Two Brothers

Jonathan Wilson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

384 Seiten

2023
Abacus (Verlag)
978-0-349-14482-5 (ISBN)

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The story of Jack and Bobby Charlton, and a family that characterised English football for decades

'A powerful chronicle of the transformation of English football and society through the prism of two very different characters' Irish Times

Jack was open, charismatic, selfish and pig-headed; Bobby was guarded, shy, polite and reserved to the point of reclusiveness. Jack was a gangling central defender who developed a profound tactical intelligence; Bobby an athletic attacking midfielder who disdained systems. Yet the Charlton brothers both enjoyed great success as football players and together, for England, they won the World Cup.

Two Brothers is both the story of the most famous football players of their generation and an account of late-twentieth-century English football: the tensions between flair and industry, between individuality and the collective, between right and left, between middle- and working-classes, between exile and home.

'Wilson is meticulous in providing all manner of nuggets' Sports Books of the Year, The Times

'Gripping' Daily Mail

'Moving... chronicles two remarkable lives' Guardian

Jonathan Wilson is the editor of the Blizzard and a freelance writer for the Guardian, World Soccer and Sports Illustrated. He is the author of eleven books, including Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics, Behind the Curtain: Football in Eastern Europe, Angels with Dirty Faces: The Footballing History of Argentina, The Barcelona Legacy and The Names Heard Long Ago.

Erscheinungsdatum	09.09.2023
Zusatzinfo	Approx. 32 photographs
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	126 x 196 mm
Gewicht	320 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Themenwelt	Sport ► Ballsport ► Fußball
ISBN-10	0-349-14482-6 / 0349144826
ISBN-13	978-0-349-14482-5 / 9780349144825
Zustand	Neuware