Boxing Day 1962: Sunderland's star striker Brian Clough suffers a career-ending knee injury when he collides with an outrushing goalkeeper. After a forlorn battle to regain fitness, he retires early and sinks into deep despair.
October 1965: Clough persuades ex-'Boro teammate Peter Taylor to join him in managing perennial North-East strugglers Hartlepools United, lying next to bottom of the Fourth Division. A magical football odyssey has begun. Alchemy reveals the bittersweet reality of Brian Clough and Peter Taylor's first management job together. Lower-league Hartlepools United are penniless, with a meddling chairman, a ramshackle ground and want-away players. Yet the management pair tackle every challenge head-on, forging a winning blueprint that later transforms unfashionable Derby County and Nottingham Forest into League and European Cup champions. Exploiting a wealth of archive newspapers, plus interviews with those present at the creation, Alchemy exposes the humble origins of Clough & Taylor's meteoric rise to the top of the football tree.Les informations fournies dans la section « Synopsis » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.
Despite being born and raised in London, Christopher Hull has been following Hartlepool United since 1978. He is the author of Our Man Down in Havana (Pegasus, 2019), which William Boyd described as 'A revelation and a delight.'
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. The origins of football's greatest managerial partnership is told in full for the first time. Boxing Day 1962. Injury has curtailed Brian Clough's playing career. He persuades ex-teammate Peter Taylor to join him in managing perennial Fourth Division strugglers Hartlepools United. An intuitive chemistry develops as quiet Taylor talent-spots bargain players, and charismatic Clough man-manages them. They apply their magic formula to transform a threadbare team over 19 months a blueprint that later wins them League Championship and European Cup trophies at unfashionable Derby County and Nottingham Forest. Clough & Taylor's names still resonate with football fans and the general public alike. Exploiting interviews with surviving players, Alchemy relates the bittersweet prelude to the pair's 1970s glory days in the context of Hartlepool's mid-60s industrial decline. Shipbuilding in the North-East town had just ended, and its coal trade was disappearing. A real-life kitchen-sink drama, the pair sack their No. 1 goalkeeper for ill-treating his wife, and a trainer they hire is released when players discover he's homosexual. Narrative tension builds from the club's financial struggles, battles with their chairman, the threat of expulsion from the Football League, and the team's promotion push. AUTHOR: Despite being born and raised in London, Christopher Hull has been following Hartlepool United since 1978. He is the author of Our Man Down in Havana (Pegasus, 2019), which William Boyd described as 'A revelation and a delight.' 20 b/w illustrations The bittersweet story of Brian Clough & Peter Taylors first steps towards football immortality at struggling Hartlepools United Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9781803996905
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Paperback. Etat : New. Alchemy reveals the bittersweet reality of Brian Clough and Peter Taylor's first management job together. The lower-league Hartlepools United are penniless, with a meddling chairman, a ramshackle ground and want-away players. Yet the management pair tackle every challenge head-on, forging a winning blueprint that later transforms unfashionable Derby County and Nottingham Forest into League and European Cup champions.Exploiting a wealth of archive newspapers, plus interviews with those present at the creation, Alchemy exposes the humble origins of Clough and Taylor's meteoric rise to the top of the football tree. N° de réf. du vendeur LU-9781803996905
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