The characters still make horrible choices which impact their immediate families and friends, but the looming dread and depression are
replaced by a lighter air, snappy one - liners, and does its best to keep the
grief off screen.
The bilious, paranoid inner - monologue that makes the book more dramatic — and truer — than any biography could hope to be has been
replaced by the pat love story of Clough and his assistant, Peter Taylor (Timothy Spall), which comes to
grief when Clough hubristically hands in their resignations at Derby and is horrified to learn that Sam Longson (Jim Broadbent), the club's old - school chairman, has accepted them.