Final Third! : The Last Word on Our Football Heroes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Soccer.

Soccer players.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (306 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Pitch Publishing (Brighton) Limited, 2022.

Summary:

Final Third: The Last Word on our Football Heroes serves up another batch of funny, absurd and jaw-dropping tales discovered within more than 300 footballer autobiographies. Author John Smith has pored over the memoirs of the great and the good - as well as the not so good - so you don't have to. You're welcome. Final Third paints an intimate picture of our favourite football figures, using their own stories to show what makes them tick, what unites and divides them and exactly what they are prepared to share with us. They've seen things you wouldn't believe! The eye-opening stories include a defender deliberately driving a golf ball into Jimmy Hill's house, a goalkeeper confronted by a witch doctor in his penalty area, one football legend asking another to scale a church tower to stop the bells ringing, a manager who was like catnip to the wives of his directors and the England captain who drifted down the Thames. It all adds up to a fun third volume of the definitive digest of the autobiographies of our football heroes.

Contents:

Intro

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Setting Our Stall Out

2. Legends

3. It's Not All Work, Work, Work

4. Behind Every Great Manager

5. You Wear It Well

6. Your Dukes, Your Cheddars and Your Widdleys of This World

7. I Want to Believe

8. Stranger in a Strange Land

9. Coming Over Here

10. Board Games

11. False 9 to 5

12. What Happens on Tour, Doesn't Necessarily Stay on Tour

13. Between the Sticks

14. Always Finish with a Song - Or a List

Bibliography

Photos.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Smith, John Final Third!

ISBN:

9781801504072

OCLC:

1344541563