Here are the video highlights for the very first season of the Premier League, 1992-93. Included in the video is the great Brian Clough, once-great clubs such as Norwich City, Crystal Palace and Ipswich Town, as well as the intriguing race for the title featuring Manchester United, Aston Villa, Norwich City, Queens Park Rangers and Blackburn Rovers.

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Phew, writing something vaguely interesting (even for me) at this time of the night here� is hard enough. Where do I start? I know, I'll start� with a Lithuanian most of you have forgotten about.

I was watching (albeit very briefly) Inter at Livorno the other day. It finished 2-0 to Inter btw.

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Pointilist portrait painting of Brian Clough Original 2009 painting by Nottinghamshire artist Diane Bartle-Witt. Acrylics on canvas, ready to hang. Size: 30 cm x 40 cm £59.99 (inc UK P&P) Please allow up to 21 days for UK delivery. Due to the dangers in shipping, this item will not be delivered outside the UK. Click to continue reading...

Limited edition print of Nottingham Forest legend Brian Clough The original portrait was painted by Nottingham artist Neil Heath in 2004. Each glossy print is numbered and signed by the artist. Sold unframed. Full Size: 42 cm x 31 cm Image Size: 30 cm x 21 cm £7.00 (inc UK P&P) Please allow up to 14 days for UK delivery. Click to continue reading...

Detailed drawing of Brian Clough and Peter Taylor during their Forest days Click to continue reading...

Yes its that time again - a new PMP competition is upon us!
We have a copy of Michael Sheen's new DVD, 'Your the Boss' to give away to one lucky PMP reader.
Fresh from his critically acclaimed portrayal of the legendary Brian Clough in The Damned United, BAFTA nominated actor Michael Sheen presents a highly entertaining look at some of the most memorable football bosses of all time along with the highs, lows, and just the plain bizarre! Click to continue reading...

New football book titles out this month include We Are The Damned United, another take on Brian Clough's ill-fated stay at Leeds in the 70s, written as a response to David Peace's classic The Damned Utd and an autobiography of BBC football commentator John Motson Motty: Forty Years in the Commentary Box. Click to continue reading...

Sir Alex Ferguson has won 33 trophies in 22 years at the helm of Manchester United, and he was recently recognized for his tremendous success. The makers of Football Manager 2010 had Ferguson topping their poll of the Greatest Manager of All-Time.
The poll features other Knights of the Realm such as the late, great Sir Bobby Robson, Sir Matt Busby and Sir Alf Ramsey but despite their fine records, none of them can match Sir Alex's two decade long domination of the English game. Click to continue reading...

"The Damned United" is a movie that has been much talked about in the soccer community but hardly marketed within the soccer community, which will surly be their most interested group in a soccer hungry nation as the United States.

The film profiling the legendary Brian Clough� will be opening tonight October, 23 at the Uptown Theaters with multiple play times and will continue through Thursday October, 29.

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"The Damned United" is a movie that has been much talked about in the soccer community but hardly marketed within the soccer community, which will surly be their most interested group in a soccer hungry nation as the United States.

The film profiling the legendary Brian Clough� will be opening tonight October, 23 at the Uptown Theaters with multiple play times and will continue through Thursday October, 29.

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Sir Alex Ferguson may have a trophy cabinet bursting at the seams, but today football fans have awarded him with an extra-special title – the Greatest Football Manager ever.

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Man United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has been voted as the greatest football manager of all time. Sir Alex came ahead of some of the football greats such as Sir Alf Ramsey, Sir Bobby Robson and Sir Matt Busby.
This poll was carried out by the makers of Football Manager 2010, here are the top 10 football managers of all time, voted for by the public. Click to continue reading...

A recent poll carried out by Sports Interactive has confirmed what we United fans have known for sometime. Sir Alex Ferguson is by far the greatest manager to have ever graced the game of football.

Football fans who play the popular Football Manager game series were polled to see who they hold in highest regard with Fergie coming out on top; head and shoulders above anyone else.

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Sir Alex Ferguson is assured legendary status in football and his achievements have been recognised by football fans worldwide - even those that prefer spending their days playing Football Manager than playing football.

Ferguson topped a poll carried out by Sports Interactive (makers Football Manager 2010) with 26 per cent of the vote.

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Some fortuitous camera work by webbo2604 in the Upper Brian Clough Stand (thanks to DeepingRed for pointing it out in the comments on the Match Report) gives you an early view of the Moose in action, latching on the flick Dele puts onto McKenna's frankly hopeful lob into the box! It's amusing to see him disappear [. Click to continue reading...

The American release of The Damned United, the story of Brian Clough's relationship with Peter Taylor and their reign at Derby County and Leeds United, has now expanded to San Diego, Chicago and Cambridge. The film is now playing in nine movie theatres nationwide so if you live near any of these theatres, be sure to support the film and the beautiful game.

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Fabio Capello thinks Trevor Francis was the best Englishman to play in Italy. Trevor Francis thinks Fabio Capello is the new Brian Clough. Is Marlon Harewood misunderstood? Not by me I think he's great and one of my all-time favourite players. Finally, was Billy Davies due for the sack even [...] Read the original post [. Click to continue reading...

Dirty, dirty Leeds. Dirty fucking Leeds. After reading David Peace's novel The Damned Utd these words cycled through my head for days. They work as an obsessive refrain in Peace's account of Brian Clough's infamous 44 days as the manager of (dirty, dirty) Leeds.

