The Glory Game
The New Edition of the British Football Classic
$34.50
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
6 January 2000
Summary
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. ‘Brilliant, vicious, unmerciful,’ wrote The Sun.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781840182422 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1840182423 |
| Author: | Hunter Davies |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Mainstream Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Edition: | 3rd |
| Release Date: | 6 January 2000 |
| Weight: | 276g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 131mm x 25mm |
| Series: | Mainstream sport |
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Critics Review
Still the definitive football text … this book is indispensable
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 the World Football Yearbook
About The Author
Hunter Davies
Hunter Davies is the author of over 30 books, including such classics as A Walk Around the Lakes and the authorised biography of The Beatles. As a journalist he has contributed to the Sunday Times, The Independent, the Daily Mail and the New Statesman, while as a broadcaster he has presented many programmes for BBC Radio 4.
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