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Rocky - The Tears and Triumphs of David Rocastle (Hardcover)
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Rocky - The Tears and Triumphs of David Rocastle (Hardcover)
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In spring 1998, David Rocastle was sitting in the stands at
Highbury watching his beloved Arsenal close in on the Premier
League title. On the pitch were many of those he had played with
earlier in his career. But now, at the age of 30, when he should
have been at his peak, injuries meant he was out of the game.
Within three years, he would be dead after suffering from
non-Hodgkin lymphoma, an aggressive form of cancer. It was a loss
that devastated his family, and was keenly felt by team-mates and
football fans across the country. James Leighton tells the
extraordinary story of a boy whose footballing dreams all came
true, but whose time at the top was cut short. When former Arsenal
chairman David Dein first saw the 16-year-old Rocastle in action,
he rushed home saying: 'I've seen the nearest thing to a Brazilian
you'll ever see in our Academy - and he's from Lewisham!' A year
later he was in the first XI, and by the time he was 20 he had won
the League Cup. In 1989, he was part of the team that won the
league title in the most dramatic circumstances, with virtually the
last kick of the season. Rocastle moved on from Arsenal in 1992,
but injuries increasingly hampered his career. Now, in Rocky, we
hear from friends, family and team-mates what he was really like,
on and off the field. As we do, we understand why it is that
Arsenal fans still regularly chant his name almost 25 years since
he left the club and why he is one of the select few to have their
portraits permanently displayed on the exterior of the Emirates
Stadium.
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