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The Mavericks

English Football When Flair Wore Flares

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
288 Seiten
2020
Bloomsbury Sport (Verlag)
978-1-4729-7485-3 (ISBN)
16,20 inkl. MwSt
ONE OF FOUR FOUR TWO MAGAZINE’S '50 FOOTBALL BOOKS YOU MUST READ'

'A great book' – Henry Winter

'A lovely read, the kind in which you constantly annoy people by reading the funny bits out loud' – Irish Post

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First published 25 years ago, The Mavericks was one of a new breed of literary football books. Artfully combining sports journalism with social history and sharp pop culture references, this updated edition explores 1970s football when a cult group of footballers delivered flair on the pitch and flamboyance off 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 - now featuring a new Foreword, Postscript and photos - examines an anomaly at the heart of English culture, one that symbolised the death of post-Sixties optimism, the end of innocence.

Rob Steen is an award-winning author, sportswriter and freshly retired senior lecturer in journalism at the University of Brighton. He has written for the Guardian, Independent, Financial Times, Sunday Times and Mojo. He has written numerous books on sport and has been shortlisted twice for the prestigious William Hill Sports Book of the Year award.

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

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 198 mm
Gewicht 168 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Sport Ballsport Fußball
Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10 1-4729-7485-9 / 1472974859
ISBN-13 978-1-4729-7485-3 / 9781472974853
Zustand Neuware
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