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The Damned United
The Damned United tells the story of treasured football manager Brian Clough's monumental failure in charge of the then-prolific Leeds United team.
In many ways, this would be an extremely odd topic to make a movie on. It's not about a success story as most sports movies are about. It's about a fall from grace. A failure by someone bound to succeed.
It's about a manager who defied all expectations with an unfancied team in Derby County and then got his big opportunity at a big club and absolutely bottled it.
While the film is about a football manager and a football team, it's scarcely about football. Instead it's a character piece and... |