The Puffin Book of Football (Puffin Books)

BRIAN GLANVILLE

Sports & Outdoors

Puffin Books

The Puffin Book of the World Cup (Puffin Books)

Literature & Fiction

Len Rawlings was the greatest goal-keeper of his time, but that was long ago. In The Dying of the Light we see a great footballer in sad decline living in wretched obscurity in a Croydon semi-detached. Rejected by his son, he still lives with his wife. Although loyal, she is bewildered and ineffectual. It falls to his school-teacher daughter, Jenny, to be his support. Defying him in childhood, she now feels his plight seeing him as a man who has been cruelly exploited, encouraged to 'live his life backwards', a man off whose heroics other people once fed their fantasies, and who has been cast aside now he can longer fulfil them. It is Jenny too who cannot bear to see him slipping ignominiously into disgrace, misery and ultimately death, she who wants him to make one final clarion protest against 'the dying of the light'.Though father and daughter they could scarcely be more dissimilar, and their joint narration of the story gives it a strange polarity, an unusual tension. For Jenny, professional football is something trivial, peripheral and adolescent. For Len, it is quite simply his life.

The dying of the light

Literary

Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd.

The Story of the World Cup: The Essential Companion to Germany 2006

Football (American)

Faber and Faber

This is the dramatic and controversial history of the world's leading tournament. Brian Glanville's classic account is a celebration of the great players and matches from Uruguay in 1930 to Germany in 2006 - and a bold attack on all those who have mismanaged the 'beautiful game'.

The Story of the World Cup: The Essential Companion to South Africa 2010

Faber&Faber

The Sunday Times history of the World Cup;

HarperCollins Distribution Services

<p>A glimpse into the world of a professional footballer. The story follows Ronnie Blake, a rising young goalkeeper, in his career from apprentice through injury and rejection to making it to the first team and the thrill of running onto the pitch in front of a roaring Cup Final crowd.</p>

Goalkeepers Are Different

Contemporary

Virgin Publishing

England Managers

Headline Hardbacks

For Club and Country

Biographies & Memoirs

Random House]

Cliff Bastin Remembers: The Autobiography of Arsenal's Greatest Outside-left

Cliff Bastin

GCR Books

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