It was half a century last week since Brian Clough took over at Nottingham Forest. Was there ever a manager in the history of the game who had a more dramatic effect in his first five years of being in charge?
Promotion, a league title at the first time of asking, two League Cups, two European Cups and a Super Cup and, as everyone in these parts will tell you, all done with five players from the team he took over languishing in the old Second Division. No oligarch or oil-state money for Clough, who did it the old-fashioned way, with brilliant recruitment and man-management.