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Two Brothers (Paperback)
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Two Brothers (Paperback)
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List price R473
Loot Price R435
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You Save R38 (8%)
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Two Brothers tells the story of a great sporting family, uncovering
new details, exposing myths and placing Jack and Bobby Charlton in
their historical context. It's a book about two English footballers
but also about English football and England itself. In later life
Jack and Bobby didn't get on and barely spoke but the lives of
these very different brothers from the coalfield tell the story of
late twentieth-century English football: the tensions between flair
and industry, between individuality and the collective, between
right and left, between middle- and working-classes, between exile
and home. Jack was open, charismatic, selfish and pig-headed; Bobby
was guarded, shy, polite and reserved to the point of
reclusiveness. They were very different footballers: Jack a
gangling central defender who developed a profound tactical
intelligence; Bobby an athletic attacking midfielder who disdained
systems. They played for clubs who embodied two very different
approaches, the familial closeness and tactical cohesion of Leeds
on the one hand and the individualistic flair and clashing egos of
Manchester United on the other. Both enjoyed great success as
players: Jack won a league, a Cup and two Fairs Cups with Leeds;
Bobby won a league title, survived the terrible disaster of the
plane crash in Munich, and then at enormous emotional cost, won a
Cup and two more league titles before capping it off with the
European Cup. Together, for England, they won the World Cup. Their
managerial careers followed predictably diverging paths, Bobby
failing at Preston while Jack enjoyed success at Middlesbrough and
Sheffield Wednesday before leading Ireland to previously
un-imagined heights. Both were financially very successful, but
Jack remained staunchly left-wing while Bobby tended to
conservatism. In the end, Jack returned to Northumberland; Bobby
remained in the North-West. Two Brothers tells a story of social
history as well as two of the most famous football players of their
generation. Praise for Inverting the Pyramid: A History of Football
Tactics 'If Jonathan Wilson's first book Behind the Curtain, marked
him as the rising star of Sports literature, Inverting the Pyramid
confirms his place among our very best sports writers' 'Simply one
of the best books ever written about the world's game' Dominic
Sandbrook Praise for Nobody Ever Says Thank You: The Biography of
Brian Clough 'In separating the man from the myth, Jonathan
Wilson's biography of Brian Clough is the first to do him justice'
Barney Ronay The Observer 'Jonathan Wilson's mighty new biography'
Harry Pearson When Saturday Comes
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