Description
| Product ID: | 9781785316548 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | IN |
| Title: | Flight to Bogota |
| Subtitle: | England's Football Rebel, Neil Franklin |
| Authors: | Author: John Leonard |
| Page Count: | 256 |
| Subjects: | Biography: sport, Biography: sport, Association football (Soccer), Football (Soccer, Association football), England, Colombia, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Flight to Bogota charts an infamous episode in sports history, when UK footballers turned their backs on club and country before the 1950 World Cup for a sporting El Dorado. England's Neil Franklin led the rebellion, only to return home with his career in tatters. But the players' vociferous defence of their behaviour enlightened a shocked nation. Flight to Bogota tells the incredible story of one of the most infamous episodes in English sporting history, when a group of British footballers turned their backs on club and country before the 1950 World Cup for a sporting El Dorado in Colombia. It was a rebellion led by first-choice England centre-half Neil Franklin. The book charts how the players were secretly lured away from Britain, amid Franklin''s strident complaints of ''serfdom'' in English football, their brief struggles to adapt to Colombian life and the fallout once they humiliatingly returned home to face the wrath of club and country. This escapade was a personal failure for Franklin and left his career in tatters. But the players'' vociferous defence of their behaviour enlightened a shocked nation about how clubs mistreated footballers. Ultimately, it led to reforms that would financially benefit future footballing generations, but hopes of vast riches proved nothing more than an illusion for Franklin and his fellow ''football bandits'' as they embarked on their ''Flight to Bogota''. |
| Imprint Name: | Pitch Publishing Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Pitch Publishing Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-09-07 |
