num_pages: 346
description: Overachieving and eccentric football manager Brian Clough was on his way to take over at the country's most successful, and most reviled football club: Leeds United, home to a generation of fiercely competitive but ageing players. The battle he'd face there would make or break the club - or him.David Peace's extraordinarily inventive novel tells the story of a world characterised by fear of failure and hunger for success set in the bleak heart of the 1970s.
language: English
title: The Damned Utd
titlecomplete: The Damned Utd
genres: Fiction, Historical, Football, British Literature, Modern, Soccer, Sports, Novels, Contemporary, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 8093
places: Leeds, Yorkshire, England
publisher: Faber & Faber