Duncan Hamilton (journalist)

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Duncan Hamilton is a British author and newspaper journalist and winner of the prestigious William Hill Sports Book of the Year award.

Hamilton won the award with his 2007 memoir Provided You Don't Kiss Me - 20 Years With Brian Clough.^[1], an account of his time at the Nottingham Evening Post where he worked for more than 20 years.

He was the paper's Nottingham Forest reporter during the club's glory years and covered both of Forest's historic victorious European Cup campaigns (1979 and 1980) for the newspaper. During his time covering Forest, Hamilton developed a close, if at times testy, relationship with the club's famously outspoken manager, Brian Clough.

In Provided You Don't Kiss Me, Hamilton claims he bonded with Clough after the manager learned he, like Clough, was from the north-east of England. He provides an eyewitness account of the relationship between Clough and his assistant, Peter Taylor, and charts Clough's demise and descent into alcoholism.

FHM called the book a "superb portrait of the conflicted, contradictory man [that] doesn't dusk his uglier aspects."^[2] It quickly became a bestseller and won the William Hill award against very strong competition.^[3]

After winning the £18,000 first prize, Hamilton wrote a column for the Yorkshire Post, where he currently works as a deputy editor, expressing his surprise and delight at the book's success.

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^ Duncan Hamilton, Provided You Don't Kiss Me - 20 Years With Brian Clough, Fourth Estate/Harper Collins, London, 2007
^ As quoted in the book's review on Amazon.co.uk
^ William Hill Sports Book of the Year website