The Damned Utd
A Novel
by David Peace
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Soccer, Sports, and Fiction.
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 ...
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Soccer, Sports, and Fiction.
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Roger Bennett
“The Damned United by David Pearce. The book. Not the movie. Best novel I have read about sport, rife with detail about 1970s football, England at that time, human selfinterest and motivation”
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