Tom Hooper directs Michael Sheen as Brian Clough, the brash young manager taking over Don Revie's Leeds United in 1974 — a job he'd spent years publicly campaigning to ruin. Adapted from David Peace's novel, the film treats Clough's six-week implosion as a Greek tragedy of ego, loyalty and the cost of needing to be right. Timothy Spall's Peter Taylor gives the film its broken heart.
Brian Clough lasted 44 days at Leeds and the film treats every one of them like a Greek tragedy. Michael Sheen plays a manager so consumed by rivalry with Don Revie that the title fight feels almost incidental.
