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The Glory Game
Hunter Davies
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Description for The Glory Game
Paperback. When first published in 1972 this book caused great controversy - Hunter Davies was allowed into the inner sanctums of a top football team and his pen and eyes spared nothing and no-one. Now the controversies have been forgotten, and his work has turned into a classic book on British football. Num Pages: 384 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; WSJA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 26. Weight in Grams: 268.
When the first edition of The Glory Game was published in 1972, it was instantly hailed as the most insightful book about the life of a football club ever published. Hunter Davies was, and still is, the only author ever to be allowed into the inner sanctum of a top-level football team (Tottenham Hotspur) and his pen spared nothing and no one. 'His accuracy is sufficiently uncanny to be embarrassing,' wrote Bob Wilson in the New Statesman. 'Brilliant, vicious, unmerciful,' wrote The Sun. Davies spent a whole season with the team, training with them, visiting ... Read more
When the first edition of The Glory Game was published in 1972, it was instantly hailed as the most insightful book about the life of a football club ever published. Hunter Davies was, and still is, the only author ever to be allowed into the inner sanctum of a top-level football team (Tottenham Hotspur) and his pen spared nothing and no one. 'His accuracy is sufficiently uncanny to be embarrassing,' wrote Bob Wilson in the New Statesman. 'Brilliant, vicious, unmerciful,' wrote The Sun. Davies spent a whole season with the team, training with them, visiting ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Mainstream Publishing
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781840182422
SKU
V9781840182422
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Ref
99-98
About Hunter Davies
HUNTER DAVIES is the author of the only ever authorised biography of The Beatles, still in print in almost every country in the world. In 2012 he edited The Lennon Letters, published in 20 different foreign countries, and in 2014 The Beatles Lyrics. He wrote the first book about the Quarrymen. Plus forty other non-Beatly books, including novels, biographies, travel ... Read more
Reviews for The Glory Game
Still the definitive football text . . . this book is indispensable
FourFourTwo
The Glory Game engages the mind while revealing the soul of the beautiful game
The Herald
Brilliant, anthropological account of life with Tottenham in 1973, before there were press officers and brand managers
David Goldblatt, author of ... Read more
FourFourTwo
The Glory Game engages the mind while revealing the soul of the beautiful game
The Herald
Brilliant, anthropological account of life with Tottenham in 1973, before there were press officers and brand managers
David Goldblatt, author of ... Read more