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...Damned United” is the story of six years in the life of the late Brian Clough (Sheen), a soccer manager legendary for his success on the pitch as well as his penchant for the irreverent sound bite and a tendency, like Charles de Gaulle and Michael Jordan, to see his team as an extension of himself. Loosely based on the novel of the same name by David Peace, the film focuses on Clough’s ill-fated 44-day tenure as manager of Leeds United—“The Damned United?...
...someone who has made his name in political films—in particular playing Tony Blair, a man to whom he bears a distinct physical resemblance—Sheen is a somewhat unlikely choice to play Clough, a working-class Geordie (from Middlesbrough in the North of England) who played as a center-forward before injuries led him to management. Rather than attempt to mimic the mannerisms of the real Brian Clough, Sheen instead engenders his own impressionist rendering of the manager’s persona. In some respects, however, Morgan and Sheen stick closely to the original?...
Sheen’s Clough is not only arrogant but also insecure, desperate for public adulation, and obsessed with outdoing Don Revie (Colm Meaney), his predecessor as manager of Leeds United. Clough’s vendetta against Revie, a well-known historical fact, is nonetheless provided a fictional justification in the film. Soon after Clough has taken over as manager at then-lowly Second Division team Derby County, the First Division champions Leeds United come to Derby for an FA Cup game. In some of the film’s most affecting scenes, Clough and his staff spend weeks trying...
...best ideas I’ve heard so far came from Mike Clough, a foreign policy expert I met at the Berkman Center. The idea is to somehow give a weblog to any New Hampshire voter who wants one, and then, much as I’m helping people at Harvard get started, to help the citizens of New Hampshire get started...
...restrictions. BOTTOM LINES "I had tennis on my mind and, now and then, girls." Boris Becker, tennis champion, explaining his failure to pay taxes after a German court fined him €500,000 "As unpopular as this is to say now, a lot of analysts are pretty good." Chuck Clough, CEO of Clough Capital Partners, showing how analysts' newfound caution extends even to praise of themselves "They know that a certain number of morons will succeed under any system by pure chance." Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert comic, on why statisticians don't write management books