João Atílio the Leeds players in the side at the time have always denied making Clough unwelcome and claimed he had a chip on his shoulder from his beef with Revie. You have to remember this is a movie after all and it’s not exactly true scene for scene. Ultimately Clough had no intention of making it a success when he started, simply wishing to destroy Don Revie’s legacy. Revie’s Leeds team was more than capable of winning the European Cup themselves and probably should have if the 1975 cup hadn’t been fixed by a paid off ref.
Andrew Helmy Sheen’s portrayal of Clough, is the closest one, on screen, much like Bruno Gantz’s portrayal of Hitler. I can see Brian Clough speaking here, not Martin Sheen.
Not quite as inspirational as Jon Sittons famous halftime 'you're sacked, so are you, you're a c**t, you're a bigger c**t and as for you 3 you can all team up and I'll knock the bollocks out of all 3 of you in a dressing room fight later'
I've not seen this for quite a few years, but it makes you appreciate what a superb character actor/impressionist Michael Sheen is. Even in mediocre flicks I've never seen him give a sub par performance.
Only a muppet would believe this film as fact. Almost everyone in his family including his wife, all the Leeds staff, players and his close friends have come out and said the Damned United book and film was a load of shite. The writers were sued by Johny Giles and lost, the rest of the cast were dead. It is a disgraceful portrayal of all involved, last laughs don't come into it.
Well, I'll hand it to Cloughie. If he was aiming to give a lesson in how to take a 100% valid point and deliver it in the worst manner possible, mission accomplished!
He said what he thought which meant you either loved or hated him. Clearly at Leeds this approach didn’t work as it was a very tight knit group who had a war of words with Brian for years prior. It was the opposite to Don’s approach too. At a smaller club like Nottingham Forest at the time, I think the players would’ve been more humble and willing to listen and allow Brian to shape them.
He was delivering shit sandwiches. Had the Leeds' players took that on board, football history may have been rewritten & Leeds could have been the worlds biggest club.
Here's a personal Cloughie story. Forest were playing Bristol Rovers at home and about to lose their unbeaten run.. Forest were 1:0 down at half time. They were late coming out for the second hald and when they did the team were all around Gary Birtles patting and talking to him Forest finished 4:1 winners and Birtles scored a hat trick I don't know what Cloughie had said in the dressing room but we should bottle it. Birtles was awesome in the 2nd half Now that's management.
UTG I love Brian Clough more than I love my own father. Rovers got their comeuppance for beating Brighton 8-2 Nice to see another Bristolian in the chat. 👍🏻👌🏻
never heard of this till yesterday...thought i saw a coming soon trailer until now i see the “11 years ago” tag under this post... looks good,..still new for me!
Michael Sheen is probably the only actor ever to convince as Frost, Clough, and Tarrant. Anyone watching clip, I recommend Yorkshire TV Calendar interview between Clough and Revie. Clough just sacked and was winding up Revie!! Brilliant TV!
I dont think he is convincing as Clough. It's probably as close as we're likely to get but the way he talks sounds like a gay sitcom character. I know he had a distinctive accent but i just think its massively overplayed in this film
'Made' my girlfriend watch this, I'm a Wolves fan. Looking forward to taking her to first game. She not normally into footy films, she loved it. Sheen is something else here, we're both film fans. I think he really channeled Clough spot on. (Also good piss up film with shed load cans) Tim Spall makes it too
After watching Ted Lasso, I found this film on streaming and gave it a watch, you could see quite a few inspirations for the aforementioned series. Seriously great film that never got a proper US release..
Great clip from a great film of a great manager. Ah, the mighty Leeds Utd - that seemingly 'Unbeatable' team, that was beaten in the European Cup Semi final 'Battle of Britain' by.....Celtic! Still holds the record of the highest ever attendance for a UEFA competition match to this day - 136,505!!
What he should have said: ....but as far as I'm concerned what you can do for me is to chuck all your wigs, all your toupees and all your rugs and syrups into the biggest 'flippin' wig-disposal unit you can find, because you've never worn any of them convincingly.
The Leeds players should have spotted that underneath the criticisms he was giving them real encouragement and praise. It was no secret that Clough hated 'the Leeds way' at that point so what did they expect? None of these players have since accepted that they could have tried to listen to his wider message - to play the game more attractively. And he was right - Liverpool dominated at home and abroad for the next fifteen years through mostly playing attractive football while Leeds disappeared.
Giles always said after he never had a problem with Clough ,apart from this particular event . Could have got away with it anywhere bar Leeds ,all experienced players , he should have had more respect.
This takes me back. I notice my initial comment was 14 years ago and I didn’t really agree with what I wrote inasmuch as his approach was far too brutal and hurtful to players feelings, they are after all human. Clough did have the right idea in respect of the long term but went about it very much the wrong way in this training ground scene.
@@CarlosBacardi For all that Clough was a big, strong personality, his failure at Leeds was all about weakness. His obsession with demonstrating that he was better than Revie - that he was right and Revie was wrong - meant he allowed himself to be defined by Revie. He wasn't being Brian Clough, he was being the anti-Don Revie. There is a way to take over from a beloved and successful manager; you build on their legacy, you don't try and destroy it. This doesn't mean you try to be exactly the same, but you have to be comfortable accepting that you're going to share credit with them for your success, at least early on. Eventually you'll be able to stand out in your own right. The models for this would be Bob Paisley and Arne Slot. Paisley never for a second tried to be Shankly, but neither did he change things just because Shankly had done it that way. Arguably that was easy for him as he'd been an integral part of the Shankly way. But Slot has shown you can do that coming in from the outside. He's not worried about people saying that he's only doing well because Klopp left him a good squad - he's openly acknowledged that. I'm sure that if he wins the league this year his first call will be to Klopp to thank him. He's not thrown away the Klopp style - he's looked at it objectively and identified where it can be improved. Slot is also fortunate that Klopp understands that Slot being as - or even more - successful than he was won't harm his legacy. If anything it will enhance it, the same way that Shankly remains beloved and respected even though Paisley was wildly more successful than him. Back to Clough, he was always better suited to the task of taking a smaller club and building them up into something great than he was to taking over a big club. Clough needed an empty stage that he could dominate, not one crowded with the ghosts of the past.
David Moyes didn't make the Clough mistakes. David Moyes was handed a poison chalice - even Ferguson knew the club was in decline; that's why he's described that last league win as his best achievement. But I'm not sure that there is a world where Moyes is good enough to be a successful United manager. Competent management of a mid-table Premier League team is probably his ceiling - and to be fair to him there aren't many people in the world who can do that much.
Mij R had ramos not played his dirty tricks the results would have been different you should thanks your faul player serjio the cheat ramos....... Why doesn't he join wwe....... People will love to see him act and hurt others..... N he wont be called a cheat
It's not like Liverpool couldn't of had Van Dijk do the same number on one of the Madrid players. On top of that, LFC rallied well after Karius's first mistake. Until I read the Liverpool fans' reaction, I was actually giving the team credit for not loosing their heads and loosing by a much bigger margin. That vanished when I began reading all the nonsense about Ramos.
David Lean desperation for win.. acting in the final match that ramos for you my frd..... Ramos has a very bad histry n that collision is enough for any team to go after that defender.......... One does not have the most no of red card just like that
I wonder what he would say to Norman Hunter "..Mr Norman Hunter you got great tackling ability , but God didn't give you a licence to kill people". Hunter would have responded "..but Mr Revie said l have!"
What I know about football could be written on the back of a stamp. Furthermore, I hated sport at school and that forever destroyed any interest it might òtherwise have had for me. But I watched this film on DVD many years ago and was blown away by it. If a story about sport can grab and keep my attention, the people involved have played a right blinder. Very well done, everyone!
I loved the bit when he's at Derby getting ready to receive Leeds for a cup tie. Puts the ashtrays out in the dressing rooms himself. Pity we've lost that personal touch ....
Now a day's players would just go & have a cry on Social Media & tell the world how they felt bullied. Bunch of snowflakes playing the game now a day's at the top level & the media lap it up.
@@alanfox691 didnt the leeds team do exactly that. Human's dont change that much but your subjective view of the world does though; you've turned into the old guy yelling "kids these days" at you when you were younger
Even when Brian was sacked, Leeds didn’t recover and finished 9th in the league the season after. It was clearly a very old team Don was only able to get the best out of because of the familiarity. They had huge egos too so they weren’t willing to allow Brian to shape them like he would’ve done if they were young players.
Clough bullied the Leeds players. This is only a piece of what he actually said to him. The Leeds players were prepared to let bygones be bygones but Clough was obsessed with ruining Revie's Leeds
It was literally old team basically by that point. Many certainly were already in their 30s when Clough took over, and they basically needed overhaul. Revie choose well to leave Leeds for England job, it just not suited his style; day-to-day social building which more suitable for club football, not international football which requires different approach
Revie's Leeds won the title twice in over a decade - despite having the best XI around. Fine when they built up a lead, fine when on top, fine when they could bully opponents - otherwise they usually choked. And Revie was poor with England.
That Leeds side was one hell of a team. From about 66/67 to 73/74 that team always seemed to be in the race for the championship. They should have rivalled the Liverpool teams of the 70s/80s under Paisley and the Manchester United dynasty under Ferguson. Yet they won only two titles, both times after Leeds had established big leads so that they never came under real pressure at the end of the season. On other occasions, when the heat came on they bottled it. Sorry, but that was surely down to one man - Don Revie.
i enjoyed this movie, sheen did great as clough, this leeds team was dirty and clough preferred a team that played attractive football, thats not a geordie accent its cloughs alright, its boro but a little strange, i think he nailed it
If Brian Clough had not immediately expressed his utter distain for Leeds's veteran players and their accomplishments perhaps things would have turned out better. Of course, he WAS in the difficult position of managing a group of aging stars who knew their days were numbered, and men fearful of losing their jobs are unlikely to become friends and allies of the hammer driving them like nails. Avoiding acrimony would have required diplomatic skills and discretion that just were not in Clough's skill set.
he gets sacked by leeds after 44 days and then goes on to win the champions league back to back with forest. unreal.
Leeds players were unfair to him, their loss
That could have been Leeds, and more than twice.
@@joaoatilio1011 what do you expect after he says that to the players first thing
@@mcfcfan1870 he shouldn't but it's no reason to ruin your club.
João Atílio the Leeds players in the side at the time have always denied making Clough unwelcome and claimed he had a chip on his shoulder from his beef with Revie. You have to remember this is a movie after all and it’s not exactly true scene for scene.
Ultimately Clough had no intention of making it a success when he started, simply wishing to destroy Don Revie’s legacy. Revie’s Leeds team was more than capable of winning the European Cup themselves and probably should have if the 1975 cup hadn’t been fixed by a paid off ref.
I’m a Leeds United fan for 51 years and despite all of what happened and didn’t and so on I still have a great deal of love for Brian Clough.
Of course.
Are Leeds still going? I thought they went bankrupt when they dropped out the league???
Michael Sheen done a tremendous take of Clough. Literally has him down to a tee. Fantastic .
you literally don't know the meaning of the word literally.
@@p4cks what??
Andrew Helmy Sheen’s portrayal of Clough, is the closest one, on screen, much like Bruno Gantz’s portrayal of Hitler.
I can see Brian Clough speaking here, not Martin Sheen.
Lol it's Michael Sheen.
Alun Armstrong older clough
A proposterously enjoyable film that even none football fans will love.. Trust me, can't recommend it enough!
Bloody Brilliant film and I'm a casual footy fan
Ask Johnny Giles
Sheen was an absolutely brilliant Clough; the accent, mannerisms, everything. But I honestly thought Colm Meaney WAS Don Revie.
Ha ha!! Me too!!
Me too
Perhaps Don Revie had a secret twin brother
🤣🤣
Yes.
Two great actors.
He literally looks exactly like Revie it’s mental.
What a lovely speach that got everyone motivated and energized...
...and lost the squad before they'd kicked a ball.
They didn't like the truth.
He'd obviously never read "How to make friends and influence people"
Not quite as inspirational as Jon Sittons famous halftime 'you're sacked, so are you, you're a c**t, you're a bigger c**t and as for you 3 you can all team up and I'll knock the bollocks out of all 3 of you in a dressing room fight later'
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I've not seen this for quite a few years, but it makes you appreciate what a superb character actor/impressionist Michael Sheen is. Even in mediocre flicks I've never seen him give a sub par performance.
Sheen is amazing. Absolutely bang on. No one could do better.
The more I watch this the more I'm in awe of Sheens performance and I followed cloughie through all this time.
2020 RUclips: Hey you want to watch this? It's not relevant at all.
Me: *Clicks Aggressively*
2024 just tagged in
2025
Cloughie went on to win back to back European cups, so he had the last laugh
No the F.A. did...
@@9and7 2 Champions League wins though
@@a.demifemiflapo5795 Could've been a WC with the generation he would have had....
Only a muppet would believe this film as fact. Almost everyone in his family including his wife, all the Leeds staff, players and his close friends have come out and said the Damned United book and film was a load of shite. The writers were sued by Johny Giles and lost, the rest of the cast were dead. It is a disgraceful portrayal of all involved, last laughs don't come into it.
@@ChemiiOneLegacy How long did he last at the club then...I'm a bit confused...
this film was amazing, i saw it in the cinema and now have it on DVD. British film making at its finest. Michael sheen is amazing.
A dvd wtf? Who watches dvds these days 😂
@@HullandyorkshiredailyI think you should learn to read before making comments 😂 his post was 13 years ago 😂
@@garethrichards9572 I don't even remember making this comment. Must have been drunk 😂
@@Hullandyorkshiredaily 👍🤣🤣🤣
This actor is a genius. Pure, excellent genius. Love him :)
Well, I'll hand it to Cloughie. If he was aiming to give a lesson in how to take a 100% valid point and deliver it in the worst manner possible, mission accomplished!
He said what he thought which meant you either loved or hated him.
Clearly at Leeds this approach didn’t work as it was a very tight knit group who had a war of words with Brian for years prior. It was the opposite to Don’s approach too.
At a smaller club like Nottingham Forest at the time, I think the players would’ve been more humble and willing to listen and allow Brian to shape them.
He was delivering shit sandwiches. Had the Leeds' players took that on board, football history may have been rewritten & Leeds could have been the worlds biggest club.
What a film and Michael Sheen embodied Brian Clough to absolute perfection. Watched it twice and I will sure watch it again my kind of film❤
That's fake, Al Capone never played Football in England.
He's currently running West Ham United
Thats not Al Capone thats Tommy
And Clough never managed England either...
@@rejeebush al capone
" Lost battalion "
Here's a personal Cloughie story.
Forest were playing Bristol Rovers at home and about to lose their unbeaten run.. Forest were 1:0 down at half time. They were late coming out for the second hald and when they did the team were all around Gary Birtles patting and talking to him
Forest finished 4:1 winners and Birtles scored a hat trick
I don't know what Cloughie had said in the dressing room but we should bottle it. Birtles was awesome in the 2nd half
Now that's management.
UTG
I love Brian Clough more than I love my own father. Rovers got their comeuppance for beating Brighton 8-2
Nice to see another Bristolian in the chat. 👍🏻👌🏻
never heard of this till yesterday...thought i saw a coming soon trailer until now i see the “11 years ago” tag under this post... looks good,..still new for me!
'How to win friends and influence people.' By B.Clough
always drives me mad how good their tracksuits look. director should have loaned them out to an amateur team for a few months
Love this film, watched it a few times. Michael Sheen nailed Brian Clough. Great acting by all involved.
"Don fucking Revie" Lol. Michael Sheen is brilliant.
Great scene! Love Michael Sheen!
0:12 That’s gonna be the speech of the next Man City manager when Guardiola leaves.
ha ha I was going to post that exact same comment m8 until I seen your comment🤣 great film tho anyway this is 😁
@@simonoliver8576Even though City haven't cheated?
What a brilliant performance from Michael Sheen.
Sheen is one of the best Welsh actors in a long while.
Thanks for reminding me why I loved this film when it came out. Brilliance
You gotta admit he gets Clough spot on but that Billy Bremner gives me such a big belly laugh every time I see him. 🤣
0:20 I'm pretty sure he actually said 'fucking' here and it was dubbed over.
Same with 'blooming cheating' and 'dirty beggars'.
Yep. he was a hell of a lot more crude than this ridiculous pg13 language
Yep it's true.
Great spot!
most replayed
Michael Sheen has Cloughie off to a tee, young man!
Sheen brilliant in this Jon Giles looks more like Joe Jordan
Michael Sheen is probably the only actor ever to convince as Frost, Clough, and Tarrant. Anyone watching clip, I recommend Yorkshire TV Calendar interview between Clough and Revie. Clough just sacked and was winding up Revie!! Brilliant TV!
I dont think he is convincing as Clough. It's probably as close as we're likely to get but the way he talks sounds like a gay sitcom character. I know he had a distinctive accent but i just think its massively overplayed in this film
@@stephenm8898 Really ? I think hes brilliant !
@@wrighj dont get me wrong im not saying its not good but be honest... Would you be fooled in a phone call?
...and Blair
He was also suitably oily and slick as Blair in ‘The Queen.’
I didn't realise Billy Bremner was one of the teletubbies.
'Made' my girlfriend watch this, I'm a Wolves fan. Looking forward to taking her to first game. She not normally into footy films, she loved it. Sheen is something else here, we're both film fans. I think he really channeled Clough spot on. (Also good piss up film with shed load cans) Tim Spall makes it too
I love the retro-esque camera angles already.
Incredible actor. One hell of a very brilliant film.
Absolute perfection in this scene.
Don Revie explained it well in the actual interview !
After watching Ted Lasso, I found this film on streaming and gave it a watch, you could see quite a few inspirations for the aforementioned series. Seriously great film that never got a proper US release..
What a team Leeds were then. Those names brought back some memories.
They were dirty. Dirty Leeds.
LUFC - good for a few seasons. Then hated by everyone for generations because of those dirty, ugly, mean-spirited bastards.
dirty time wasting cheats.
Maybe they didnt look like the Leeds players but Whot a great movie, one of the best ive seen.
Michael Sheen should have an oscar for this role.
Great film . Great acting my favourite football film followed by Mike Bassett
Brilliant film, Michael sheen is fantastic!!
Great clip from a great film of a great manager. Ah, the mighty Leeds Utd - that seemingly 'Unbeatable' team, that was beaten in the European Cup Semi final 'Battle of Britain' by.....Celtic!
Still holds the record of the highest ever attendance for a UEFA competition match to this day - 136,505!!
I think I saw that match on an old Betamax
Michael Sheen was brilliant at playing the great man! Clough got the best out of everyone he managed and his trophy cabinet proved it!🏆🥇
Do you think Clough was the best manager in the world?
@@alexrose9388 Not the best but could get the best out of anyone he managed! Look at the team that won 2 European Cups!
Stephen Graham is a great actor but I didn't buy him as Billy Bremner (or as ANY athlete) for a second.
You should try, 'For Pete's Sake', a book written by Taylor's daughter. :)
Billy Brenner not being a very good "sport"man (fuckin cheat maybe) But NEVER sportsman then made him perfect for the part
Yeah well he was a bit fat and old for the role, always felt. Nonetheless, film's fkn A.
hes happy thou his proper team won their 6th cl
@@TheNixbrix JFT39
Brian Clough is my favourite Michael Sheen role
The man who plays the chosen one should have got an Oscar!
How to win friends
And influence people
A master class from
Cloughie
What he should have said: ....but as far as I'm concerned what you can do for me is to chuck all your wigs, all your toupees and all your rugs and syrups into the biggest 'flippin' wig-disposal unit you can find, because you've never worn any of them convincingly.
Billy Bremners? I've seen better syrup in a prison canteen...
chickenspadge 4
LOL
This should have 10k likes
Michael Sheen is England's finest actor period.
He's Welsh mate
Graham Williams 😂
Micheal played kenneth williams, he morphed into kenneth williams. Absolutely brilliant
The Leeds players should have spotted that underneath the criticisms he was giving them real encouragement and praise. It was no secret that Clough hated 'the Leeds way' at that point so what did they expect? None of these players have since accepted that they could have tried to listen to his wider message - to play the game more attractively. And he was right - Liverpool dominated at home and abroad for the next fifteen years through mostly playing attractive football while Leeds disappeared.
And neutral still hate Leeds - and have a soft spot for Forest
@@iainmcclure416 spot on
Giles always said after he never had a problem with Clough ,apart from this particular event .
Could have got away with it anywhere bar Leeds ,all experienced players , he should have had more respect.
This takes me back. I notice my initial comment was 14 years ago and I didn’t really agree with what I wrote inasmuch as his approach was far too brutal and hurtful to players feelings, they are after all human. Clough did have the right idea in respect of the long term but went about it very much the wrong way in this training ground scene.
