In his programme notes, Cloughie was in good humorous form. He said he had been intrigued during the summer to hear that "our lovely chairman (I've got to butter him up a bit at the start of the season)" had offered him the opportunity of working just one day a week.
"My first thought, quite understandably in my opinion, was to sign up an agent and get him to ask the Board how many hours they expected me to work in that day," said Cloughie.
Forest drew 1-1 with Villa in the season-opener. Clough said he had the utmost regard for the Villa boss Graham Taylor and the support he received from the chairman Doug Ellis.
"Mr Ellis very kindly let me have the use of his office when I went down to Villa Park for the Neil Webb tribunal last month and I sat snugly in his seat," said Cloughie.
"I sat there comfortably for a few minutes and I've got to confess my mind started wandering off and thinking...'Cloughie, you could get used to this one day a week business.'"