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Alchemy (häftad, eng)
Boxing Day 1962: Sunderland’s star striker Brian Clough suffers a career-ending knee injury when he collides with an outrushing goalke...
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Boxing Day 1962: Sunderland’s star striker Brian Clough suffers a career-ending knee injury when he collides with an outrushing goalkeeper. After a forlorn battle to regain fitness, he retires early and sinks into deep despair.
October 1965: Clough persuades ex-’Boro teammate Peter Taylor to join him in managing perennial North-East strugglers Hartlepools United, lying next to bottom of the Fourth Division.
A magical football odyssey has begun.
Alchemy reveals the bittersweet reality of Brian Clough and Peter Taylor’s first management job togetherLower-league Hartlepools United are penniless, with a meddling chairman, a ramshackle ground and want-away players. Yet the management pair tackle every challenge head-on, forging a winning blueprint that later transforms unfashionable Derby County and Nottingham Forest into League and European Cup champions.
Exploiting a wealth of archive newspapers, plus interviews with those present at the creation, Alchemy exposes the humble origins of Clough & Taylor’s meteoric rise to the top of the football tree.
Format | Häftad |
Språk | Engelska |
Utgivningsdatum | 2024-08-15 |
ISBN | 9781803996905 |
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- Häftad, Engelska, The History Press Ltd, 2024-08-15, 9781803996905
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Specifikation
Böcker
- Format Häftad
- Språk Engelska
- Förlag The History Press Ltd
- Utgivningsdatum 2024-08-15
- ISBN 9781803996905