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A beautifully written and moving account of the author’s search for the man his father was, and the life he led as a well-known footballer at a time when the men who played the game, and those who watched it, led fundamentally the same lives together in the same communities.
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About the Author
Gary Imlach started out writing for national newspapers at the age of 18. He has worked for the BBC, ITN, CNN & Channel 4, and presents ITV's coverage of the Tour de France and American Football. He is also the producer of several documentaries. This is his first book.
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"The most emotionally charged and moving sports book I think I've ever read - Harry Ritchie, Daily Mail" -- Daily Mail * Harry Ritchie * "One of the most deserving William Hill winners in the award's history ... The book of the year" -- Christopher Maume * Independent * "A remarkable book... Imlach is a gifted writer, pungently aware, admirably combative, knowledgeable and compassionate" -- Brian Glanville * Sunday Times * "My Father and Other Working-Class Heroes immediately joins the Football Classic Club - whose members are bonded by using football as a backdrop for something entirely different... A beautiful personal history" -- Rick Broadbent * Times * "If I could have my memories of Stewart Imlach surgically extracted, I would wrap them carefully, put them in a box, and send them to his son. Unlike me, Gary Imlach never saw his father play football... But that has not prevented the son from producing one of the best sports books of recent years. A book to treasure" -- Richard Williams * Guardian *
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- PublisherYellow Jersey Press
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0224072676
- ISBN 13 9780224072670
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages288
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 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 - GBP20 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. Stewart Imlach travelled a long way from the tiny Scottish fishing community of Lossiemouth to the World Cup in Sweden. But in one sense he didn't move at all. He played in the last days of the maximum wage, when footballers were serfs, owned by their clubs - and the men who played the game and those who watched it led fundamentally the same lives together in the same communities. More than forty years on, such an era seems barely imaginable. "My Father and Other Working-Class Heroes" brilliantly recaptures that world and the way it changed, blending the personal and the historical into a unique soccer story. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR001204749
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