The Dammed United.Tonight at 9.

[Brighton M]

Didn't think it was going to be that good. Cracking film.

 

[e77]

That would, actually!

Much better than my idea of a film involving criminals on the run disappearing with the 1983 FA Cup Final money.

Could serve as a prequel (with the names changed, obviously)

 

[Publius Ovidius]

excellent film

" they are not like us, bloody southerners"

 

[Spun Cuppa]

Perhaps an argument could be formed that football hooliganism came into being after fans witnessed the thuggery on the field of Leeds players, and decided to copy it on the terraces...

Perhaps there might be sociological perspectives on how it started

 

[Notters]

Don't you think it's a bit shit that all people watching this will think that he never managed Brighton?

 

[Pot noodles for everyone]

Don't you think it's a bit shit that all people watching this will think that he never managed Brighton?

I think somehow, we Brighton fans will cope.

Christ on a bike - who cares? He wasn't manager for very long, did sod all down here and the film more or less portrays (with a lot of artistic licence) his Brighton jaunt as the irrelevant side show that it was.

 

[Notters]

I've heard a lot of people say it was completely the opposite, but I wouldn't know, I wasn't there.

Have you thought about counselling?

 

[Armchair Loyalist]

Did anybody watch the cloughie documentary after the film?

My god what a man, who is still sorely missed in this great game of ours.

 

[The Phoenix]

Don't you think it's a bit shit that all people watching this will think that he never managed Brighton?

I don't know how you manage to sleep at night.

 

[Notters]

I don't know how you manage to sleep at night.

I just hate it when people re-write history. Just because the Americans do it doesn't mean we have to.

 

[Brian Munich]

iM surpriseD yoU havenT fixtureD anyonE yeT notterS aS thiS threaD iS similaR tO wheN iT camE ouT aT thE cinemA.

 

[Easy 10]

Its not a film about Brighton. Its a film about Clough.

Like it or not, we are but a tiny scab on that mans phenomal footballing life.

 

[bhaexpress]

Did you travel up to walton for the first game? I thought we had lost 1-0 rotten view,got back to the burrel to find we had drawn! i think they had a goal disallowed,got turfed off the kiosk roof before seeing it disallowed!

Yes I did, I was young and impressionable then !

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Started reading my book but the film won out - suprisingly good and great cinematography/use of colour as well. Anyone know which ground was used for the old Baseball Ground? I'm guessing some current rugby league ground, although it looked a bit too modern to be any of those

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Cheaterfield (Google is your friend) - figures.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Clough was the start of the BHAFC 70's revolution so the people who said he was shit are very much mistaken. He shook the team up and got them into a fighting force bar the 2 big home defeats everyone goes on about. He got us from the relegation zone to mid table. Taylor was the brains and he got us Ward. I was there for Clough's first match in November 1973 when our average home gate of 5000 rose to 16000 that day.

 

[The Wookiee]

Billy Bremner and Jonny Giles are *****

 

[Gwylan]

Billy Bremner and Jonny Giles are *****

I think they could have done better with the actors that played Bremner and Giles: 'Bremner' was far too fat to be a sportsman and 'Giles' was about twice the size of the real one. Giles sued over his portrayal in the original book and won an apology from David Peace.

It was an entertaining film and Michael Sheen is, as always, brilliant in it (I'm wetting myself at the thought of his Hamlet next year) but it's not a patch on the book. The older I get, the more it seems apparent that the adage you can't make a good film out of a good book is absolutely true.

 

[k2bluesky]

I was looking forward to seeing it after all they hype - but am probably the only one who thought it was total crap, everything about it was just bad, couldn't they find some players who at least looked like professionals, the Leeds lot looked like comedy actors or Sunday leaguers (compare the footage of the real Leeds players to the film characters). Sheen totally overacted as Clough, what bloody stadium did they use for Derby, doubt it was that bad in reality, it was just boring, turned over after 30 mins, why are football films requiring any real 'props' always so bad and cheap looking.

 

[pork pie]

Don't you think it's a bit shit that all people watching this will think that he never managed Brighton?

Yes, I did! Maybe it was becaue it would have not looked too good showing how poor he was when he was with us?