The Damned United (2009)

Actors

• Tomasz Aleksander (actor)
• Muhammad Ali (actor)
• Mark Bazeley (actor)
• Christopher Boulstridge (actor)
• Paul Bown (actor)
• Bill Bradshaw (actor)
• Damian Broadbent (actor)
• Jim Broadbent (actor)
• Mark Cameron (actor)
• Philip Childs (actor)
• Christopher Chilton (actor)
• Brian Clough (actor)
• Martin Compston (actor)
• John Craven (actor)
• Giles Alderson (actor)

Genres

• Biography
• Comedy
• Drama
• Sport

Taglines:

"They love me for what I'm not... ...they hate me for what I am."

Quotes:

Brian Clough: [to the assembled Leeds players] Well, I might as well tell you now. You lot may all be internationals and have won all the domestic honours there are to win under Don Revie. But as far as I'm concerned, the first thing you can do for me is to chuck all your medals and all your caps and all your pots and all your pans into the biggest fucking dustbin you can find, because you've never won any of them fairly. You've done it all by bloody cheating.

Brian Clough: Things are going to be a little different around here... without Don.

Sam Longson: His salary's 300 quid a week? You can't pay a footballer that!::Brian Clough: That's the way things are going, Uncle Sam...

Brian Clough: [Arriving in Brighton. Sings] Oh, I don't like to be beside the seaside...

Brian Clough: You know he'll be making a file on us. A dossier.::Peter Taylor: Who?::Brian Clough: Don Revie. Prepares a file on every game. Leaves nothing to chance. Knows every opponent's formations, strategies everything.::Peter Taylor: I've heard he's a superstitious twat.::Brian Clough: [Ignoring him] We grew up just a few streets apart in Middlesbrough... Close to Ayresome Park. He'll have known my street: Valley Road. Probably bought sweets from Garnett's factory where me dad worked.::Peter Taylor: I heard he wears the same suit to every game. His lucky blue suit.

Manny Cussins: I hired you to do this job because I think you're the best young manager in this country.::Brian Clough: Thank you. I'm the best old one, too.::Manny Cussins: I also did it under the assumption that you would be coming here wanting the best for this club. For the city of Leeds. So why do I get the feeling this is all about you and Don?::Brian Clough: Of course it's just about me and Don. Always has been. But instead of putting frowns on your foreheads, all you elders of Leeds in your blazers and your brass-fucking-buttons, it should put big white Colgate smiles on your big white faces. Because it means I won't eat, and won't sleep until I've taken whatever that man's achieved, and beaten it. Beaten it so I never have to hear the name Don fucking Revie again. Beat it, the only name anyone sings in the Yorkshire ale houses, raising their stinking jars to their stinking mouths, is Brian Clough. Brian Clough uber-fucking-alles! Understand?

Brian Clough: I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the country. But I'm in the top one.

Peter Taylor: Brighton's a small club, I'll give you that.::Brian Clough: Bloody midgets!::Peter Taylor: But at least we'd be together! You and me, Brian. We can build them up. Make them our own, like we did with Hartlepools, like we did with Derby...::Brian Clough: And then what? Bottle again soon as it comes to the big time? That's always been the trouble with you, Pete. No ambition.::Peter Taylor: That's the trouble with you, Brian. Too much ambition. Too much greed, too much everything!::Brian Clough: Yeah, you knock it, but it's done you proud over the years, hasn't it? My ambition. Without me, you'd still be in Burton bloody Albion.::Peter Taylor: Yes, and without you, I'd still have a job in Derby! A job and a home that I love. Oh, yes, you're the shop window, I grant you that. The razzle and the bloody dazzle. But I'm the goods in the back! Without me, without somebody to save you from yourself, Brian fucking Clough, you're not just half. You're nothing!::Brian Clough: I'm nothing? I'm nothing? Don't make me laugh. What does that make you then, Taylor? Something? You're half of nothing! Nothing's parasite! A big fat pilot fish that feeds on nothing. A bloody nobody! The forgotten man! History's fucking afterthought!

Manny Cussins: Let's be honest, Brian. It's not working, is it? The players aren't happy. We're not happy. In truth, we should probably never have hired you without Peter Taylor.::Brian Clough: So... what do you want to do about it?::Manny Cussins: It's not working. We have to part company.::Brian Clough: Fine, it'll cost you twenty-five grand.::Manny Cussins: What? For six weeks' work?::Brian Clough: Plus three-and-a-half grand for Jimmy Gordon. And an agreement that Leeds United will pay both our income taxes for the next three years.::Manny Cussins: That is bloody criminal!::Brian Clough: You can throw in the Merc and all.::Manny Cussins: What?::Brian Clough: Might be a bit flash for a man out of a job, but the truth is, I've grown to like it.::Manny Cussins: Who do you bloody think you are?::Brian Clough: Brian Clough. Brian Howard Clough.

Brian Clough: We're from the north, Pete. What do we care about Brighton? Bloody southerners. Look where we are! We're almost in France!

Clough, Brian Filmography

• The Greatest Footie Ads Ever
  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Clough
  2009, role: actor
• The Damned United
  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Old Big 'Ead: A Tribute to Brian Clough
  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself
• I Love 1970's
  2000, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Soccer's Hard Men
  1992, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Liverpool FC: The Mighty Reds
  1988, role: actor , character name: Himself - Nottingham Forest Manager
• The Big Match
  1968, role: actor , character name: Himself - Analyst

Famous quotes by Brian Clough:

"No cheating bastards will I talk to; I will not talk to any cheating bastards!"

"At last they've got a manager who speaks better English than they do"

"Football hooligans - well, there are 92 club chairmen for a start."

"If a chairman sacks the manager he initially appointed, he should go as well."

"I can't even spell spaghetti never mind talk Italian. How could I tell an Italian to get the ball? He might grab mine."

"I'm dealing with my drinking problem and I have a reputation for getting things done."

"Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive."

"Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life."

"On occasions I have been big-headed. I think most people are when they get in the limelight. I call myself Big Head just to remind myself not to be."

"If God had wanted us to play football in the sky, He'd have put grass up there."

"I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one."

"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. They are absolutely right."

"Telling the entire world and his dog how good a manager I was. I knew I was the best but I should have said nowt and kept the pressure off 'cos they'd have worked it out for themselves."

"I like my women to be feminine, not sliding into tackles and covered in mud."

"The river Trent is lovely, I know because I have walked on it for 18 years."

"That Seaman is a handsome young man but he spends too much time looking in his mirror rather than at the ball. You can't keep goal with hair like that."

"Beckham? His wife can't sing and his barber can't cut hair."

"I've decided to pick my moment to retire very carefully - in about 200 years time."

"We used to go to the pictures every Saturday night but we had to leave a little bit early and get home and watch Match of the Day - and my wife still complains she missed the last five minutes of every film we saw."

"When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back."