Sheffield United boss Neil Warnock has called for a minute's silence in memory of Brian Clough, who lost his battle with cancer on Monday. Warnock got to know former Nottingham Forest and Derby boss Clough during his spell as manager at Notts County.
"I hope we have a minute's silence at the weekend," said BBC Sport columnist Warnock. "I'm going to ask our club if we can have one.
"There will never be another Brian Clough," Warnock added.
"When you look at the greatness of his achievements - to win two European Cups with Forest and the title with Derby - you have to put that into perspective.
"I just can't see it ever happening again and I can't see there being another Cloughie.
"I think the coaching set-up, with the qualifications they all receive, you don't get man-managers now. You're actually cloning future managers now, which I don't think is a great thing.
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"I think you have to have qualifications so that not everybody can do it, but at the minute they are taking all the man-management skills away. "Some things you can't put on a coaching badge and they are the things that make a good manager."
Warnock spent over four years at County when Clough was in the latter stages of his career with Forest.
The Sheffield United chief believes it was a travesty that Clough, who died aged 69, was never given the chance to manage his country.
He added: "The big disappointment for me was that he was never England manager.
"At that period he was the best manager by far, but because of ruffling a few feathers and upsetting the hierarchy he never got his chance, and that really bugged him more than anything.
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