When Footballers Were Skint

A Journey in Search of the Soul of Football

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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Tales from before the maximum wage for footballers was abolished in 1961, journalist Jon Henderson captures a time when footballers and fans lived in the same world.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-03-05
Mått197 x 131 x 23 mm
Vikt276 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor336
FörlagBiteback Publishing
ISBN9781785904660

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Jon Henderson has written about football as a journalist and author for more than fifty years. He progressed from covering Rushden Town for the Northants Evening Telegraph in the 1960s to filing stories for Reuters on Diego Maradona's antics in winning the World Cup for Argentina in 1986. Since then he has written on football for The Observer and Guardian and his biography of Stanley Matthews was shortlisted for Football Book of the Year in 2013. His other books include a biography of the tennis champion Fred Perry, which was shortlisted for Sports Biography of the Year in 2009 and was a Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4.