The Damned United review – Brian Clough drama is a game of two halves
Clough’s ill-fated tenure at Leeds United is turned into a finely performed, if loosely structured, three-hander
August 2013
Sportblog
Bill Shankly: how much of Red or Dead is fact and how much fiction?
Richard Williams
Richard Williams: Novelist David Peace has shown more dimensions to the Liverpool managerial great in his new book
November 2010
John Giles on the Damned Utd, Leeds's reputation and Brian Clough
Don Revie's great No10 looks back at the tarnished image of the team he served so well
August 2009
The Damned United
It does a good job of recreating the grim, rundown tone of 70s football, says Rob Mackie
Mark Kermode's DVD round-up
The Damned United, Shifty and Race to Witch Mountain
Cloughie gets dirty, the suburbs get gritty and The Rock stars in a surprisingly likable remake, writes Mark Kermode
The Damned United
Book club
Guardian book club: Inside the mind of old Big 'Ead
Book club
Guardian book club: 44 days in 1974
July 2009
Book club
Guardian book club: real people
Week two: John Mullan on the authentic characters in The Damned Utd.
Book club
Guardian book club: Old big 'ead is back
Review: The Damned Utd by David Peace The Damned Utd by David Peace
Books blog
Guardian book club: The Damned Utd by David Peace
Sam Jordison: The subject of really tiresome media hyperbole, this 'occult history of Leeds United' is, I'm afraid to report, as good as they all say. Does the club agree?
March 2009
Film blog
The Damned United should never have been made
David Cox: Brian Clough's family were right to object to The Damned United: it is a cliched fiction that dares to masquerade as truth
The Damned United
Michael Sheen and Peter Morgan team up again for an engaging and evocative 93 minutes on the football pitch, writes Philip French
The Damned United review – Brian Clough as puritan avenger
Leeds United player gives his blessing to The Damned United
The genius and demons of Brian Clough
February 2009
The interview: David Peace
David Peace, author of The Damned Utd, talks to Tim Adams about the motivating forces behind his fiction
November 2007
Football addict
Audiobook: The Damned Utd
August 2007
Film blog
Brian Clough will make a great movie monster
A film version of The Damned Utd from the writer of The Queen and The Last King of Scotland? Back of the net!
April 2007
Angered management
Alfred Hickling, Jane Housham and Cathi Unsworth on The Damned Utd | Eternity is Temporary | The Emperor's Children | Canvey Island | The Chemistry of Death
