The Football Man Av Arthur Hopcraft

Written just two years after England’s ’66 triumph when the national game was at its zenith, Arthur Hopcraft’s <I>The Football Man</I> is repeatedly quoted as the best book ever written about the sport. This definitive, magisterial study of football and society profiles includes interviews with all-time greats like Bobby Charlton, George Best, Alf Ramsay, Stanley Matthews, Matt Busby and Nat Lofthouse. It is a snapshot of a pivotal era in sporting history; changes and decisions were made in the sixties that would create the game we know today.