I knew nothing about Clough, Leeds, and this bizarre story before reading Peace's novel.

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First things first: the excellent movie "The Damned United" opens today in Los Angeles.

The studio and producers face an uphill battle persuading American soccer fans in general (most of whom have probably not heard of late English manager Brian Clough, who is the film's subject) let alone general movie-goers to see this film, but both constituencies will enjoy this film that I highly recommend.

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Tom Hopper's The Damned United is a fun British sports drama based on David Pearce's novel of the same name. Starring Michael Sheen as Clough, the film opens in select U.S. theaters today (it already ran in the U.K. and Ireland). It tells the story of Brian Clough's tumultuous 44 days in charge of Leeds United in 1974.

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Wow, a triple threat. A futbol movie, about Leed's United (my favorite former EPL team, now leading the 1st Division and primed to return!) and a great story. It's been covered by NPR and is receiving special screenings on both coasts. I've put in a request to my favorite indie theater, The Moxie, to find out if they'll be bringing the film to our area.

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Wow, a triple threat. A futbol movie, about Leed's United (my favorite former EPL team, now leading the 1st Division and primed to return!) and a great story. It's been covered by NPR and is receiving special screenings on both coasts. I've put in a request to my favorite indie theater, The Moxie, to find out if they'll be bringing the film to our area.

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Dirty, dirty Leeds. Dirty fucking Leeds. After reading David Peace's novel The Damned UTD these words cycled through my head for days. They work as an obsessive refrain in David Peace's account of Brian Clough's infamous 44 days as the manager of (dirty, dirty) Leeds.
I knew nothing about Clough, Leeds, and this bizarre story before reading Peace's novel - that I enjoyed the book, and felt as if Clough himself, in all his puerile genius, had wormed his way into my head is as good a testimony as I can give to the intensity and distinctiveness of Peace's writing. Click to continue reading...

Read the column here.

(Sadly the wit and wisdom of Brian Clough - or at least my attempted tribute to it in the last line of that column is apparently lost on the copy editors here; it should read "the top one," singular, not plural).

Check out the trailer.

I had the pleasure of speaking recently with actor Michael Sheen about the film and his role as Brian Clough.

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The Damned United debuts in American movie theaters this Friday, October 9th and, courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics, with an exclusive clip from the film which features without a doubt the best line from the film.

Click on the above video to watch Brian Clough on his first day as manager of Leeds United.

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To mark the US release of The Damned United in New York and LA on October 9, Sony Classic Pictures has asked us to give away a pair of movies posters (pictured above) to our awesome and super sexy readers. So, that's what we're doing. Right now.

Here's how this is going to work:

-Email me your favorite Brian Clough quote at Brooks[at]DirtyTackle.

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I was sitting in a plush screening room at the Sony Pictures Lot in Culver City, CA just a short walk down the hallway to anything and everything Spider-Man (hell, Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst may have been on premises for all I know – the studio lot was so infested with Spider-Man promos) but when The Damned United kicked-off I was no longer in warm Los Angeles.

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There is a thin line between being a mad genius and simply being mad.� If Brian Clough was the mad genius of English football, the new film The Damned United explores Clough's simply mad stage when he got fired at Derby County and then, after 44 days in charge of Leeds United, got himself dismissed there as well.

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Episode 140 of the EPL Talk Podcast features an interview with Michael Sheen, the star of The Damned United, the new motion picture about the life of Brian Clough.

The podcast episode also features a discussion with EPL Talk correspondent Eric Altshule who gives a mini-review of the film.

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This week's Ultimate 11's is new blogger Ashley Straws' Derby County. Now all you tennage glory hunters probably won't remember but Derby County were a top team back in the day, in fact they won the old Division 1 championship in 1972 and 1975.

Do you really know your clubs proud history or are you just a teenage glory hunter?

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I'm tempted to say it was dark, but it wasn't; it was just darker than I expected. The book was dark. The book was a kind of mildewy cave of rhetoric that, not unlike Brian Clough himself, could have happily contained your wine collection. The movie was...well, it was a celebration of friendship.

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Well you've got to hand it to him, Gary Megson must have the thickest skin in professional football. I've seen him barracked by his own fans at 4 different clubs over the years and that's some going, even in the fickle world of the football supporter. At a Nottingham Forest game, I saw fans come to blows trying to get to him, at Leicester I saw a fan throw his season ticket at him in his 3rd game in charge.

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It's not often I'm happy to see Man United win, and while a draw yesterday in the Man City derby would have been a better result for Arsenal, the fact that Man U won 4-3 meant I was £150 richer for the sake of a £1 bet and Mark Hughes now knows how it feels when the officials fuck up and it costs you the game.

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Video footage of the Bellamy incident After the jump you can watch the Brian Clough punch-up which Mark Hughes compared the incident to. Hughes said: "I did not see it but the guy should not have been on the pitch. That is not acceptable. Brian Clough clipped someone's ear. He was lauded a national hero. Click to continue reading...

Mark Hughes on the Bellamy incident:

"I seem to recal Brian Clough clipping someone around the ear and he was lauded as a national hero. Maybe it will be the same case with Craig but I doubt it".

I'd imagine both Bellamy and the fan who came onto the pitch are probably going to be hearing a lot more about this. Click to continue reading...