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My Father And Other Working Class Football Heroes

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Shows how the author faces his growing alienation from the game he was born into, as he revisits key periods in his father's career to build up a picture of his football life and through him a whole era. This book recaptures a lost world and the way it changed, blending the pe...

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Product ID:9780224072687
Product Form:Paperback / softback
Country of Manufacture:GB
Title:My Father And Other Working Class Football Heroes
Authors:Author: Gary Imlach
Page Count:256
Subjects:Biography: sport, Biography: sport, Memoirs, Relationships and families: advice and issues, Association football (Soccer), Memoirs, Family & relationships, Football (Soccer, Association football), United Kingdom, Great Britain
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Shows how the author faces his growing alienation from the game he was born into, as he revisits key periods in his father's career to build up a picture of his football life and through him a whole era. This book recaptures a lost world and the way it changed, blending the personal and the historical into a soccer story.


WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD


A poignant and moving account of the author’s search for the man his father was and the life he led as a well-known footballer, blending the personal and the historical into an unforgettable story


Stewart Imlach was an ordinary neighbourhood soccer star of his time.

A brilliant winger who thrilled the crowd on Saturdays, then worked alongside them in the off-season; who represented Scotland in the 1958 World Cup and never received a cap for his efforts; who was Man of the Match for Nottingham Forest in the 1959 FA Cup Final, and was rewarded with the standard offer - £20 a week, take it or leave it.

Gary Imlach grew up a privileged insider at Goodison Park when Stewart moved into coaching. He knew the highlights of his father''s career by heart. But when his dad died he realised they were all he knew. He began to realise, too, that he''d lost the passion for football that his father had passed down to him. In this book he faces his growing alienation from the game he was born into, as he revisits key periods in his father''s career to build up a picture of his football life - and through him a whole era.

‘The most emotionally charged and moving sports book I''ve ever read’ Daily Mail


Imprint Name:Yellow Jersey Press
Publisher Name:Vintage Publishing
Country of Publication:GB
Publishing Date:2006-08-03