Be Good, Love Brian: Growing Up with Brian Clough

Craig Bromfield was just 13 years old when Brian Clough, on a whim, took him and his older brother Aaron in. They came from Southwick, a depressed area of Sunderland, and were longed to escape. Clough later invited the brothers to stay at his house, where they formed a relationship and Craig lived with the Cloughs for nine years. This is a beautiful, inspirational story about Clough's gentleness and capacity for generosity, which has never before been told.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 336 pages
Publication date: 14 April 2022
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2022




Craig Bromfield was just 13 years old when Brian Clough, on a whim, took him and his older brother Aaron in. They came from Southwick, a depressed area of Sunderland, where they lived with their abusive stepfather, and from where they longed to escape. After initially meeting Clough while out begging for money, Clough later invited the brothers to stay at his house. From there, a relationship formed that would see Craig living with the Cloughs for nine years, where he was a firsthand witness to the many aspects of Clough's character – his gruffness, his humor, his big-heartedness.


This is a beautiful, inspirational story, which has never before been told, about Clough's gentleness and capacity for generosity. Discover a very different side to this iconic man, one away from the cameras and the football, which shows him for the person he really was.

Weight: 240g
Dimension: 130 x 197 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780008466893