With Liverpool closing in the time has come for Fergie to show his Cloughieness

YOU can’t turn on the telly or open a paper this week in England without seeing Brian Clough’s face smirking at you. ‘The Damned United’ has just opened here.

With Liverpool closing in the time has come for Fergie to show his Cloughieness

Naturally Fergie has been dragged into many an article as the supposedly obvious modern comparator to the old tyrant and, for once, such media glibness isn’t completely unfounded.

Both liked a drink and, umm, both won two European Cups.

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