stories about men

Christiana 2022-03-22 09:02:19

When you have become a champion, when you have successfully pulled the old overlord off his horse, when you are in a good mood, the old overlord suddenly stretched out an olive branch, what would you do?
If it were me, I would say no and continue to conquer the world with my team.
But no Clough, he saw Leeds as a challenge, as a challenge in his quest for perfect football, and he bravely embraced it, trying to turn filthy Leeds into another believer in art football , even at the cost of parting ways with assistants and old friends.
However, Leeds United's football style has been deeply rooted, just like the England national team has played 442 for 10,000 years. Therefore, like Don Quixote single-handedly rushing to the windmill, the result is a no-suspense failure. Being humiliated on a talk show, he was dismissed from get out of class.
And that's where the film climaxes: Clough finally wins back his friend and teaching assistant, and has an unprecedented success in Nottingham.

There are two episodes in this film that impressed me:
1. When Derby County challenged Leeds for the second time, Clough did not say a word of nonsense in the dressing room, and the morale was mobilized to the peak. But as a head coach, in the face of enormous pressure, he didn't even have the courage to walk out of the locker room.
2. At the end of the film, the director mocked the FA's pride and Clough's greatness with a line of subtitles "Clough remains the best couch England never got".

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Extended Reading
  • Cale 2022-01-08 08:01:23

    Watch Michael Sheen, learn football

  • Wilbert 2022-03-26 09:01:09

    The accent is so fun

The Damned United quotes

  • Brian Clough: You know he'll be making a file on us. A dossier.

    Peter Taylor: Who?

    Brian Clough: Don Revie. Prepares a file on every game. Leaves nothing to chance. Knows every opponent's formations, strategies everything.

    Peter Taylor: I've heard he's a superstitious twat.

    Brian Clough: [Ignoring him] We grew up just a few streets apart in Middlesbrough... Close to Ayresome Park. He'll have known my street: Valley Road. Probably bought sweets from Garnett's factory where me dad worked.

    Peter Taylor: I heard he wears the same suit to every game. His lucky blue suit.

  • Manny Cussins: I hired you to do this job because I think you're the best young manager in this country.

    Brian Clough: Thank you. I'm the best old one, too.

    Manny Cussins: I also did it under the assumption that you would be coming here wanting the best for this club. For the city of Leeds. So why do I get the feeling this is all about you and Don?

    Brian Clough: Of course it's just about me and Don. Always has been. But instead of putting frowns on your foreheads, all you elders of Leeds in your blazers and your brass-fucking-buttons, it should put big white Colgate smiles on your big white faces. Because it means I won't eat, and won't sleep until I've taken whatever that man's achieved, and beaten it. Beaten it so I never have to hear the name Don fucking Revie again. Beat it, the only name anyone sings in the Yorkshire ale houses, raising their stinking jars to their stinking mouths, is Brian Clough. Brian Clough uber-fucking-alles! Understand?