Book description
When the first edition of The Glory Game was published in
1972, it was instantly hailed as the most insightful book about the
life of a football club ever published. Hunter Davies was, and still
is, the only author ever to be allowed into the inner sanctum of a
top-level football team (Tottenham Hotspur) and his pen spared nothing
and no one. 'His accuracy is sufficiently uncanny to be embarrassing,'
wrote Bob Wilson in the New Statesman. 'Brilliant, vicious,
unmerciful,' wrote The Sun.
Davies spent a whole season with the team, training with them,
visiting the players' homes and witnessing the dressing-room
confrontations. In the modern era of painstaking media management and
tight security, no sportswriter will ever again be granted such
unprecedented access. While some features of the game have changed
beyond all recognition - notably the all-consuming role that money now
plays - inside every club the dramas and tensions revealed by Davies
remain, making the book a timeless classic and securing its position
as one of the best books about football ever written.
Hunter Davies is the author of over 30 books, including such classics
as
A Walk Around the Lakes
and the authorised biography of The Beatles. As a journalist he has
contributed to the
Sunday Times
,
The Independent
, the
Daily Mail
and the
New Statesman
, while as a broadcaster he has presented many programmes for BBC Radio
4.
