The Glory Game
- ISBN-10
- 1840182423
- ISBN-13
- 9781840182422
- Series
- The Glory Game
- Category
- Sports & Recreation
- Pages
- 376
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000-01-01
- Publisher
- Ebury Press
- Author
- Hunter Davies
Description
When the first edition of The Glory Game was published in 1972, it was instantly hailed as the most insightful book about the life of a football club ever published. Hunter Davies was, and still is, the only author ever to be allowed into the inner sanctum of a top-level football team (Tottenham Hotspur) and his pen spared nothing and no one. 'His accuracy is sufficiently uncanny to be embarrassing,' wrote Bob Wilson in the New Statesman. 'Brilliant, vicious, unmerciful,' wrote The Sun. Davies spent a whole season with the team, training with them, visiting the players' homes and witnessing the dressing-room confrontations. In the modern era of painstaking media management and tight security, no sportswriter will ever again be granted such unprecedented access. While some features of the game have changed beyond all recognition - notably the all-consuming role that money now plays - inside every club the dramas and tensions revealed by Davies remain, making the book a timeless classic and securing its position as one of the best books about football ever written.
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 2009-10-06
- 320 pages
- Ebook
- Harper Collins
Similar books
-
Game Day for the Glory of God: A Guide for Athletes, Fans, and Wannabes
By Stephen AltroggeThis book gives biblical guidance on playing, watching, and discussing sports in a God-glorifying manner, helping believers grow in both their love for God and their passion for holiness.
-
The Glory Game
By Keith LaumerThe Glory Game
-
The Game and the Glory
By Gregg Lewis, Michelle AkersBoys and girls will meet an exciting role model in Michelle Akers, who credits her rise to sports stardom to her relationship with Jesus Christ. of full-color photos.
-
The Secret Glory
By Arthur Machen... the Cambridge Bible for Students in many volumes, Stanley's Life of Arnold, Coplestone's Prælectiones Academicæ, commentaries, dictionaries, first editions of Tennyson, ... There was a concatenation accordingly, every link in which ...
-
Buffalo Football: A Game-By-Game Summary of the Glory Years
By Chris StucchioBuffalo Football includes interesting facts, statistics, and scoring information for every meaningful game the Buffalo Bills played from the start of the 1988 NFL regular season until the day they lost their fourth consecutive Super Bowl in ...
-
So You Think You're Smart: 150 Fun and Challenging Brain Teasers
By Pat BattagliaThe brain teasers are about ordinary words and things that everybody knows about so only common sense and a bit of resourcefulness are needed to solve them. The book is in its 17th printing and has appeared on Saturday Night Live.
-
The Glory Game
By Hunter DaviesThe Glory Game
-
The Glory Game: The New Edition of the British Football Classic
By Hunter DaviesThe Glory Game: The New Edition of the British Football Classic
-
Dappled Glory: The Black Diamond Heritage
By Diane Mechem KinserLife in the coal mines of Ohio and Pennsylvania was fraught with tragedy, illness and death in the early 20th Century.
-
The Physical Educator's Big Book of Sport Lead-up Games: A Complete K-8 Sourcebook of Team and Lifetime Sport Activities for...
By Guy BaileyWritten by a nationally known physical education teacher and author, this one-of-a-kind book contains PE games that allow children to develop team and lifetime sport skills in an exciting and meaningful setting--leaving them motivated, ...