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Fergie helps to push Jonny Evans down the aisle during a press conference
[Off The Post]

Nereida Gallardo is on the cover of Portuguese Maxim
[Poprosa via Kickette]

Revealed: Roma’s terrifying new stadium
[Dirty Tackle]

Dallas have finally won at the Cowboys Stadium, and this couple were keen to celebrate (NSFW)
[Deadspin]

Carlos Tevez won’t be offering Utd fans the courtesy he showed West Ham
[Daily Mail]

Who actually owns Leeds Utd?
[The Guardian]

Luca Toni looks set to join West Ham in January
[The Telegraph]

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Posted: September 30th, 2009 by Ryan Bailey

Trailer: the new Brian Clough film The Damned United


David Peace’s excellent book gets the big screen treatment

The beautiful game has a long tradition in the world of cinema, upheld by fine films such as When Saturday Comes, Fever Pitch, and Soccer Dog: The Movie. The latest addition to the football film canon is The Damned United, which chronicles Brian Clough’s disastrous 44-day stint at Leeds United, the league champions at the time.

The part of Cloughie is played by Michael Sheen (the guy who plays Frost in Frost/ Nixon, not the guy from Apocalypse Now), and also features Jim Broadbent and Timothy Spall.

The 2006 David Peace novel upon which the film is based is very high on The Spoiler’s required reading list, and is revered as one of the greatest football novel ever made.

However, the controversial book, which the author describes as “fiction based upon fact”, has been heavily criticised by Clough’s widow and family, and many loyal admirers are also choosing to boycott the new project.

The film has much to live up to, and we’ll get a chance to see it in UK cinemas on March 27th.

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Posted: January 26th, 2009 by Ryan Bailey

The Murray-less Aussie Open continues


The best sports programming on the telebox tonight

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While Andy Murray will have to make do with losing to a man ranked 38th in the world in the first round of the Australian open, the likes of Federer and Djokovic are still

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Posted: January 14th, 2008 by Ryan Bailey