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Flight to Bogota - England's Football Rebel, Neil Franklin (Paperback)
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Flight to Bogota - England's Football Rebel, Neil Franklin (Paperback)
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List price R405
Loot Price R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
You Save R75 (19%)
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Flight to Bogota tells the incredible story of one of the most
infamous episodes in English sporting history, when a group of
British footballers turned their backs on club and country before
the 1950 World Cup for a sporting El Dorado in Colombia. It was a
rebellion led by first-choice England centre-half Neil Franklin.
The book charts how the players were secretly lured away from
Britain, amid Franklin's strident complaints of 'serfdom' in
English football, their brief struggles to adapt to Colombian life
and the fallout once they humiliatingly returned home to face the
wrath of club and country. This escapade was a personal failure for
Franklin and left his career in tatters. But the players'
vociferous defence of their behaviour enlightened a shocked nation
about how clubs mistreated footballers. Ultimately, it led to
reforms that would financially benefit future footballing
generations, but hopes of vast riches proved nothing more than an
illusion for Franklin and his fellow 'football bandits' as they
embarked on their 'Flight to Bogota'.
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