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...1970s, Brian Clough was one of the best-known figures in Britain. A talented soccer player whose career was cut short by injury, he went into management, leading not one but two unfashionable clubs to the English championship and then winning the European Cup two years in a row. He was a clever, cocky, working-class hero with an opinion on everything from Margaret Thatcher (against) to striking miners (for). Brilliant, needy, self-destructive - he was an alcoholic and had a liver transplant before he died in 2004 - he combined humor, bombast, friendships and rivalries in a long and very...
...club in England, while embroiled in a fierce rivalry with their former manager Don Revie (Colm Meaney) and smarting from a bitter quarrel with his best friend Peter Taylor (Timothy Spall). Sheen, 40, has just the pedigree for the part. In his youth, he was a talented-enough soccer player to be offered a trial by the London club Arsenal, and he proves on film that he hasn't lost his touch. He comes from Port Talbot, the same South Wales steel town that produced Richard Burton and Anthony Hopkins. Sheen says he spends three months studying characters, "looking...
...Chi’s] engine is unbelievable,” Clark said. “I think he’s everyone’s favorite payer. He plays the way you would love every player always to play...
Against Princeton, the senior passed the 3,000 career assist mark, making her only the third Harvard women’s player to ever accomplish that feat, and she added 30 more versus Penn...
Voith found the net again early in the second quarter, and the battle resumed. But at 4-4 with just over four minutes remaining, a penalty on Harvard resulted in a lapse in defense. A Terrier player sprinted undefended down the length of the pool, effortlessly lobbed it over the head of sophomore goaltender Alexandre Popp, and secured St. Francis’ first lead of the game...