#8 Brian Clough and Don Revie
For two people who shared such a bitter feud, Brian Clough and Don Revie had a lot more in common than you would think. Both were from Middlesbrough and hardly played much professional football but turned out to be successful managers in their own right, transforming Nottingham Forest and Leeds United respectively into title-winning sides. However, when Clough moved to Derby as manager, he became quite vocal about Revie and his side’s physical style of football.
Clough described Leeds as “dirty” and “cheating” and even suggested demoting them for their deplorable disciplinary record.Their feud was further embittered when Clough replaced Revie at Leeds. Clough pushed the former manager's buttons like never before when he told his players during a training session, "You can all throw your medals in the bin because they were not won fairly."
However, Revie had the last laugh because Clough was fired from his post just 44 days into the job after his own players turned on him. Their rivalry and hatred for each other came to the fore during a combined television interview in 1974. Want to watch two men politely trampling on each other? Allow Revie and Clough to show you the way.
Their rivalry became so iconic that it was immortalised in the film called The Damned United.
