Football salutes Clough the legend

Footall Association chairman Geoff Thompson described Brian Clough’s death as “a great loss to the game” as tributes poured in for the managerial legend.

The former Nottingham Forest and Derby County boss, who won back-to-back European Cups with Forest in 1979 and 1980, died earlier today aged 69 at Derby City Hospital, where he had been suffering from stomach cancer.