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...

It's a standing joke in the-not-from-LA LA footie community that a bit of rain cancels everything.
The U10 lads dominated my weekend, we lost ignominiously 6-2 on Saturday and then exited the 5 v 5 tourney in the first round. I've heard all the excuses, but we were short two lads in the first half on Saturday, and robbed of 4 minutes playing time in the first of two games on Sunday. Click to continue reading...

It's a standing joke in the-not-from-LA LA footie community that a bit of rain cancels everything.
The U10 lads dominated my weekend, we lost ignominiously 6-2 on Saturday and then exited the 5 v 5 tourney in the first round. I've heard all the excuses, but we were short two lads in the first half on Saturday, and robbed of 4 minutes playing time in the first of two games on Sunday. 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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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...

Karen Carney and Kelly Smith got the two against Germany's 6 - the dream of England's women wasn't to be. But the lasses final was England's first final since the year of Hope Powell's birth. She's magic she is. It's just a bit pathetic that it wasn't on live TV here.
Fabio did the business against Slaven. Click to continue reading...

Karen Carney and Kelly Smith got the two against Germany's 6 - the dream of England's women wasn't to be. But the lasses final was England's first final since the year of Hope Powell's birth. She's magic she is. It's just a bit pathetic that it wasn't on live TV here.
Fabio did the business against Slaven. Click to continue reading...

There is an ingredient in Diet Coke that stops it from fizzing up like crazy at the soda fountain. Whatever that ingredient is, it's not approved in the EU, so Diet Coke fizzes up like crazy either when you serve it as a member of staff or when you serve yourself.
There are ingredients in Diet Irn Bru that prevent it from being distributed in the United States in it's original recipe. Click to continue reading...

There is an ingredient in Diet Coke that stops it from fizzing up like crazy at the soda fountain. Whatever that ingredient is, it's not approved in the EU, so Diet Coke fizzes up like crazy either when you serve it as a member of staff or when you serve yourself.
There are ingredients in Diet Irn Bru that prevent it from being distributed in the United States in it's original recipe. Click to continue reading...

Earlier this year, we sent Ted Carter to the cinema with a paper bag containing some crab paste sandwiches and a ticket for the movie version of David Peace's 2006 novel, "The Damned United". The film is released on DVD next Monday, so we thought that it was time to revisit this interpretation of Brian Clough's forty-four days at Leeds United.

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All the stuff being covered outside the unfriendly confines of the award winning Dirty Tackle...

More from SWP's charity event Steve Sidwell says people yell "Ginger!" at him on the streets and he has no desire to weigh in on the Jordan and Peter business. [ChannelBee]

Though he didn't even play, Flamengo fans still came through on their warning of revenge when Corinthians came to town by proclaiming Fat Ronaldo to be the "King of The Transvestites.

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Well, I didn't think it would happen, but thankfully it has. Sony Pictures has decided to bring The Damned United to U.S. movie screens.

The adaptation of the controversial novel by author David Peace about the 44 day period that Brian Clough spent as manager of Leeds United will be released this Fall.

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The Australian Financial Review ran a great story in its Review pages this Friday, 'Pitch black: England and its national game in the 1970s' by Dominic Sandbrook. It was inspired by David Peace's book 'The Damned United' which will be released here in August.
I was very young in 1974 playing for the Redbacks. Click to continue reading...

So Malcolm Crosby believes Arsene Wenger is a fan of Gareth Southgate and the job he is doing:

Arsene Wenger is very complimentary towards Gareth and what he's trying to do and if he thinks that then maybe we're doing something right.

I am personally of the belief that Southgate is a good young coach but that maybe the current Boro job is too much for such an inexperienced manager.

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The young Brian Clough?Just seen Michael Sheen on Jonathan Ross (that's me crazy guy, crazy Friday night) and I'm looking forward to The Damned United film. And I enjoyed the book.I'm sorry that the Clough family have been upset but it is, essentially, a fictionalised account of real events involving Brian Clough. Click to continue reading...

The young Brian Clough?Just seen Michael Sheen on Jonathan Ross (that's me crazy guy, crazy Friday night) and I'm looking forward to The Damned United film. And I enjoyed the book.I'm sorry that the Clough family have been upset but it is, essentially, a fictionalised account of real events involving Brian Clough. Click to continue reading...

One of the most eagerly anticipated movies of the year is scheduled to debut on March 27 when "The Damned United," the story of Brian Clough's 44-day reign as manager at Leeds United, hits the silver screen in the United Kingdom. This promises not to be just another football movie. Based on the novel by acclaimed [. Click to continue reading...