Clough film doesn’t interest me

I HAVEN’T seen “The Damned United”. I have no intention of seeing the movie or of reading the book that provoked it. I distrust the mixture of ‘fact’ and fiction or, as its called, ‘faction’. Johnny Giles’ disparagement was quite enough for me.

Yet, you can hardly move without some plug slamming you in the face. The Clough family were forewarned enough to support an ITV ‘counter-product’ the other night.

I’m biased. I admit that. I was at Old Trafford the night that Brian Clough died. BBC 5 Live was awash with eulogies and I was asked if I wished to say anything. I responded by saying that I would but ‘they’d’ have to appreciate my remarks were unlikely to be ‘politically correct’. It was their choice.