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Acknowledgements
The author would like to thank John Hughson for his comments, in particular drawing attention to the Malamud and Schulberg texts, and the regionally-based ‘feel-good’ films (e.g. Billy Elliott and Brassed Off).
Notes
1 CitationDayan and Katz, Media Events.
2 CitationClose, Askew and Xu, The Beijing Olympiad.
3 CitationMann, The China Fantasy.
4 CitationLefebvre, The Production of Space.
1 CitationRunciman, ‘Introduction’, 4.
2 CitationOllman, Alienation.
1 CitationPeace, The Damned Utd, 349.
2 CitationWagg, ‘Angels of Us All’.
3 Peace, The Damned Utd, 15. Italics are original in all quotes from the novel.
4 Peace, The Damned United, 21.
5 Peace, The Damned United, 15.
6 Peace, The Damned United, 5.
7 For example, the DVD release of the ITV documentary Clough (ITV Sport 2009) contains as ‘extras’ the two 1974 ‘Calendar’ programmes featuring Clough's arrival at Leeds and his ‘head-to-head’ confrontation with Revie.
8 Peace, The Damned Utd, 8.
9 CitationVan Sommers, Jealousy, 1.
10 Peace, The Damned Utd, 9.
11 Peace, The Damned United, 301.
12 Peace, The Damned United
13 Peace, The Damned United, 11.
14 Peace, The Damned United, 10.
15 CitationKlein, Envy and Gratitude.
16 Klein explains that ‘envy is the angry feeling that another person possesses and enjoys something desirable – the envious impulse being to take it away or to spoil it … Jealousy is based on envy, but involves a relation to at least two people; it is mainly concerned with love that the subject feels is his due and has been taken away, or is in danger of being taken away from him by his rival.’ Envy and Gratitude, 181.
17 Klein explains that ‘envy is the angry feeling that another person possesses and enjoys something desirable – the envious impulse being to take it away or to spoil it … Jealousy is based on envy, but involves a relation to at least two people; it is mainly concerned with love that the subject feels is his due and has been taken away, or is in danger of being taken away from him by his rival.’ Envy and Gratitude, 182.
18 This analysis draws on Eve Sedgwick's argument that there is a ‘continuum’ from the undercurrent of ‘desire’ in ‘homosocial’ male interrelations, often described as heterosexual ‘male bonding’, and homosexuality, but that the ‘visibility’ of this continuum ‘for men, in our society, is radically disrupted’. CitationSedgwick, Between Men, 1–2.
19 The Damned United is not unique in its dramatic focus on masculine jealousy in an almost exclusively male homosocial environment in which female characters have hardly any speaking parts. The male love triangle at the heart of Spartacus (1960) is perhaps the archetypal case (CitationYates, Masculine Jealousy, 28). But The Damned United is unusual in overtly foregrounding and drawing attention both to the theme of jealousy and its homoerotic underpinnings.
20 In Peller's psychoanalytic classification of forms of play, sport is the institutionalized enactment of the resolved Oedipus Complex and acceptance of symbolic ‘paternal’ authority (CitationPeller, ‘Linal Phases), but as the film's love triangle between Clough, the paternal Revie and maternal Taylor illustrates, at the core of sport's appeal and fascination is its facilitating of a psychodynamic tension between the post-Oedipal and both Oedipal and pre-Oedipal forms of fantasy and play for participants and spectators alike. For further discussion of this argument, see CitationFree, ‘Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Sport’, 276.
21 CitationStam, Film Theory, 27.
22 Sheen played Kenneth Williams in Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa! (BBC4, 2006), Tony Blair twice (The Deal [Channel 4, 2003] and The Queen [Granada, 2006]), and David Frost in Frost/Nixon (Universal, 2008).
1 See CitationHill, Sport and the Literary Imagination.
2 CitationNaughton, Goalkeeper's Revenge; CitationDavies, Striker; CitationGlanville, Goalkeepers are Different; CitationDart, ‘Confessional Tales’.
3 CitationHopcraft, The Football Man, 12.
4 CitationAndrews and Jackson, Sport Star; CitationCashmore and Parker, ‘One David Beckham?’; CitationDouglas and Jamieson, ‘A Farewell to Remember’; CitationLee, Jackson and Lee, ‘South Korea's “Glocal” Hero’; CitationNalapat and Parker, ‘Sport, Celebrity and Popular Culture’; CitationSmart, The Sport Star; CitationWalton, ‘Steve Prefontaine’; CitationWhannel, Media Sports Stars.
