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By The Scout
With former protégés like Martin O'Neill, Roy Keane and Stuart Pearce managing at the top-levels
of English football, Brian Clough's name continues to swirl around the game that he was a part of
for the bulk of his life. Often the most mentioned aspect of Clough's career in football is that he
took an unfashionable, regional clubs like Nottingham Forest to two successive European Cup
victories.
It is common for football writers and pundits to heap praise upon players and managers whose media
profile far outweighs their achievements or abilities. It is, however, rare for inappropriate
superlatives to survive the test of time. In a rather strange inversion of a common assumption
regarding the veracity of historical accounts, the more time that separates the lauding of a player
or manager from their heyday, the more accurate the description is likely to be.
Remarkably, srael have just beaten Russia 2-1 in Tel Aviv. So it's now quite possible England will
sneak into next summer's European Championships after all, and the last week of handwringing over
the quality of England's footballers will be forgotten and replaced by gibberish about the "golden
generation". Then we'll lose on penalty kicks in the [.
