WORKING MANS BALLET - Couverture rigide

Hudson,Alan

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1861051042 ISBN 13 : 9781861051042

Editeur : Robson Books Ltd, 1998

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The story of one of English football's greatest mavericks

Alan Hudson was Chelsea Football Club's home-grown boy genius. He broke into a team already fizzing with the flamboyant talent of Peter Osgood and Charlie Cooke, his mercurial skills and style imprinting themselves on football fans far and wide. The Working Man's Ballet documents Hudson's journey from a prefab in working-class Chelsea to the heights of global football via Chelsea, Stoke City, Arsenal, Seattle Sounders and England.

A true maverick, his story is set against the backdrop of The Kings Road - the spiritual home of the Swinging Sixties and Seventies - and captures the essence of a man who could delight and frustrate in equal measure. His post-football life has seen many twists and turns, with a road accident nearly killing him in 1997. A natural storyteller, a friend and contemporary of George Best and Bobby Moore, Alan Hudson remains an intriguing London character.

Michael Parkinson wryly observed: "Apart from being abducted by aliens there is nothing dramatic that hasn't happened to Alan Hudson, but give it time."

Jeff Powell of The Daily Mail describes The Working Man's Ballet as: "Idiosyncratic, off-the-wall, quirky, often bizarre, sometimes surreal - Hudson offers his weird and wonderful insight into the world of flowing football and life in the London fast lane."

The book comes with extended introductions and afterwords by John King (author of The Football Factory) and Martin Knight (biographer of George Best, Peter Osgood and Charlie Cooke).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Robson Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1861051042
• ISBN 13: 9781861051042
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 260
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible