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Clough and Revie

2011-04-07 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2011-04-07
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Book Synopsis Clough and Revie by : Roger Hermiston

Download or read book Clough and Revie written by Roger Hermiston. This book was released on 2011-04-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don Revie and Brian Clough were born a brisk walk away from each other in Middlesbrough, in 1927 and 1935 respectively. They were brought up in a town ravaged by the Depression and went on to become highly successful professional footballers. Then, as young managers, they both took clubs languishing in the doldrums (Leeds United and Derby County) and moulded them into championship winners. Despite the myriad similarities, these two sons of the Tees were as different in character as Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy. A bitter rivalry developed between them, which in turn enlivened and then blighted English football in the 1960s and '70s. In Clough and Revie, exclusive interviews with players, relatives and friends shed fresh light on these two intriguing characters. Part footballing chronicle, part social history, the book is a revelatory exploration of the rivalry between the two men. It brings a fresh perspective on their early years in the North-East, tells how they nearly became teammates and explains why the feud began and what its repercussions were.

Clough and Revie

2011 Soccer managers
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Release : 2011
Genre : Soccer managers
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Book Rating : 607/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Clough and Revie by : Roger Hermiston

Download or read book Clough and Revie written by Roger Hermiston. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There is a curious symmetry about the lives of Don Revie and Brian Clough. They were born just a brisk walk away from each other in Middlesbrough, in 1927 and 1935 respectively, on either side of the town s (former) Ayresome Park stadium. They were brought up in a city ravaged by the Depression, where jobs were scarce and life was a perpetual struggle for many. Both of them went on to become highly successful, if not exceptional, professional footballers. Then, as young managers, they both took clubs languishing in the doldrums (Leeds United and Derby County) and moulded them into championship winners. Despite the myriad similarities in background, career path and achievement, these two sons of the Tees shared little else in common and were as different in character as Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy. A bitter rivalry developed between them, which in turn enlivened and then blighted English football in the 1960s and 70s. It eventually led to the remarkable events of 1974, when Revie left Leeds to become England manager, and Clough to the astonishment of the football world succeeded him at Elland Road. Three years later, history repeated itself- when Revie resigned as

We Are the Damned United

2011-04-01 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2011-04-01
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 391/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis We Are the Damned United by : Phil Rostron

Download or read book We Are the Damned United written by Phil Rostron. This book was released on 2011-04-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brian Clough's forty-four-day tenure as manager of Leeds United in 1974 is one of the most infamous episodes in British football history. While the bestselling The Damned United was a fictional account of Clough's short-lived but controversial reign at the club, We Are the Damned United reveals the true story, as told by the players he managed at the time. It includes candid contributions from legendary names such as Peter Lorimer, Eddie Gray and Terry Yorath, who reveal what it was like to make the transition from the relatively smooth management style of Don Revie to a constant crossing of swords with the outspoken Clough, who left the club flailing at the foot of the league upon his premature departure. We Are the Damned United tells it how it really was rather than how it might have been.

Old Big 'Ead

2009-03-25 Sports & Recreation
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Release : 2009-03-25
Genre : Sports & Recreation
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Book Rating : 295/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Old Big 'Ead by : Duncan Hamilton

Download or read book Old Big 'Ead written by Duncan Hamilton. This book was released on 2009-03-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He’s British football’s philosopher manqué. The most successful England manager we never had and a genuine footballing legend. To many, an outspoken working class hero. To others – mainly his targets – he was a bolshy northern gobshite. Never less than opinionated, often controversial and always eloquent, here we present Brian Clough, in his very own words… On himself: ‘I wouldn’t say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.’ On Roy Keane: ‘I only ever hit Roy once. He got up, so I couldn’t have hit him very hard.’ On the FA: ‘I’m sure the England selectors thought if they took me on and gave me the job I’d want to run the show. They were shrewd, because that’s exactly what I would have done.’ On being nominated for a knighthood: ‘I thought it was my next door neighbour, because she thought if I got something like that, I’d have to move.’ On handling players: ‘We talk about it for twenty minutes and then we decide I was right.’ On drink: ‘Walk on water? I know most people out there will be saying that instead of walking on it, I should have taken more of it with my drinks.’ Duncan Hamilton is the author of the acclaimed Provided You Don’t Kiss Me: 20 Years with Brian Clough, for which he won the William Hill Sports Book of Year Award in 2007. He was the Nottingham Evening Post’s Forest reporter during the club, and Clough’s glory years. He is now deputy editor at the Yorkshire Post.

The Damned Utd

2014-04-01 Fiction
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Release : 2014-04-01
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 714/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Damned Utd by : David Peace

Download or read book The Damned Utd written by David Peace. This book was released on 2014-04-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Probably the best novel ever written about sport.” —The Times (UK) He was a real-life, working-class hero known as the “British Muhammad Ali”—because he had a big mouth and wasn’t afraid to use it. But Brian Clough wasn’t a boxer, he was a soccer coach, known for taking backwater teams and making them into champions. In towns where people had little else, the hard-drinking and scrappy Clough was a hero. He was especially beloved for telling it like it was on behalf of small-town teams everywhere—calling out the stars who played dirty, rival coaches he suspected of bribing referees, and the league that let them get away with it. And then one day Clough was offered a job coaching the big-city team he’d called the dirtiest—the perennial powerhouse Leeds United. The Damned Utd tells the story of the legendary Clough’s tumultuous forty-four days trying to turn around a corrupt institution without being corrupted himself—the players who wouldn’t play, the management that looked the other way, the wife and friends who stood by him as he fought to do the right thing. The inspiring story behind the movie of the same name, The Damned Utd has been called by The Times of London, “The best novel ever written about sport.”

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