Rob Steen

The Mavericks

English Football When Flair Wore Flares. Sprachen: Englisch. 19,8 cm / 13,2 cm / 2,2 cm ( B/H/T )
Buch (Softcover), 288 Seiten
EAN 9781472974853
Veröffentlicht April 2020
Verlag/Hersteller Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

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Artfully combining sports journalism with social history and sharp pop culture references, The Mavericks explores 1970s football when a cult group of footballers delivered flair on the pitch and flamboyance off of it. Cocky, coiffured strikers meet David Bowie and Alvin Stardust; Gola boots exchange kicks with A Clockwork Orange and The Likely Lads; Admiral sock tags, platform heels and kipper ties mingle with cod wars, Harrods bombings and three-day weeks. In this, Steen recreates the early Seventies, the era when football joined the vanguard of English youth culture. This personal account revolves around seven Englishmen who followed in the trail blazed by football's first tabloid star, George Best--Stan Bowles, Tony Currie, Charlie George, Alan Hudson, Rodney Marsh, Peter Osgood and Frank Worthington. Proud individuals amid an increasingly corporate environment, their invention and artistry were matched only by a disdain for authority and convention. Their belief in football as performance art, as showbiz, gave the game a boost, and elevated them to cult status. During their heyday, nevertheless, they were largely ignored by a succession of England managers, none of whom were able to assemble a side competent enough to qualify for the World Cup finals. Against a backdrop of increasing violence on the field and terraces alike, of battles between players and the Establishment, this book examines an anomaly at the heart of English culture, one that symbolized the death of post-Sixties optimism, the end of innocence.

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Rob Steen is a freelance journalist and has written for the Guardian, Independent on Sunday, Wisden Cricket Monthly, Financial Times and Daily Telegraph.He has written numerous books on sport. His books have been shortlisted of the William Hill. He senior lecturer in sports journalism at the University of Brighton

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction (2020) Introduction (1994) edition 1 Sucking in the Seventies 2 Chairman Alf and the Godfather 3 Gunning for Trouble 4 Blue Was the Cover 5 I Don't Want to Go to Chelsea 6 Queen's Park Arrangers (i) The Jean Genie (ii) The Bookie's Favourites (iii) Dr Heckle and Mr Jive 7 It's Not All Never Afterword Acknowledgements Bibliography By the same author Index About the author

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