He could be ferocious and kindhearted, outrageous or genius. However you look at it, Brian Clough's was a personality football will never forget.
Self-styled as 'Old Big 'Ead', Premier League stars wouldn't know what hit them if he marched into their dressing rooms today.
Clough specialised in miracles. Derby County and Nottingham Forest were both hoisted from the old Second Division, coaxed into the top-flight and roared to the title. He went further on the banks of the River Trent, lifting two European Cups.
A menace to the FA, a journalist's goldmine and a master of man-management, 'Cloughie' could sniff-out an inflated ego and send a player crashing back to earth as naturally as he'd make him feel 10-foot-tall.