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Little Wonder is the story of Brian Flynn, the stylish yet
tenacious midfielder from Port Talbot who, in the 1970s and '80s,
enjoyed a successful top flight playing career with Burnley and
Leeds United - where is still held in great affection by fans of
both clubs - before moving on to Cardiff City, Doncaster Rovers,
Bury, Limerick and finally to Wrexham as player manager. Flynn also
won 66 caps for Wales and played a pivotal role when the
rejuvenated national team reached the quarter-finals of the 1976
European Championships and were denied a place at the 1978 World
Cup by Joe Jordan's infamous 'hand of god' at Anfield. Lovingly
crafted by Leon Barton, Little Wonder is also the story of Flynn's
12 years as a club manager with Wrexham where, with solid
team-building and cup heroics, he left a legacy that was
subsequently squandered, and his two-year spell at Swansea City
when he saved the club from relegation from the Football League and
whose immense contribution was subsequently built upon to stunning
effect. It is Brian Flynn's managerial legacy to Welsh
international football, however, that has won him the plaudits of
fellow managers, former teammates, the players themselves, and the
Welsh nation when, as intermediate team manager under John Toshack,
Flynn identified, nurtured and developed the 'golden generation', a
group of talented teenagers and Welsh 'Anglos' who went on to
become, at Euro 2016, most successful Welsh team in 140 years.
Brian Flynn may only stand at 5 foot and 4 inches, but this small
man from the town of steel has made a giant contribution to
football and Little Wonder is his story.
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