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Story of a Season – 2008-2009 – Nigel Clough’s exit left Burton Albion clinging onto a title dream

The NLP’S story of a season: Turning back the clock to 2008-2009
Burton Albion’s players celebrate winning promotion to the Football League

When Nigel Clough became the new manager of Derby County in January 2009, everyone assumed it was only a matter of time before the former England striker was joined in the Football League by the Burton Albion side he’d left behind.

Because the Brewers weren’t just leading the Blue Square Premier. They were over the hills and far away.
On the day Clough’s transformative 11-year reign came to an end, the part-timers from Staffordshire had won 11 straight games and were 13 points clear at the summit of the table.
By the end of February, his replacement Roy McFarland had extended that advantage t...

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