Overachieving and eccentric football manager Brian Clough was on his way to take over at the countrys most successful, and most reviled football club: Leeds 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 Peaces extraordinarily inventive novel tells the story of a world charac Overachieving and eccentric football manager Brian Clough was on his way to take over at the countrys most successful, and most reviled football club: Leeds 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 Peaces extraordinarily inventive novel tells the story of a world characterised by fear of failure and hunger for success set in the bleak heart of the 1970s.