The Football Man: People & Passions in Soccer

Written just two years after England’ s ‘ 66 triumph when the national game was at its zenith, Arthur Hopcraft’ s The Football Man is repeatedly quoted as the best book every written about the sport. Written just two years after England’s ’66 triumph when the national game was at its zenith, Arthur Hopcraft’s The Football Man is repeatedly quoted as the best book ever written about the sport. This definitive, magisterial study of football and society profiles includes interviews with all-time greats like Bobby Charlton, George Best, Alf Ramsay, Stanley Matthews, Matt Busby and Nat Lofthouse. It is a snapshot of a pivotal era in sporting history; changes and decisions were made in the sixties that would create the game we know today.

• | Author: Arthur Hopcraft
• | Publisher: Quarto Publishing PLC
• | Publication Date: Aug 01, 2013
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781781311516
• | ISBN-10: 178131151X