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Legends at the Lane is an independent compilation of match worn
shirts from iconic periods, players and games and the long and
illustrious history of Sheffield United football club. Featuring
the iconic jerseys worn by Blades heroes in FA Cup final wins and
semi-final losses, derby-day victories over city rivals Wednesday
and the historic 1970/91 promotion season, Legends at the Lane aims
to capture the literal fabric of Sheffield United. But it is more
than just a history of the colours worn by the great and good of
Bramall Lane history. This impressive, full-colour, hardback,
coffee-table style book - with a foreword from legendary striker
Brian Deane - will bring the shirts to life; capturing and
featuring the stories of some of the most iconic players to have
worn that iconic badge, in some of the most iconic games in the
club's history.
He is the larger-than-life figure who bounced back from rejection
at 16 and graduated from parks pitches to become a Premier League
goalkeeper, and later represent his country. Paddy Kenny's career
was certainly not straightforward... just like his life. In his
autobiography, Kenny lifts the lid on his time on and off the
football field - including dressing-room rucks, being beaten for
the Premier League's most famous goal and having his eyebrow bitten
off in a curry house, just days before he faced Cristiano Ronaldo,
Wayne Rooney and Manchester United. This is Kenny's story... and
the gloves are well and truly off.
In April 2016, as they slumped to their lowest finish since 1983
and anger turned to apathy, Sheffield United was a club on the
floor. A year later, they were reborn; champions of the division,
history-makers on the rise again. And the man who dragged out of
the doldrums was boyhood fan, former ballboy and player and now
manager, Chris Wilder. His story is probably as close to a
fairytale as modern football allows. Fifteen years after managing
in a Sheffield Sunday League, Wilder has established a reputation
as one of English football's brightest talents after tasting
success, often against a destabilising backdrop of financial
difficulty, at every club he has worked at; including one which had
no footballs. Featuring contributions from players, friends and
acquaintances who know him well, this book explores that
apprenticeship and then how Wilder turned around a sleeping giant,
transformed their fortunes on and off the field and reconnected
club and supporters. Fans hail him as 'one of their own' and under
Wilder, United are united again.
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