Two Brothers

Two Brothers

by Jonathan Wilson
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 11/08/2022

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'A powerful chronicle of the transformation of English football and society through the prism of two very different characters' Irish Times


Jack was open, charismatic, selfish and pig-headed; Bobby was guarded, shy, polite and reserved to the point of reclusiveness. Jack was a gangling central defender who developed a profound tactical intelligence; Bobby an athletic attacking midfielder who disdained systems. Yet the Charlton brothers both enjoyed great success as football players and together, for England, they won the World Cup.


Two Brothers is both the story of the most famous football players of their generation and an account of late-twentieth-century English football: the tensions between flair and industry, between individuality and the collective, between right and left, between middle- and working-classes, between exile and home.


'Wilson is meticulous in providing all manner of nuggets' Sports Books of the Year, The Times


'Gripping' Daily Mail


'Moving... chronicles two remarkable lives' Guardian

ISBN:
9781408714485
9781408714485
Category:
Biography: sport
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
11-08-2022
Language:
English
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Jonathan Wilson

Jonathan Wilson's Inverting the Pyramid won the National Sporting Club Book of the Year award, and was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award.

His other books include Behind the Curtain: Travels in Eastern European Football; Sunderland: A Club Transformed; The Anatomy of England: A History in Ten Matches; Nobody Ever Says Thank You, a critically acclaimed biography of Brian Clough; The Outsider: A History of the Goalkeeper; The Anatomy of Liverpool; Angels with Dirty Faces: The Footballing History of Argentina; and The Anatomy of Manchester United.

He writes for the Guardian, Sports Illustrated and World Soccer, and he is the editor of The Blizzard.

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