Originally Posted by
WBA1955
How would he fare in the modern game? Would he be able to manage a big club?
Clough or Cluffy as he was sometimes known excelled at taking over small clubs like Derby and Forest and getting them to punch above their weight.
When he went to Leeds who were a big club then, (but aren't anymore, and are not likely to be again, not in our lifetimes anyway,) he failed.
Clough was used to getting his own way by bullying chairmen and players, and though it worked fine at clubs like Derby and Forest who were starved of success and had to grin and bear it, he couldn't do it at Leeds with their household names and runners up in most competition's record.
So, how would he have got on today at a club like Man City or Arsenal? This topic cropped up in a thread on our board, and it makes you wonder if he could have coped with the wages, players agents and tough chairmen of todays game, the managers are also a much higher quality breed today too.
I don't think a sight of him on the pitch clipping supporters round the earole would go down well in todays take offence at anything world.
Thoughts.