Laws Of The Jungle

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Brian Laws has played in all four professional divisions of English football. He has also managed at every level. & he spent six years playing under the most charismatic manager the English game has ever seen the legendary Brian Clough. Yet even Cloughie was never at the centre of a bigger sensation than the day Laws as a young manager in his first job was embroiled in a dressing room bust-up that left his star striker with a broken cheekbone. Here for the first time Brian lifts the lid on his six years with Cloughie
- & reveals what really happened on the night a certain Italian striker called Ivano Bonetti ended up in hospital leaving his boss ambushed at home under siege from the media. It has never emerged either
- until now
- that Laws also engaged in a bout of fisticuffs with one of Nottingham Forest's top stars of the Clough era. & got thanked by his boss for hitting the player concerned! Life in a football dressing room is never dull; they were fun times for Laws at the City Ground. However there are also chilling reflections on being a Nottingham Forest player on the day of the Hillsborough Disaster. & of the replay anguish that left him the victim of a cruel put-down by John Aldridge a star on whom Laws was later to exact revenge
- using Bonetti as bait! In between times Laws has been a Wembley winner fulfilling all the boyhood dreams he nurtured at the famous Wallsend Boys Club. But above all this is the story of a life in football & how to survive in it. His journey takes us through Burnley Huddersfield Middlesbrough Nottingham Grimsby Scunthorpe Sheffield & Burnley again. Along the way Brian has endured career-threatening injuries managerial bust-ups & inevitably being sacked. But there have been plenty of laughs & besides he has repeatedly bounced back into the fray. Why? Because having grown up in the soccer hotbed of the North East he loves a game that has always been at the centre of his soul. Brian is not & would never claim to be one of the biggest names. But this is one big read for anyone who shares his passion for football.