RESPECT: Nigel Clough

AS FREE agent winger Adam Reach pointed out in these pages last week, experience is not a prized commodity amongst EFL clubs.
Whether it’s the low value/high potential recruitment policies of clubs like Sunderland or the abundance of 30-somethings in the dugout, football in 2024 is very much a young man’s game.
Let’s hear it, then, for Nigel Clough. Now 58, the former England striker is in his 26th season as a manager.
His tally of 1,488 games - easily the most of any manager currently working in the EFL or Premier League - has even surp...