Overachieving and eccentric football manager Brian Clough was on his way totake over at the countrys most successful and most reviled football clubLeeds United ... » 

Overachieving and eccentric football manager Brian Clough was on his way totake over at the countrys most successful and most reviled football clubLeeds United home to a generation of fiercely competitive but ageing players.The battle hed face there would make or break the club or him. David Peacesextraordinarily inventive novel tells the story of a world characterised byfear of failure and hunger for success set in the bleak heart of the 1970s. «