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The Footballer Who Could Fly
eBook
ISBN/EAN: 9781446493168
Umbreit-Nr.: 6457237
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 352 S., 2.07 MB
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Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 30.08.2012
Auflage: 1/2012
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Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- <p><b>'Without football, we were strangers under a shared roof. With it, we were father and son.</b> <b></b> <b></b>Inspired by his fathers devotion to Newcastle United and the heroes of yesteryear, Duncan Hamilton brings to life a bygone age telling the story of British football from the hardscrabble 1940s and the never-had-it-so-good 50s right through to the dowdy First Division of the 70s and 80s, and todays slick Premiership. Hamilton recalls some of footballs most sublime players, managers and characters, from Bill Shankly and Jackie Milburn to George Best and Lionel Messi.</p><p>But at the heart of<i>The Footballer Who could Fly</i>is Hamiltons relationship with his own father. Here he tells how football became the only real connection between two people who, apart from their love of the beautiful game, were wholly different from one another.</p>
- Kurztext
- 'Without football, we were strangers under a shared roof. With it, we were father and son. Inspired by his father s devotion to Newcastle United and the heroes of yesteryear, Duncan Hamilton brings to life a bygone age telling the story of British football from the hardscrabble 1940s and the never-had-it-so-good 50s right through to the dowdy First Division of the 70s and 80s, and today s slick Premiership. Hamilton recalls some of football s most sublime players, managers and characters, from Bill Shankly and Jackie Milburn to George Best and Lionel Messi. But at the heart of The Footballer Who could Fly is Hamilton s relationship with his own father. Here he tells how football became the only real connection between two people who, apart from their love of the beautiful game, were wholly different from one another.
- Autorenportrait
- Duncan Hamilton is the author of<i>Provided You Don't Kiss Me: 20 Years with Brian Clough</i>which won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year for 2007. In 2009, he was awarded the William Hill again, for<i>Harold Larwood</i>, as well as winning the prestigious Wisden Book of the Year for 2009 and Biography of the Year at the 2010 British Sports Book Awards. He lives in the Yorkshire Dales.
- Schlagzeile
- <p><b>SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2013</b></p><p><b></b> </p><p><b>T</b><b>he story of one man's life told through the prism of his father and grandfather's love of football.<i></i></b></p>