Clough, Maxwell and Me: Explosive, the Inside Track - Hardcover

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FOR 30 years the names of Stuart Webb and Derby County Football Club were inseparable. While, in turn, Brian Clough and Dave Mackay may have steered the Rams to become the best team in England, without the off-the-field stability that Webb brought to an often rocky boat, none of the success on the pitch would have been possible. From the April day in 1970, when he arrived at the Baseball Ground to find the club banned from European football amidst an administrative shambles, through the High Court battle to save the Rams from extinction in their centenary year, to the move to a brand-new stadium, Stuart Webb’s business skills and steadying hand were paramount in the success – indeed in the very survival – of Derby County Along the way there were bound to be larger-than-life characters, notably Brian Clough himself, and the millionaire publisher Robert Maxwell. Stuart Webb had to deal with them all, and a rich harvest of stories are told here in a way that puts the reader right in the middle of the action during those dramatic times. As the Rams legend Alan Hinton says in his foreword to Clough, Maxwell & Me, Stuart’s tales from those days are shocking, humorous and enlightening. His stories about, not just Clough and Maxwell but also Dave Mackay, Arthur Cox, Jim Smith, Lionel Pickering and others, will have you roaring with laughter, and shaking your head in disbelief. You will discover whole new sides to men you thought you knew so well. Rams fans will love Clough, Maxwell & Me, of course, but it is also a book that will delight football fans everywhere. 256 pages, plus 24 pages plate section...

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