Michael Sheen as Brian Clough

Timothy Spall as Peter Taylor

Colm Meaney as Don Revie

Jim Broadbent as Sam Longson

Maurice Roëves as Jimmy Gordon

Stephen Graham as Billy Bremner

Henry Goodman as Manny Cossins

Mark Bazeley as Austin Mitchell

Giles Alderson as Colin Todd

Martin Compston as John O'Hare

David Roper as Sam Bolton

Jimmy Reddington as Keith Archer

Peter McDonald as Johnny Giles

Oliver Stokes as Nigel Clough

Ryan Day as Simon Clough

Ralph Ineson as Journalist

Elizabeth Carling as Barbara Clough

Brian McCardie as Dave Mackay

Sydney Wade as Elizabeth Clough

Joe Dempsie as Duncan McKenzie

Mark Cameron as Norman Hunter

Colin Harris as John McGovern

Liam Thomas as Les Coker

Terence Harvey as FA Committee Chairman

Paul Bown as Mike Bamber

Gillian Waugh as Lillian Taylor