Brian Clough said drinking to excess is unacceptable

Football legend Brian Clough, whose heavy drinking almost killed him, is backing a campaign to get warning labels on bottles and cans of alcohol.

The former Derby County and Nottingham Forest manager underwent a liver transplant in January.

He is handing over a petition to the Derby South MP and Cabinet member Margaret Beckett on Friday evening.

It has been signed by more than 500 people including doctors and liver specialists.

Health risk

It calls for warning labels similar to those on cigarette packets to be displayed on the sides of alcohol bottles and cans.

Mr Clough said: "Anybody with a shred of intelligence will realise what we're talking is common sense and they already know it now in any case.

"To drink is bad enough, but to drink too much is unacceptable to everybody - to society, to your personal self, if you want to live to be 103, so to speak.