2) The Damned United - David Peace David Peace's evocative novel juxtaposes Clough's whirlwind reconstruction of Derby County, a club he led to the 1972 title, with his ill-fated attempt to shake up Don Revie's Leeds United team in similar fashion two years later. The bare facts of Clough's 43 days in charge at Elland Road are well-known, but what happened behind closed doors remains unclear; Peace's fictionalised account attempts to fill in the gaps, as cheap booze, truculent players and the ghost of Revie combine to make the surprisingly sensitive protagonist's situation utterly hopeless. A whisky-fugged Clough smashes up his predecessor's desk with an axe; Clough tries desperately to bond with an unresponsive Billy Bremner over whisky; Clough swills so much - yes - whisky that he spends the night on the floor of a hotel bar.
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