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Centurions - England's 100 Club (Hardcover)
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Centurions - England's 100 Club (Hardcover)
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The Fab Five who won a century of England caps epitomised their
ages! Billy Wright sprinkled glamour on to a nation desperate to
throw off post-war austerity. He married a Beverley Sister, the
Spice Girls of his generation, and played at Wolverhampton
Wanderers, where they made the first great experiment in European
football, under floodlights. Bobby Moore represented the cool of
the sixties. As happy mixing with movie stars as the general
public, Moore was a man of the people, an East End lad made good.
The image of him walking from the players exit at Upton Park and
tossing a set of keys to a group of boys to unlock his Jaguar sums
up his approach to life. Long after he had retired, Bobby Charlton
was the single English name most recognised abroad and remains the
top scorer for his country. He is still regarded as the finest
player ever to pull on an England shirt and was pivotal to Alf
Ramsey's plans for success in '66. Peter Shilton kept goal in two
of English footballs pivotal moments, the defeat by Poland in 1973
and the World Cup semi-final with West Germany 17 years later. He
summed up a generation of footballers who liked a pint and a bet
but who would give everything for a shirt with Three Lions on it.
He is regarded as perhaps England's greatest 'keeper. David Beckham
represents the present celebrity age, completing the circle from
the Billy Wright era. But it emphasised how the game had changed.
Footballers never earned big money in Wrights era thanks to the
maximum wage, whereas the multi millions put Beckham into a
financial class of his own. The Fab Five could soon to be expanded
to eight as Ashley Cole Steven Gerrard and Frank Lampard approach
their respective tons. Harry Harris tells the tale of each of the
England centurions and with it the era he played in from the 1950s
and England's emergence from post-war gloom, through the glory of
'66 to the present day trials and tribulations of a national team
seemingly never far from controversy.
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