Hamilton was the Nottingham Evening Posts Nottingham Forest reporter during the club's glory years and covered both of Forest's 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 outspoken manager, Brian Clough. He won his first William Hill award with the 2007 memoir Provided You Don't Kiss Me: 20 Years With Brian Clough,Duncan Hamilton, Provided You Don't Kiss Me: 20 Years With Brian Clough, Fourth Estate/Harper Collins, London, 2007 an account of his time at the Nottingham Evening Post where he worked for more than 20 years. The book also won the Best Football Book category of the 2008 British Sports Book Awards.
