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The Football Man - People & Passions in Soccer (Paperback, Re-issue)
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The Football Man - People & Passions in Soccer (Paperback, Re-issue)
Series: Sports Classics
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'Football matters, as poetry does to some people and alcohol does
to others...Football is inherent in the people...There is more
eccentricity in deliberately disregarding it than in devoting a
life to it. The way we play the game, organize it and reward it
reflects the kind of community we are' Written just two years after
England's '66 triumph when the national game was at its zenith,
Arthur Hopcraft's The Football Man is repeatedly quoted as the best
book ever written about the sport. This definitive, magisterial
study of football and society profiles includes interviews with
all-time greats like Bobby Charlton, George Best, Alf Ramsay,
Stanley Matthews, Matt Busby and Nat Lofthouse. It is a snapshot of
a pivotal era in sporting history; changes and decisions were made
in the sixties that would create the game we know today. For many
who are disenchanted with the modern game - the grip of businesses
and corporations, the dominance of advertising, the extortionate
ticket prices and inaccessible matches, the fickleness of teenage
millionaires - The Football Man takes the reader back to the heart
and soul of the national game when pitches were muddy and the
players were footballers not brands. Voted in May 2005 as one of
Observer's top sports books of all time, this is a long-awaited
reissue of the classic football 'bible'. 'Masterpiece among sports
books' Guardian 'It remains one of my favourite football reads'
Graham Taylor
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