A good movie

To be honest, my knowledge about football (soccer for the US readers) is rather limited but since this movie was starring Michael Sheen, I was quite eager to check this movie. For Sheen who played Brian Clough here, it was already the 3rd famous British figure he impersonated (before that, he had been also Tony Blair in 'The Queen' and David Frost in 'Frost/Nixon'). And once again, the guy was really impressive. I have to admit it, I actually didn't know who was Brian Clough before watching this movie but Michael Sheen gave such a charismatic performance, he made the whole thing really spellbinding to watch. Concerning the story itself, it was pretty entertaining but I'm not so sure if it was completely effective. I mean, according to the movie, Clough was over-ambitious, blinded by his hatred of Leeds and actually not really good without his assistant, Peter Taylor. But then, at the end, they displayed some archive footage with the conclusion that he was in fact the best English manager that ever existed but I thought it was rather contradictory with the movie itself. Anyway, it was an entertaining flick, it gave a good insight about English football back in those days, I enjoyed it and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre or if you are interested by this subject.