@@CarlosBacardi For all that Clough was a big, strong personality, his failure at Leeds was all about weakness. His obsession with demonstrating that he was better than Revie - that he was right and Revie was wrong - meant he allowed himself to be defined by Revie. He wasn't being Brian Clough, he was being the anti-Don Revie.
There is a way to take over from a beloved and successful manager; you build on their legacy, you don't try and destroy it. This doesn't mean you try to be exactly the same, but you have to be comfortable accepting that you're going to share credit with them for your success, at least early on. Eventually you'll be able to stand out in your own right.
The models for this would be Bob Paisley and Arne Slot. Paisley never for a second tried to be Shankly, but neither did he change things just because Shankly had done it that way. Arguably that was easy for him as he'd been an integral part of the Shankly way. But Slot has shown you can do that coming in from the outside. He's not worried about people saying that he's only doing well because Klopp left him a good squad - he's openly acknowledged that. I'm sure that if he wins the league this year his first call will be to Klopp to thank him. He's not thrown away the Klopp style - he's looked at it objectively and identified where it can be improved. Slot is also fortunate that Klopp understands that Slot being as - or even more - successful than he was won't harm his legacy. If anything it will enhance it, the same way that Shankly remains beloved and respected even though Paisley was wildly more successful than him.
Back to Clough, he was always better suited to the task of taking a smaller club and building them up into something great than he was to taking over a big club. Clough needed an empty stage that he could dominate, not one crowded with the ghosts of the past.
Michael sheen is a sick actor.
Just seen him portray Chris Tarrant on ITV's the quiz. What a talent.
Bye the way mot💛💙
Average actor, decent impressionist.
MOT
ALAW
saw this film again yesterday. brilliant 10/10 must see
I love this bit - my favourite bit of the film - aswell as 'you can't fire me, I'm Brian Clough!'
My message tone too! lol
David Moyes should watch this.
David Moyes didn't make the Clough mistakes. David Moyes was handed a poison chalice - even Ferguson knew the club was in decline; that's why he's described that last league win as his best achievement. But I'm not sure that there is a world where Moyes is good enough to be a successful United manager. Competent management of a mid-table Premier League team is probably his ceiling - and to be fair to him there aren't many people in the world who can do that much.
The best sports film around.
Yes, if you know other movies like this please share with us
GREAT FILM !
watched it today, fantastic film!!
Where can we see it on TV?
Show this to sergio ramos
irish rover yes hes an hero of dark football
Junaid Jawed another salty lfc fan spreading the bs propaganda
Madrid played you off the pitch from 30 mins onwards
Get over it
Mij R had ramos not played his dirty tricks the results would have been different you should thanks your faul player serjio the cheat ramos....... Why doesn't he join wwe....... People will love to see him act and hurt others..... N he wont be called a cheat
It's not like Liverpool couldn't of had Van Dijk do the same number on one of the Madrid players. On top of that, LFC rallied well after Karius's first mistake. Until I read the Liverpool fans' reaction, I was actually giving the team credit for not loosing their heads and loosing by a much bigger margin. That vanished when I began reading all the nonsense about Ramos.
David Lean desperation for win.. acting in the final match that ramos for you my frd..... Ramos has a very bad histry n that collision is enough for any team to go after that defender.......... One does not have the most no of red card just like that
Absolutely Brilliant
I’ll literally watch _anything_ with Stephen Graham in it. Fabulous actor.
I wonder what he would say to Norman Hunter "..Mr Norman Hunter you got great tackling ability , but God didn't give you a licence to kill people". Hunter would have responded "..but Mr Revie said l have!"
Brilliant great acting x
Well that little motivational speech is going get them smiling and eager to play their hearts out for the new manager isn’t it lol 🤣
What I know about football could be written on the back of a stamp. Furthermore, I hated sport at school and that forever destroyed any interest it might òtherwise have had for me. But I watched this film on DVD many years ago and was blown away by it. If a story about sport can grab and keep my attention, the people involved have played a right blinder. Very well done, everyone!
Man Utd fan loved this.!!!!
I am not massively into Football. But I still enjoyed this film. Stephen Graham (Billy Bremner). A legde, he wasalso in Snatch and This Is England.
have you seen him in AWAYDAYS great in that
The greatest english manager England never had
There is no way he should have gone in there without Peter Taylor. Had he done that history might be rather different.......
