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THE GOALKEEPER'S HISTORY OF BRITAIN
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| By: |
Peter Chapman |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£7.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
184115010X |
| ISBN 13: |
9781841150109 |
| Publisher: |
HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS |
| Pub. date: |
4 May, 2000 |
| Pages: |
352 |
| Description: |
This is postwar Britain seen through a lifetime's obsession with the goalkeeper, that most British of positions and the last to succumb to Continental influence. It is also a beguiling story of Peter Chapman's own dream to play in goal, culminating in the moment he faced the mighty Zico. |
| Synopsis: |
If the French are the flair in midfield, the Germans the attack from the inside channels, the Italians the cry-foul defence, then Britain is the goalkeeper: stand alone, the bastion of last resort, more solid than spectacular, part of the team - and yet not. And Britain's place in the world is epitomized by its goalkeepers: post war austerity is embodied in Bert Williams (Walsall and England), a wartime PT boy whose athleticism scarcely concealed a masochistic edge - he ended his training routine with a full-length dive on to concrete. The end of Empire abroad came as the army and politicians were being humiliated in Suez and the football team, despite the best efforts of Gill Merrick (Birmingham and England), were being humbled by the Hungarians at home. The thawing of the Cold War is begun not over Cuban missiles but over Lev Yashin, the superb and widely admired Russian whose arrival for the World Cup in 1966 changes the attitudes of a nation.And for Peter Chapman (Orient Schoolboys and one appearance in the World Eleven to face Brasil), like his father before him (Armed Forces), it is always the goalkeeper who is the indicator of national well-being.A of a nation's affection for football's perennial underdog, of a childhood obsession and of a glorious footballing tradition from Kelsey to Jennings, Swift to Trautmann, Bonetti to Shilton that culminates - perhaps ends even - in the last truly British goalkeeper: David Seaman. |
| Illustrations: |
illustrations |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Fourth Estate Ltd |
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