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Listed below are comments made by WilliamT-G between Tuesday, 31st March 2009 and Tuesday, 31st March 2009.

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The Damned United from the perspective of someone who hates sport 5:11pm on 31 Mar 2009 I enjoyed it mostly for the opposite reasons expressed in the blog. I am just old enough to remember Don Revie and the players depicted in the film. I have a deep personal association with the city of Leeds and Leeds United football club. I was interested to see how they managed to film outside Elland Road stadium without revealing any of the developments done since the 1970s (and also interested to note how the tremendous amount of construction in those decades has left that corner of South Leeds hardly altered).

I saw an article recently by a "neutral" football writer (it happened to be Patrick Barclay) who did not like either the book or the film of "The Damned United". To me that is futher indication that (so-called) neutral football writers go through life always missing the point. The thing about football is that it is always partisan. The main thing I got from the film was the chance to re-live the achievements of Leeds United from the early 70s. We were (and are, and always shall be) widely despised, but nobody can deny that we were a major club in those days.

I don't really care whether the depiction of Brian Clough and his relationship with Peter Taylor is accurate or not - it made a good, very well-acted story.

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