The combined soccer side of Oxford and Cambridge Universities,
Pegasus gained a tremendous following in its brief life. The team
won the F.A. Amateur Cup in 1951 and 1953 before capacity crowds of
100,000 at Wembley. This autobiographical account, by one of the
key players, brings vivid detail to the day-to-day reality of
soccer management, team selection, training and modest celebration,
together with the practicalities of daily life in the 1950s.
Pegasus was the last of the great Amateur football teams and this
fascinating, often humorous book, is a fitting tribute to it. This
Second Edition features additional photographs and an Afterword by
David Miller. Ken Shearwood, now in his late eighties, was an
excellent all-round games player, and at soccer a frankly
uncompromising centre half. who was to become an integral part of
the briefly flowering Pegasus side from Oxford and Cambridge which,
remarkably, twice won the Amateur Cup...After Shearwood retired
from the game, he [taught] - not without considerable difficulty in
the maths area - at Lancing, where he was to stay, as master,
housemaster and registrar for the rest of his working life, serving
under six headmasters. Pen pictures and anecdotes - shrewd, funny,
sparkling, but never unkind - abound, for this is a contented man,
happily married for over fifty years. That great Arsenal and
England footballer Joe Mercer once introduced Ken Shearwood to
Derek Dougan, the Irish International, as the "best centre half in
England"; even if he exaggerated, he may not have been too far from
the truth. Colin Leach, Times Literary Supplement.
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