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Clough centre in the green jumper looks on in horror from the dugout with fans sharing his pain above him as he watches his Nottingham Forest team get relegated from the Premiership. Nigel Clough was pushed by Barry Davies on his father's health in an interview in the tunnel. Davies: 'Is his health good? He doesn't seem to be a well man, it has to be said Clough: 'It is for me!
Clough: 'Not really, as long as he fills his time in well and does a bit of gardening and so on. A week earlier - and just a month after Clough Snr had been awarded the freedom of the city - he had announced he was retiring amid a backdrop of claims and counter-claims over whether his drinking was 'discrediting' the club.
On the same day, Forest suspended director Chris Wootton amid claims he ran a 'dirty-tricks campaign' and had been offering stories of Clough's alleged drinking to newspapers. Wootton denied this but insisted Clough's exit 'vindicated' him. There has been disquiet among the board for some time. Clough's lawyers threatened to sue. It was a controversial climax to a chaotic campaign.
Their handling of transfers in the summer of was a mess. It gave a glimpse of an alien world compared to the 'Wenger Out' campaigns of today.
Clough salutes the fans after returning to the pitch after they had been relegated following the defeat by Sheffield United.
The departing Clough shakes hands with a Sheffield United fan as he's given a standing ovation at the City Ground. I think we should stick with him, give the man a chance and hope they do well next year.
Soundbites from other sympathetic supporters included 'one bad season doesn't make him a bad manager', 'he's the best thing that ever happened to Nottingham' and a bemused 'I don't know what to do without him really'. A lady in a pointed Forest hat was holding back tears as she said: 'I've just taken him some flowers but they wouldn't let me give them to him because he's in the bath. So I said I could come in and scrub his back. But earlier in the week, the Forest chairman had confirmed that Clough would be retiring at the end of the season.
Clough had been talking about it for the past five years and knew his time was up. He had been irritated at the consensus that Forest were too good to go down and his inability to transform their performances.
The pain of that relegation scarred his career.
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