Pride Park's level-headed and ego-free manager is struggling to stamp his mark on the club his father built THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK Wouldn't it be nice if Derby County started doing well under Nigel Clough? Visit Pride Park and you cannot fail to notice the photographs depicting past glories. In many a certain, late, leviathan of the English game looms large. We are talking BrianClough...
Things are going to be a little different around here… without Don. – BrianClough The Damned United was not on my radar whatsoever. I never heard of the film until Mike from Big Mike’s Movie Blog reviewed it. I heard that people were digging this movie. Typically, I don’t like sports films, especially soccer. This movie [...]
... that, fully recommended. The Damned United (Tom Hooper, 2009) Extremely intelligent film about BrianClough's ill-fated stint as manager of Leeds United, a reign that lasted only 44 days, this is one of the best films about football that I've seen for a while. Michael Sheen's central performance is exquisite - he captures Clough's arrogance and hubris perfectly, and Timothy...
Adapted from David Peace's bestselling, quasi -biographical tale of football boss BrianClough's short-lived tenure as manager of Leeds in 1974, The Damned United also marks the latest impersonation for chameleon Michael Sheen , an actor who's made a career out of playing disparate British celebrities; from Prime Minister Tony Blair (The Deal, The Queen) and gay comedian Kenneth Williams...
Here are the video highlights for the very first season of the Premier League, 1992-93. Included in the video is the great BrianClough, once-great clubs such as Norwich City, Crystal Palace and Ipswich Town, as well as the intriguing race for the title featuring Manchester United, Aston Villa, Norwich City, Queens Park Rangers and [...]
WHO better than Michael Sheen, critically praised as soccer legend BrianClough in The Damned United, to score again presenting this fascinating, highly entertaining guide to football managers from Shankly to Wenger?
... why Amazon believe there’s a link between people who bought The Damned United (a film about BrianClough and the 1970s footballing exploits of Derby County and Leeds United) and people who might want to buy a number of 30 minute episodes of a BBC sitcom. Answers on a postcard please …
Botcheston: The next blockbuster to hit the screen at Botcheston Village Hall will be The Damned United. It will be shown at 7.30pm on Tuesday November 10. The dramatisation of the late BrianClough's brief and troubled reign as Leeds United's manager caused some controversy when it was released and is sure to get football fans (and others) talking again. Tickets are just £3.50....
What's stranger, an American political blogger who writes obsessively about English soccer or a bio-pic about an English soccer manager showing in American move theatres? The movie in question is "The Damned United." The soccer manager is the legendary BrianClough. Clough is played by Michael Sheen, who has previous starred as Tony Blair in "The Queen" and...
... more every time we see you Michael Sheen portrays renowned (not in our neck of the woods) coach BrianClough who, along with buddy Peter Taylor (the great Timothy Spall ), make winners out of losers, but when they try to make winners out of someone else's winners (the also great great Colm Meaney ), they end up losing everything, or do they'???? Morgan-Sheen is the new Merchant-Ivory...
A win over the SFTL is always fine, and one when (a) they've been bigging themselves up before hand and (b) David Bentley is playing will always be good. 'Arry wasn't happy, but then he's no more BrianClough than Robbie Keane is Joe Namath. Notice how his shirt number falls between DB10's and TH14's. It's all in the stars, they say. A new job today, so this is just a brief one. More...
... faith, but what he himself believed in. Ayesteran - a man who helped establish them as the Spanish BrianClough and Peter Taylor - left Anfield a little over two years ago. The reason: A petty disagreement which could so easily have been rectified rather than be an irreparable rift. Many Reds believe the day Paco headed back to his homeland was the day the cracks began to appear....
... media reports that I don't speak to my players.“I was no angel as a young player but having BrianClough and then Sir Alex Ferguson as my manager I found them very hard but looking back very fair. I learned off them as well as my youth coaches over in Ireland.”Keane said that he had to change the dynamics at the club when he arrived.“We finished several points off the play-offs last...