It’s a brilliant story but according to Alan Hill whose house it apparently played out in, it was all boll0cks. I mentioned it to him at Rimmos funeral, as it was on talk sport the week or so before and he was actually quite upset by the fact that none of it was true and it was about a man who no longer had the opportunity to reply. He was adamant it didn’t happen, anyway.
I also remember reading Alan Hills claim that Saunders made up a lot of what happened for the benefit of the after dinner speech circuit and I also read that the Clough family were also not happy with him. https://www.sportsjoe.ie/football/e...n-that-brian-clough-dean-saunders-story-94424
On the proviso that no hurt is caused, “don’t let the truth get in the way of a good story”. It was a cracking good story very well told. Would you be upset if you’d been a relation of Cloughie? I didn’t feel any the worse about the greatest manager ever.
