferior, over-rated Damned United - and indeed Clough's unpredictability is a central theme to the book. Hamilton simply presents the facts as he saw them.
There will never be another Brian Clough, more's the pity, but Duncan Hamilton has provided us with a fitting testament to the man's career. The book is as good as sports writing gets, and it was fully deserving of its William Hill Sports Book of the Year award. Cloughie's character and legend are so strong that there will be dozens of books written about him in the years to come, but none will come close to this fine work.
Customer Rating: 
Summary: A Big Story...
Comment: Excellent, straightforward sports biography, distinguished by Hamilton's closeness to his subject and the resulting intimacy of the portrait. No tricks, no fiction or imagined scenes, just sensitive writing and informed analysis of the Clough career and of a very different time in British football - a big enough story in its own right to require very little embroidery.
Duncan Hamilton makes no bones about how fortunate he was to be allowed unparalleled access to the force of nature that was Brian Clough. The portrait that emerges seems to come from something for which 'love' is maybe the only appropriate word; it's to Hamilton's credit that it never seems like obsession as, throughout, he is remarkably clear-eyed about Clough's weaknesses as well as his astonishing triumphs. The excellent and detailed accounts of how Clough took not one but two poor-to-middling English clubs to the heights of European glory (a feat that one struggles to imagine being repeated today) are balanced by an understanding of his very human insecurities and frailties, and by an increasingly dominant subtext - a (literally) sobering account of how low even a character as powerful as Clough could be laid by alcohol.
Customer Rating:
Summary: His favourite word was`s*ithouse`!
Comment: This is one of the most enjoyable books I have ever read. I am old enough to remember Clough at his managerial peak in the seventies. What he managed to achieve at two relatively small clubs will never be repeated. Also, I had often wondered why he and his friend/assistant Peter Taylor fell out and Duncan Hamilton explains the whole sorry tale. Do yourself a favour and buy this book.
|
|
|
- Ask about this education product "Provided You Don't Kiss Me: 20 Years with Brian Clough" in the forum
- Give review on this education product "Provided You Don't Kiss Me: 20 Years with Brian Clough" in the forum
- Search related information in the forum
|
|
|
|
|
| OOEN Referral Program Spotlight |
 | | Dover Business College
Advance your business, healthcare, or technology career with practical training from Dover Business College. Our entire faculty is dedicated to your success. We work with you to help you choose the career that’s best for you, and help you land the right job with job placement assistance, interviewing and resume-building skills, and more. Take only the classes you need to succeed at your chosen career, and learn the practical skills employers demand. | |  | |
 | | ECPI
A tech degree from ECPI means success in the real world. For over 36 years, ECPI has taught courses that focus on the skills employers need. Accredited programs such as Networking, Software Development, or Electronics are available. ECPI has locations in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and online classes. Complete your Tech degree in as little as 16 months. | | | |
 | | Eastwick Colleges
Interested in a career in nursing, business, allied health, ultrasound, welding or electronics? Eastwick Colleges, including HoHoKus Schools and RETS Institute, offer five convenient New Jersey locations for your career or future degree. With a commitment to your success, Eastwick Colleges offer practical, skill-focused programs, as well as tutoring services at no additional cost. Post-graduation career placement services work with you to find the job that fits your lifestyle. Financial aid is available for those who qualify. Take advantage of Eastwick Colleges’ reputation for excellence in career training and placement. | | | |
|
What is OOEN Referral Program Spotlight?
OOEN provides comprehensive listing of online courses, degree programs, colleges and universities.
Also OOEN provides links to their information request pages; if you want to find out more about any course,
degree program, college or university, you can just fill out the form linked from OOEN and request information.
It is completely free for anyone to request information, and you can request information from as many colleges
and universities as you'd like. We list featured schools and their brief information
in this "OOEN Referral Program Spotlight" section of OOEN Store for Education,
in case that you are interested in taking a class or two or even pursuing degree program
through these featured schools.
|
|
|
