When Footballers Were Skint: A Journey in Search of the Soul of Football

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Born in Dudley, Worcestershire, Edwards appeared on the radar of leading clubs while still in his early teens. Everywhere I went was an open door,’ Eastham says, ‘nobody said they didn’t want to see me because I was in the newspapers. Those are the questions that Uli Hesse has tried to answer, charting Borussia’s rise following their brush with financial meltdown.

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Great book easy listening and full of anecdotes that stretch back over the time football has been played. A footballer's path can be a rocky one, none more so than former Chelsea and Stoke City player Alan Hudson. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. Having felled Sewell with a clonking tackle, he told his stricken opponent: ‘That one’s for Wembley.

Based on the first-hand accounts of players from a fast disappearing generation, When Footballers Were Skint delves into the game's rich heritage and relates the fascinating story of a truly great sporting era. Had he been a Hollywood actor in the 1940s and ’50s he would have been much in demand as a gunslinger. At the time of his death, at the age of 21, he had already played 151 times for United and 18 times for England. Harris ignored this advice and soon afterwards Clamp delivered a tackle the like of which, Matthews said, he had not seen in 30 years of football.

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And it is an ambition of many around the world to one day attend at least a game at their Westfalenstadion. And, of course, generally I showed them that one [he holds up his left fist] and banged them with it, because I was southpaw. Edwards’s grave in Dudley remains a place of pilgrimage and he is depicted in a stained-glass window in a local church. Cliff Jones, the greatly admired Wales and Tottenham winger, remembered Edwards from the British Army team. The nimble-footed winger Stanley Matthews of Stoke City, Blackpool and England had to deal with being clogged more often than most.He progressed from covering Rushden Town for the Northants Evening Telegraph in the 1960s to filing stories for Reuters on Diego Maradona’s antics in winning the World Cup for Argentina in 1986. It struck him that rather than potting snooker balls all afternoon it would make more sense to find a second job and save some money. That could be because they know they are really just amateurs compared with the people who are running the game. Another popular striker who ended up in financial strife is former Wimbledon and Charlton striker Jason Euell. After some time in the footballing wilderness, Djemba-Djemba ended up this year at lowly Scottish side St.

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It could have been for tax reasons or it could have been to protect Ronaldo’s vanity as the world’s most expensive player.

Long before perma-tanned football agents and TV mega-rights ushered in the age of the multimillionaire player, footballers’ wages were capped – even the game’s biggest names earned barely more than a plumber or electrician. Ultimately this would prove to be his downfall and in May 2014, he was proclaimed insolvent by the courts. Based on the first-hand accounts of players from a fastdisappearing generation, When Footballers Were Skint delves into the game’s rich heritage and relates the fascinating story of a truly great sporting era.

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Photograph: Kieran McManus/BPI/REX The Real deals … Gareth Bale and Real Madrid teammate Cristiano Ronaldo.Players and fans would even sometimes be next-door neighbours in a street of working-class terraced houses. Well, she paid a million dollars to insure her legs and they were great legs and my missus had legs that were as good as Betty Grable’s. Clamp had been passed on to Stoke by Arsenal, whose manager Billy Wright was looking for more finesse from his players than Clamp was offering. As the melange of adoration, money and off field activities can reveal, a footballer’s existence is certainly a charmed one at best. Meningitis in my mid 20s all I have known from football is these very wealthy players earning millions and being sold/bought for even more.