Michael Sheen. What a class!
I loved the bit when he's at Derby getting ready to receive Leeds for a cup tie. Puts the ashtrays out in the dressing rooms himself. Pity we've lost that personal touch ....
Johnny Giles looks like he's grown a foot taller here.
Imagine if a young, somewhat successful manager was hired by Man City or Liverpool today and just said this to the players 😂 Never change Cloughy
Now a day's players would just go & have a cry on
Social Media & tell the world how they felt bullied.
Bunch of snowflakes playing the game now a day's at the top level & the media lap it up.
@@alanfox691 didnt the leeds team do exactly that. Human's dont change that much but your subjective view of the world does though; you've turned into the old guy yelling "kids these days" at you when you were younger
Defo look at rashford going gets tough and manger not taking his crap and he wants out the door
0:01 Sean Dyche's first day as Man City manager after relegation to the championship in 2025
The best English manager that was never the England Manager, I am glad that Don REVVIE was a flop
Even when Brian was sacked, Leeds didn’t recover and finished 9th in the league the season after.
It was clearly a very old team Don was only able to get the best out of because of the familiarity. They had huge egos too so they weren’t willing to allow Brian to shape them like he would’ve done if they were young players.
Clough bullied the Leeds players. This is only a piece of what he actually said to him. The Leeds players were prepared to let bygones be bygones but Clough was obsessed with ruining Revie's Leeds
They got to the European Cup final, and 9th is pretty good for the start they had.
@@andrewomahony9260They finished 9th in their first full season after Clough was sacked.
It was literally old team basically by that point. Many certainly were already in their 30s when Clough took over, and they basically needed overhaul. Revie choose well to leave Leeds for England job, it just not suited his style; day-to-day social building which more suitable for club football, not international football which requires different approach
Revie's Leeds won the title twice in over a decade - despite having the best XI around. Fine when they built up a lead, fine when on top, fine when they could bully opponents - otherwise they usually choked. And Revie was poor with England.
One of the best manager
Micheal Sheen a cracking actor
Awesome talent!
Does this apply to Citeh?
Giles is thinking 'I'm going to sue the shorts off the guy who wrote this' (which he did).
That Leeds side was one hell of a team. From about 66/67 to 73/74 that team always seemed to be in the race for the championship. They should have rivalled the Liverpool teams of the 70s/80s under Paisley and the Manchester United dynasty under Ferguson. Yet they won only two titles, both times after Leeds had established big leads so that they never came under real pressure at the end of the season. On other occasions, when the heat came on they bottled it. Sorry, but that was surely down to one man - Don Revie.
Id love to see Sheen do a Clough biopic centred on the Forest era.
Michael Sheen... a genius... Superp acting
Brenner was sent off in the very next game against Liverpool.
Keegan
Bold strategy. Let's see if it pays off for him.
Brilliant actor and testament to dear Cloughie! 😁
I love Stephen Graham in this. Good actor and clearly having fun playing a snidy little barsteward.
Top film.
He was right though-not exactly revered in history considering how dominant they were.
Great British film and one of the best and most versitile Welsh actors in Britain...G...
I have this on DVD, and obviously they have dubbed or re-recorded the scene with Brian using less colourful language than is used on the DVD.
Still can’t get over that wig they made Stephen Graham wear
been to see the film on opening night its very good clough should have been given more time
Sheen is so good in this.
i enjoyed this movie, sheen did great as clough, this leeds team was dirty and clough preferred a team that played attractive football, thats not a geordie accent its cloughs alright, its boro but a little strange, i think he nailed it
Maybe things woud have been different if Peter Taylor stuck with Clough when he managed Leeds United
If Brian Clough had not immediately expressed his utter distain for Leeds's veteran players and their accomplishments perhaps things would have turned out better. Of course, he WAS in the difficult position of managing a group of aging stars who knew their days were numbered, and men fearful of losing their jobs are unlikely to become friends and allies of the hammer driving them like nails. Avoiding acrimony would have required diplomatic skills and discretion that just were not in Clough's skill set.
Throw your pots and pans in the biggest dustbin hahahahaha Michael Sheen is a top quality actor!
History proved him right. Those Leeds players will always be remembered as a bunch of yobs.