A Summer Sky

Finished off the pictures from last week and got them sent away, just in time to get ready for tomorrow's job at the Acting Out Showcase. In the evening we joined K for a glass of fizz on the beach to mark the start of the weekend. Later we watched a film on TV - The Damned United. We'd seen it before but it's very watchable. The film isn't as dark as the book, but it's still very interesting to watch - the way that the clash of personalities between Brian Clough and Don Revie's great Leeds team of the late 1960s/early 1970s ended with Clough losing the battle but arguably winning the war. That Leeds team had just one season left in them - reaching the European Cup Final the same season as Clough's earlier failure - but losing out to Bayern Munich and Michel Kitabdjian (the referee that denied two clear penalties and disallowed a goal he had originally awarded after pressure from Franz Beckenbauer). Had Clough and the team not locked horns perhaps the transition could have been better managed and maybe it would have been Leeds, not Nottingham Forest, that Clough would lead to consecutive European Cups.