The Glory Game (Mainstream Sport)

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First released four months before the 1966 World Cup, John Moynihan’s The Soccer Syndrome is more a personal ode to post-war football, Brylcreem and all, rather than any kind of assessment of England’s chances at the upcoming tournament. Interesting to compare to 'Brave New World: inside Pochettino's Spurs' which I enjoyed equally as much. A season of joy, tragedy, hilarity and courage draws to a shabby close with the team throwing a game as a player reminds the author: “Remember, we are the land of Dante but also of Machiavelli. As a journalist, he has a column in The Sunday Times about money and in the New Statesman about football.

Glory Game by Hunter Davies - AbeBooks The Glory Game by Hunter Davies - AbeBooks

Davies joined the sixth form at Carlisle Grammar School and was awarded a place at University College, Durham to read for an honours degree in History, but after his first year he switched to a general arts course. The players in the 70's were much more accessible than today and it was cool to see how relaxed they were in giving Davies accounts of their personal lives.Davies has quoted his boyhood hero as being football centre-forward, Billy Houliston, of Davies' then local team, Queen of the South. In this book, be warned, the final chapters documenting the demise of his wife to cancer are as grim as anything I've read about old age and illness. Davies certainly had unprecedented access to Spurs and really gives you the dirt and grime he encounters.

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Live from London Stadium, West Ham hosts Arsenal in a game that kicks off at 3:30 PM ET, live on ESPN+.Football Association (FA) officials will inform English clubs that players are to avoid a specific phrase on social media. Premium Digital includes access to our premier business column, Lex, as well as 15 curated newsletters covering key business themes with original, in-depth reporting. He doesn't pull any punches nor does he fail to recognise each and every contribution or understand how they fit together. The only other book I have read by Hunter Davies is ' The Glory Game', a brilliant study of a season embedded with Tottenham Hotspur FC in the early 1970s. From a childhood spent face-down in the dirt at a rugby school –“I stared at the grass below and, as a heel lashed into my nose, I dreamt of the fruits of the outside world, Association Football”– to watching Pele and Garrincha light up the 1958 World Cup Final over a lovelorn female companion’s shoulder in a Paris café, Moynihan’s focus on events and fandom make this come alive.