{"id":438823,"date":"2026-05-21T19:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T19:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/438823\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T19:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T19:46:08","slug":"middlesbroughs-albert-park-brian-clough-statue-sent-for-repairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/438823\/","title":{"rendered":"Middlesbrough&#8217;s Albert Park Brian Clough statue sent for repairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The local authority said Clough, who made more than 200 appearances for Middlesbrough FC between 1955 and 1961, would often walk through the park on his way to the club&#8217;s former ground, Ayresome Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The statue by sculptor Vivien Mallock was previously repaired in 2016 but the crack had since returned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For the latest repairs, the council said contractors had tried to remove the statue alongside its base but had been unable to do so. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Instead they had to cut the statue above the knees, it said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Following the repairs the structure will be put back together by specialist repairers, the council said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The local authority said Clough, who made more than 200 appearances for Middlesbrough FC between 1955 and 1961,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-438823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}