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The Last Champions - Leeds United and the Year that Football Changed Forever (Paperback)
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The Last Champions - Leeds United and the Year that Football Changed Forever (Paperback)
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List price R339
Loot Price R277
Discovery Miles 2 770
You Save R62 (18%)
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When the Leeds United players celebrated winning the championship
in April 1992, they had no idea how momentous the occasion was.
Manchester United, losers at Liverpool that Sunday afternoon, had
now gone 25 years without winning the league. Howard Wilkinson's
side, promoted just two seasons ago, could bring back the glory
days to Leeds. But Wilkinson would prove to be the last English
manager to win the league. In 1992, football changed beyond all
recognition. The Last Champions explores the roots of that success
and the amazing cast of characters who came together to fashion the
triumph. As in his acclaimed book The Fallen, Dave Simpson's quest
to catch up with the protagonists of the era, from the visionary
Sergeant Wilko, top scorer Lee Chapman and unsung heroes like Mike
Whitlow and Carl Shutt (not forgetting Eric Cantona), sees him
unearth some extraordinary untold stories. And he finds that The
Last Champions were also the last ordinary people to win the
league, before the Premier League saw skyrocketing wages,
billionaire foreign owners and the dictates of television taking
the game away from the fans. It is the brilliantly told story of
the end of an era.
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