The Damned United tells the story of the 1974 Leeds United football team manager Brian Clough (played by Michael Sheen), a cocky coach who takes over the team from the popular – and successful – manager, Don Revie (played by Colm Meaney). Based on the David Peace novel and adapted for the screen by Peter Morgan (The Queen, Frost/Nixon) shows how Brian Clough took apart the winning team in order to prove it was his team and no longer his rival Revie’s. Clough left his long-time right-hand man Peter Taylor (Timothy Spall) behind when he first took over Leeds United, and it was Taylor who was really the brains of the operation. Their tumultuous relationship also plays out in The Damned United, directed by Tom Hooper. Read On…
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