My Father and Other Working-Class Football Heroes

WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDA 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

ISBN:	9780224072687
Publisher:	Random House
Imprint:	Yellow Jersey Press
Published date:	03 Aug 2006
DEWEY:	796.334092
DEWEY edition:	22
Language:	English
Number of pages:	234
Weight:	194g
Height:	190mm
Width:	134mm
Spine width:	17mm

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