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Sunday Times Sports Book of the Year 2015
Sometimes you love a football team not only for their strengths, the splendour of their
play and the appealing thrust of their character, but also the haunting possibility that
their best hopes may never be fulfilled. This has rarely been demonstrated so vividly as
by the Manchester City team who briefly, but unforgettably, illuminated the late sixties.
And no one was more caught up in their struggles and their triumphs than James
Lawton, a young sportswriter starting out on a career that would take him to all the great
events of world sport. Yet still, 50 years after Joe Mercer and Malcolm Allison began to
shape the brilliant team, he counts watching their rise to glory as one of the most
exciting times of his professional life.
Francis Lee, Colin Bell, Mike Summerbee - these players loomed large over the game
as they charged at the peaks of English football, and today evoke a period of the sport's
history that seems distant and unknowable, hard to see except through the rose-tinted
gloss of nostalgia.
Lawton goes back to those heroes, interviewing all the main players and characters
who are still alive, and vividly brings to life the story of that City team which with such
wonderful panache, and freedom, won the first division title, the FA Cup, the League Cup
and the European Cup Winners Cup between 1967 and 1970.
This, though, is not just the story of one team, but a broader one of how sport can
sometimes so perfectly mirror the exaltation and the despair of the real world, how it
carries those who do it, and sometimes even those who merely see it, to moments that
will claim a permanent place in their hearts.

About the Author

James Lawton first started covering top-flight football as a 19-year-old for the Daily Telegraph in 1963 and after a seven-year stint in North America, went on to become chief sports writer of the Daily Express and the Independent, with whom he was three times voted sportswriter of the year and was also awarded the sports columnist and sports feature writer of the year titles. He has written 12 books, including an awardwinning collaboration with Sir Bobby Charlton on his two volumes of autobiography.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781472912428
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Binding: Paperback
  • No of Pages: 336
  • Series Title: Wisden Sports Writing
  • Weight: 330 gr
  • ISBN-10: 147291242X
  • Publisher Date: 19 May 2016
  • Height: 131 mm
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 23 mm
  • Width: 198 mm

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