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Hype and Glory: The Decline and Fall of the English National Football Team [Hardcover]

Gavin Newsham
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  • Hardcover: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Atlantic Books (1 April 2010)
  • ISBN-10: 1848873034
  • ISBN-13: 978-1848873032
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 180,154 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"'A riotous morality tale, stuffed with decadence and a little violence, it illustrates the folly of importing foreign culture wholesale... Solid research, good storytelling and plenty of colourful anecdotes.' Lawrence Phelan, Independent on Sunday 'Football books live and die by their subject matter, and fortunately the tale told here - of the ambitious but ill-fated mission to sell soccer to the Americans - is a corker... This book is a gripping evocation of a glorious but brief moment when the beautiful game had the US entranced.' Time Out"

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England has singularly failed to make any impact at either the World Cup or the European Championships for over forty years. Gavin Newsham tells us why. There have been twenty major international football tournaments since that Saturday in July 1966 when Bobby Moore lifted the World Cup trophy for England. As each of these competitions has come around, a wave of expectation has been followed, with seeming inevitability, by disappointment just weeks later. But with just three semi-final appearances to show for over forty years of effort and pain, why does England - as a team and as a nation - continue to believe that it has an almost divine right to succeed in international football? Tracing the footballing fortunes of ten England managers - Ramsey, Revie, Greenwood, Robson, Taylor, Venables, Hoddle, Eriksson, McLaren and Capello - "Hype and Glory" shows just why the England football team has struggled to live with the weight of expectation. Full of dramatic on-field action and dressing room gossip, it vividly recreates the highs and lows, the agony and ecstacy, the close calls and the humiliations, and through scores of interviews with players, managers and journalists, pinpoints precisely why things have always gone so badly wrong...

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4.0 out of 5 stars An Engaging Tale of Woe, 11 April 2010
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In a World Cup year you'd expect a few books on England to come out but one charting their innumerable failures proves to be an interesting take on the subject. Yes, it's a frustrating tale of under-achievement, but the author sugars the pill with some great stories and anecdotes. Does he come up with a theory for this tale of woe? Yes, he does - and it's not the players, not the coaches, not the management, not the culture. What is it? You'll have to read the book to find out. It's lively, funny and engaging.
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