A Man Walks On To a Pitch: Stories from a Life in Football by Harry Redknapp (En

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The autho shares a lifetime's experience of obsessing over football, during which he has seen it all first hand - the good, the bad and the unbelievable. In this book, he shares stories of some of the legends and journeymen he played, coached, argued and drank with, Harry picks a team for each decade from the 1950s to the present.

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Harry's tales and insight into the game he's lived and breathed for 50 years'When a man walks on to a pitch there's always a chance something magic can happen, that's what keeps us coming back...'In A Man Walks On To a Pitch, Harry shares a lifetime's experience of obsessing over football, during which he has seen it all first hand - the good, the bad and the unbelievable. Harry started in an age where players were ordinary blokes who might live on the same street as you and earn a similar wage. Now he manages in an era of player power, multi-million pound wages and teams assembled from around the globe.As he shares stories of some of the legends and journeymen he played, coached, argued and drank with, Harry picks a team for each decade from the 1950s to the present. He gets to the heart of what was right and wrong with each era and explores the changes in the game from lifestyle to tactics. He weaves his choices together with unforgettable tales from the training pitches, boot rooms and card schools.There are tales of the untutored genius of Duncan Edwards and Tom Finney, legendary tough Scots like Bobby Collins, Dave Mackay and Billy Bremner, the world-beaters of 1966, unpredictable one-off wizards from Sir Stanley Matthews to Matt Le Tissier, natural-born goalscorers from Greaves to Dalglish and the greatest foreign players to grace our game from Trautmann to Bergkamp. It is one of the best informal histories of the British game you'll ever read.

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The former long-time Tottenham manager gives his tales and insights into the game he's lived and breathed for 50 years, following his no.1 Sunday Times bestselling autobiography Always Managing. Ghosted by award-winning sports writer Martin Samuel. Now in paperback.

Author Biography

Harry Redknapp was born in 1947 in Poplar, East London. After starting out as a trainee at Tottenham, he signed for West Ham and played for them between 1965 and 1972. He also played for Bournemouth and the Seattle Sounders before injury took him into management and coaching. He has managed at Bournemouth, West Ham, Portsmouth (twice), Southampton, Tottenham Hotspur and QPR. He won the FA Cup with Portsmouth in 2008 and took Spurs into the Champions League in 2010. He has written two bestselling books - his autobiography Always Managing, which was number one in the Sunday Times - and his history of the game in A Man Walks On To a Pitch. He is married to Sandra and has two sons, Mark and Jamie (who played for Liverpool, Tottenham and England). He is also uncle to Frank Lampard. He has two bulldogs called Rosie and Buster.

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The book all football fans will want to read * Daily Mail *Informative, entertaining and full of insights * The Sunday Times *

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Details ISBN009195553X Author Harry Redknapp Year 2015 ISBN-10 009195553X ISBN-13 9780091955533 Format Paperback Publication Date 2015-06-04 Imprint Ebury Press Subtitle Stories from a Life in Football Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 796.334092 Media Book Short Title MAN WALKS ON TO A PITCH Language English Publisher Ebury Publishing Pages 368 UK Release Date 2015-06-04 AU Release Date 2015-06-04 NZ Release Date 2015-06-04 Narrator Jesse Vilinsky Birth 19710116 Affiliation Research Scholar, Amal Jyothi Centre for Nanoscience and Technology, Kerala, India Position UN Under-Secretary General and Rector Qualifications M.D. Audience General Alternative 9781448176595 We've got this

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