Goofs

As Clough and Taylor are talking at the Derby training ground, with the rows of terraced houses behind them, two people behind Clough clearly in the picture, disappear on the close up of Clough. The dog and walkers also vary position throughout the scene.

Brian Clough and Peter Taylor are shown walking along the seafront when they travel to Brighton. When they are filmed looking out to the Channel it can be seen they are walking on level ground. When the shot switches to the opposite direction, it is clear they are walking along a road with a definite downwards slope to it.

The tie against Leeds shows Derby being so badly fouled by the Leeds players they have to field reserves against Juventus. While Derby did suffer some injuries in the tie against Leeds that year, it actually came before their quarter-final match against Spartak Trnava, which Derby still won despite missing some key players. Moreover, the injuries were not as serious as implied in the film, and all the injured players had recovered by the time of the eventual 3-1 defeat by Juventus which was with a near full-strength Derby squad minus two players who were suspended.

The 'snub' of Clough by Don Revie probably never happened as it has never been mentioned by Clough in any of his memoirs and Revie's son Duncan feels it would have been completely out of character for his father to do such a thing.

The 3rd round F.A Cup tie between Leeds and Derby on the 27th of January 1968 depicted in the movie was played in Leeds, not in Derby, making the entire 'Brian cleans up the Baseball Ground' sequence fictional.

The commentator introduces Leeds as the League champions before the 27.01.68 game, but Manchester United were the reigning champions at the time.

In the montage of footage of actual matches showing Derby's rise to the Second Division championship in 1968-69, one of the games is against Everton. Everton haven't played in the Second Divison since 1953-54. The footage is from 1969-70 when both were in Division One. Everton won the league that season.

Brian Clough is shown smoking in the film. His family maintain that he never took up the habit. However in a documentary made in the early 1970's Clough spoke about smoking too much and trying to quit. Perhaps he was careful about not smoking in the company of his family.

Brian Clough seems to resign on behalf of Peter Taylor in the film, but English law makes it impossible to resign on behalf of another person. However, the Derby board may have been unaware that Taylor's resignation letter was a forgery created by Clough, or may have simply not cared about its origin.

Sam Longson says that Dave MacKay has "broken more bones than Evel the Knievel." It's unlikely in 1968 Longson would have known about him as Evel Knievel only became popular in Britain in the mid 1970s.

Allan Clarke is named as a scorer in the 27.01.68 game but he didn't become a Leeds player until 1969.

During the scene where Brian Clough remains in his office during the 2-1 win over Leeds, the crowd can be heard singing a song to the tune of Tom Hark by The Piranhas. Whilst this is an oft heard tune at football games, the Piranhas cover of Tom Hark wasn't actually recorded until 1980.

In the final scene, a modern, solar-powered Pay & Display parking meter is clearly visible in the seaside car park.

When Brian Clough joins the Leeds team in training for the first time the Bridgewater Place building, built in 2007, can clearly be seen in the background.

At the end of the 1968 season when Derby won the Second Division, the audio heard is players singing 'Glory, glory Leeds United' whilst the visual depicts the Derby County players in the baths and changing rooms.

In the film you see a pier call Brighton Pier, yet in the 1970s this was called the Palace Pier or even Brighton Palace Pier. It was also a completely different looking pier to what was seen, it has been refurbished and changed many times since.

Duncan McKenzie is depicted as an idiot in "The Damned United' when in reality he was - and still is - an articulate and witty man.