In this strikingly intimate biography - William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2007 - Hamilton paints a vivid portrait of one of football's greatest managers: from Nottingham Forest's double European Cup triumph to the torturous breakdown of relations at the club and Clough's descent into alcoholism. Duncan Hamilton, initiated as a young journalist into the Brian Clough empire, was there to see it all. So you may as well know what I'm thinking and save it up for later when it won't do any harm to anyone.' Brian Clough's twenty years as Nottingham Forest manager were an unpredictable mixture of success, failure, fall-outs and alcoholism. 'One day you'll write a book about this club. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition.
Sad, joyous and personal, Hamilton's account of life with Brian Clough is a touching tribute to a brilliant man.
“…It is a story of boundless genius compromised by human weakness and then dashed against the rocks in front of a voyeuristic world.Paperback. In short, Hamilton has essentially won biography writing. “Instead, he has done everything he can with it as it is, he has pushed it, refined it, stretched it, lovingly touched up every corner of it until it is almost as perfect as it can be. Macintosh writes that Hamilton doesn’t revolutionize the biography genre, he masters it: By the time he left the team in 1974, he had not just become one of soccer’s first and biggest stars, he’d fallen into an extravagant, playboy lifestyle that his fame enabled him to grasp.Īward-winning sports journalist Duncan Hamilton captures Best’s meteoric rise and fall in IMMORTAL: The Approved Biography of George Best, which Iain Macintosh reviewed for the online edition of The Daily Mirror. Fifty years ago this Saturday, George Best was a fifteen-year-old lad playing his first match for Manchester United.
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