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Looking for the Toffees - In Search of the Heroes of Everton (Paperback)
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Looking for the Toffees - In Search of the Heroes of Everton (Paperback)
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Loot Price R212
Discovery Miles 2 120
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In 1977-78, Brian Viner was a season ticket-holder in the Gwladys
Street End at Goodison Park, home to his beloved Everton. In front
of him were the stars of the day: striker Bob Latchford, creative
midfielder Duncan McKenzie and goalkeeping hero George Wood. There
were no airs and graces then: Viner would regularly see Latchford
in the local pub, and even once saw Wood mowing the field at his
school, so asked him to come and join his classmates for a
kickabout, which he did. It would never happen now. But as well as
nostalgia for that period, Viner reveals how this was a time when
so much was on the cusp of change: in football the first wave of
foreign players would arrive the next season, with Ossie Ardiles
and Arnold Muhren among them; on Merseyside, the era of punk would
soon give way to Thatcherism; and even Viner himself, at 16, was on
the verge of adulthood. But little of what happened next could ever
have been predicted. Viner's investigation of that year in the
1970s, based on many interviews with the players of the time, not
only reveals a vanished era, but also shows how football often
fails to look after its own, as the life stories of what happened
to the players afterwards shows, but how the spirit of the sport
will always shine through.
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