Best, Pele, and a Half-Time Bovril: A Nostalgic Look at the 1970s - Football's Last Great Decade
For supporters of provincial lightweights like Derby County, Nottingham Forest and Leeds United, their wishes came true in the seventies when they landed the Division One title. It was the decade of the underdog - when the FA cup was still football's Holy Grail and teams like Sunderland, Ipswich and Southampton came up from the sticks to produce their own brand of Wembley magic. It is not like that today. It was the decade when every team had its characters: Stan Bowles, Charlie Gregory, Duncan McKenzie, Frank Worthington, Tony Currie, Rodney Marsh. These personalities are gone now, replaced by an influx of anonymous foreign journeymen. This book harks back to a lost era when the game still belonged to the fans; they could identify with the players, recognise their heroes, and believe they all had a shot at glory. It remembers dramatic matches packed with action and controversy; recalls mercurial managers like Shankly, Clough, Revie and the Doc - and asks the question: who was the finest player from football's last great decade?
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Best, Pele, and a Half-Time Bovril: A Nostalgic Look at the 1970s - Football's Last Great Decade
For supporters of provincial lightweights like Derby County, Nottingham Forest and Leeds United, their wishes came true in the seventies when they landed the Division One title. It was the decade of the underdog - when the FA cup was still football's Holy Grail and teams like Sunderland, Ipswich and Southampton came up from the sticks to produce their own brand of Wembley magic. It is not like that today. It was the decade when every team had its characters: Stan Bowles, Charlie Gregory, Duncan McKenzie, Frank Worthington, Tony Currie, Rodney Marsh. These personalities are gone now, replaced by an influx of anonymous foreign journeymen. This book harks back to a lost era when the game still belonged to the fans; they could identify with the players, recognise their heroes, and believe they all had a shot at glory. It remembers dramatic matches packed with action and controversy; recalls mercurial managers like Shankly, Clough, Revie and the Doc - and asks the question: who was the finest player from football's last great decade?
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Best, Pele, and a Half-Time Bovril: A Nostalgic Look at the 1970s - Football's Last Great Decade

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Best, Pele, and a Half-Time Bovril: A Nostalgic Look at the 1970s - Football's Last Great Decade

Overview

For supporters of provincial lightweights like Derby County, Nottingham Forest and Leeds United, their wishes came true in the seventies when they landed the Division One title. It was the decade of the underdog - when the FA cup was still football's Holy Grail and teams like Sunderland, Ipswich and Southampton came up from the sticks to produce their own brand of Wembley magic. It is not like that today. It was the decade when every team had its characters: Stan Bowles, Charlie Gregory, Duncan McKenzie, Frank Worthington, Tony Currie, Rodney Marsh. These personalities are gone now, replaced by an influx of anonymous foreign journeymen. This book harks back to a lost era when the game still belonged to the fans; they could identify with the players, recognise their heroes, and believe they all had a shot at glory. It remembers dramatic matches packed with action and controversy; recalls mercurial managers like Shankly, Clough, Revie and the Doc - and asks the question: who was the finest player from football's last great decade?

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781782198864
Publisher: John Blake Publishing, Limited
Publication date: 08/01/2014
Pages: 288
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 7.70(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Andrew Smart spent more than 40 years in journalism before he retired to concentrate on writing in 2012. He spent most of his career with the Nottingham Post, before becoming deputy news editor and community news editor. He was also editor of the newspaper’s nostalgia magazine Bygones. He has written books about Nottingham’s past, Coxmoor Golf Club, and a collection of stories about unsung war heroes, Their Names Will Live On.

Table of Contents

Foreword xi

Introduction: Here we Go, Here We Go 1

Chapter 1 En-Ger-Land! 11

Chapter 2 Wembley Wizards 33

Chapter 3 The Giant-Killers 57

Chapter 4 Bertie's Double Winners 71

Chapter 5 Tales from the Boot Room 89

Chapter 6 Clough and Taylor at the Double 111

Chapter 7 The Source of Violence 135

Chapter 8 The Entertainers 153

Chapter 9 THE Managers 175

Chapter 10 Birch is Black 197

Chapter 11 THE Man in the Middle 215

Chapter 12 The Best of the Best 231

Chapter 13 Johnny Foreigners 253

The Honours Board 271

Afterword: In My Opinion 289

Postscript: That was the Seventies, that was 293

Bibliography 329

Acknowledgements 331

Index 333

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