Colm Meaney will star in ‘The Damned United’, a biopic of legendary English soccer coach Brian Clough.
According to Variety the 6.5m film will be directed by Tom Hooper from a script by Peter Morgan.
The biopic will tell the dramatic story of controversial football manager Clough and his turbulent 44-day reign as the coach of Leeds United in 1974.
Michael Sheen, who played Tony Blair in ‘The Queen’, the previous collaboration between Morgan and Harries, is set to play Clough.
Timothy Spall will take the role of his sidekick Peter Taylor; Jim Broadbent will be the chairman of Derby County and Meaney will play rival coach Don Revie.
‘The Damned United’ is due to begin shooting on 25 May.
couple of more recent american football ones which show highschool/college football at a more local level were Friday Night Lights and We Are Marshall. 2 good films based on true stories. The FNL book is a good read, and interesting how the townsfolk got really upset after it was published as it showed them as backward redneck hicks, even though that is what they were. Thousands showing up for highschool games on a Friday night, and people queing days beforehand to make sure they got tickets.
WAM is about a college team that was killed in an air crash coming back from a game. All the squad except for a couple of players injured who werent on board were killed. film shows how the school football program had to be rebuilt and shows how the town got over it. Marshall won a few big 10 college bowls in the years after, and Randy Moss is probably the most famous student to come out of there in the game now.