'I love the watch son'

Ex-Nottingham Forest goalkeeper Mark Crossley has been telling the Sacked In The Morning podcast about Brian Clough's attempt to sign a young Kingsley Black from Luton.

"We tried to sign a young lad called Kingsley Black from Luton and he brought his agent with him and the manager just wouldn't speak to him," said Crossley.

"So he made the agent wait outside while he spoke to Kingsley. He then said to Kingsley in his office, so you can imagine how intimidating that would be, he said to Kingsley, he said, 'young man', he said, 'I love the shoes you've got on son, they look lovely. I'd like to try them on.'

"So Kingsley took his shoes off, he's only like a size seven and the gaffer's like a size ten, you know. So he's got the shoes on and he's walking around with the shoes on, he's treading all the heels down on the back, he's going, 'I don't think they fit son, they don't fit son'. He says, 'but that's a lovely watch, I'd like to try the watch on'.

"Oh my God. This is a guy who was coming to sign for a million quid from Luton by the way and his agent is outside waiting. So he tries the watch on and he likes the watch, he says, 'I love the watch son, love the watch, love the watch'.

"So he takes the watch off and he puts it in the shoes and then he goes over to the filing cabinet and he puts the shoes with the watch in the filing cabinet.

"He says, 'right, you can tell your agent he can come back in and you're either going back to Luton without a watch and a pair of shoes, but if you sign the contract I might let you have them back son.'"

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