I recently watched on youtube the Clough/Revie debate as it was aired in 1974.It is absolutely nothing like what the filmed showed.There was no confrontation,no argument just a difference in opinions between the two managers.Also the whole revelation that Clough despised Revie because he didn't shake his hand at the FA Cup game was never said.I don't understand why the filmakers chose to change the events so much.
shareThe total misrepresentation of 'Goodbye Mr Clough' and the rest of the movie was due to the desire to create an easily identifiable hero in in Clough & a villain in Revie. It was the same as the movie 'Cinderella Man' where Ron Howard portrayed Max Baer as a monster to ensure audiences would root for Russell Crowe's James Braddock. Similarly, in the movie 'The Game of their Lives' about the USA's shock victory over England in 1950, a scene where the English mock the Americans was included, again to create a clear heroes & villains scenario. Another example was the TV movie about American runner Steve Prefontaine, where his victor at the 1972 Olympics Lasse Viren was depicted as tall & arrogant aryan, when in fact Viren was an unassuming looking character.
I do find it a bit strange that the writer Peter Morgan would include so many falsehoods in the movie when the true events are so easy to check! Perhaps it would have been better if Morgan and the original author David Peace had fully gone down the 'factional' route, with Ryan Bluff taking over at Clyde United from the departing manager Ron Davy.
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