Title: The Damned Utd
First published: August 17, 2006
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.
Subjects: Literature, Leeds United (Soccer team), Fiction, Social conditions, Soccer, England, fiction, Fiction, sports, Soccer stories