5 CitationCarter, The Football Manager. See also CitationKelly and Waddington, ‘Abuse, Intimidation and Violence’.
6 The book is titled The Damned Utd, whilst the film is titled The Damned United.
7 The Damned Utd was the subject of Britain's leading serious arts television programme, The South Bank Show, which in over 700 episodes had not previously featured a sports-related topic.
8 In 1977 Hartlepools United changed its name to Hartlepool United. They currently play alongside Leeds United in the English Football League One.
9 CitationPeace, The Damned Utd, 83.
10 R. Nikkhah, ‘The Damned United: Football Manager Brian Clough's Family to Boycott Film about his Life’. The Daily Telegraph, March 7, 2009. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/4952562/Football-manager-Brian-Cloughs-family-to-boycott-film-about-his-life.html.
11 F. Wynne, ‘Clough Justice. Giles’ Anger at Damned Utd's Portrayal of Former Boss Brian'. The Sun, March 25, 2009, 21.
12 J. Mullen, ‘The Damned Utd.’ The Guardian, August 8, 2009, Guardian Book Club, 5.
13 M. Dickinson, ‘The Panned United is Still a Work of Genius’. The Times, March 3, 2009. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/columnists/matt_dickinson/article5835251.ece.
14 C. McLean, ‘The Damned United: They Shoot, They Score’. The Daily Telegraph, March 23, 2009. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/starsandstories/5024031/The-Damned-United-they-shoot-they-score.html.
15 CitationOriad, Dreaming of Heroes; CitationCarino, ‘History as Myth’; CitationBaker, Contesting Identities, 124.
16 CitationLev, ‘The Future’.
17 ‘Bremner Bully Role Damned’. News of the World, January 25, 2009, 43.
18 CitationStorey, This Sporting Life; CitationSillitoe, The Loneliness of the Long-distance Runner. See CitationHughson, ‘Why He Must Run’.
19 CitationRowe, ‘Time and Timelessness’.
21 Nikkhah, ‘The Damned United’; see also O. Gibson, ‘Clough Family Boycott Film of Legendary Manager's Life’. The Guardian, March 7, 2009. http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/mar/07/2.
22 Whannel, Media Sports Stars; CitationBale, Christensen and Pfister, Writing Lives in Sport; CitationWoolridge, ‘These Sporting Lives’.
23 The Leeds players with auto/biography are Bale, Bremner!; CitationSaffer, Sniffer; CitationGray, Marching on Together; CitationHunter, Biting Talk; CitationSaffer, The Life and Times of Mick Jones; CitationJordan, Behind the Dream; CitationLorimer and Rostron, Peter Lorimer; CitationSaffer, Leeds United Rolls Royce; CitationSprake and Johnson, Careless Hands; CitationYorath and Lloyd, Hard Man, Hard Knocks.
24 Bale, Bremner!, 123.
25 Peace, The Damned Utd, 169.
26 During the period between 1968 and 1974 Leeds won the League Championships twice (1968/69 and 1973/74), and were runners-up in 1969/70, 1970/71 and 1971/72. They won the League Cup in 1968, and the FA Cup in 1972 (being runners-up in 1970 and 1973). They won the Inter-Cities Fairs Cups in 1968 and 1971 (runners-up in 1967), and were losing finalists in the European Cup Winners Cup in 1973.
27 CitationDavies, The Glory Game; CitationBagchi and Rogerson, The Unforgiven.
28 CitationRostron, We are the Damned United.
29 CitationTaylor, With Clough By Taylor, 106.
30 CitationTaylor, With Clough By Taylor, 110.
31 CitationTaylor, With Clough By Taylor, 111.
32 CitationMurphy, His Way; CitationArmitage, Cloughie; CitationWilliams, Brian Clough.
33 CitationClough, Clough. The Autobiography, 139–40.
34 Clough, Cloughie.
35 Carter, The Football Manger.
36 CitationShaw, Clough's War.
37 CitationEdwards, Right Place Right Time.
38 CitationHamilton, Provided You Don't Kiss Me. Details of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year available at http://www.williamhillmedia.com/sportsbook_index.asp.