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The Damned Utd

David Peace

Paperback | Pages: 346 pages

Rating: 4.13 | 6594 Users | 354 Reviews

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Title	:	The Damned Utd
Author	:	David Peace
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 346 pages
Published	:	April 5th 2007 by Faber Faber (first published August 17th 2006)
Categories	:	Fiction. Sports. Football. Soccer

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Overachieving and eccentric football manager Brian Clough was on his way to take over at the country's most successful, and most reviled football club: Leeds United, home to a generation of fiercely competitive but ageing players. The battle he'd face there would make or break the club - or him.

David Peace's extraordinarily inventive novel tells the story of a world characterised by fear of failure and hunger for success set in the bleak heart of the 1970s.

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Original Title:	The Damned Utd
ISBN:	0571224334 (ISBN13: 9780571224333)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Leeds, Yorkshire, England,1974(United Kingdom)

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Having once briefly worked with Cloughie in the late 1970s when I was promoting a series of football talk-ins and he guested ('Shave your beard off, young man' were his first words to me) and having enjoyed the uncannily accurate characterisation of this controversial figure on film by Michael Sheen, I was particularly interested to catch up with David Peace's fictional portrayal, the novel that inspired the film.So glad I did. Peace nails the self-obsession, the paranoia, the manipulative but

During my gap year I worked as a nanny. My ward was a tremendously shy and emotionally inhibited young boy. One of my tasks was to take him to watch Chelsea FC play. The first game we went to together was an evening kick off. What I remember is the otherworldly green of the grass under the floodlights, the almost phosphorescent white glow of the chalk lines. But most of all what I remember is the uninhibited joy of my ward when Chelsea scored. We became the best of friends after that evening.

Spoiler! The "UTD" of The Damned UTD is Leeds United! LEEDSWhat a world!

Fantastic. The narrative moves with the pace of Clough's genius, manic mind. His 44 days in charge of Leeds United are interspersed with flashbacks of Hartlepools, Derby County and Brighton, exploring his character, his friendships and his rivalries. His arrogance and his wit; the brandy and the fags; Peter Taylor and Don fucking Revie.

That the story would read as brilliant as it is to a stubbornly romantic football fan like me, was expected. That Peace's writing would go all the way down a dark, haunting, decadent poetic road with such elegance and soul, such music, was not. Apparently, Brian Clough was an impossible person. He was arrogant and he was angered. He wouldn't take criticism. He was vengeful and bitter. Perhaps unforgiving. Definitely annoying!And he was isolated, isolated, isolated. It nevertheless didn't feel

A remarkable piece of historical literature that just so happens to be centred in the world of English football.David Peace is clearly an exceptionally talented writer of semi-noir stories. His Red Riding Quartet being the darkest, bleakest, deepest black that the modern take on the genre gets. And on the face of it a fictional tale of a high profile sports personality from 1970s England doesn't automatically lead you in that direction. His portrait of Brian Clough however ticks the majority of

8/10Having read Brian Clough's autobiography a number of years ago I've always been intrigued by the man and his achievements, fair to say he was a quality player and a quality manager. This book focuses on his worst management period where he took over Leeds United, the previous league winners and a team who he had berated in the press for their style of football and lack of discipline. To say this was a poor management choice is quite the understatement!The narrative weaves between the 44