The Glory Game (Mainstream Sport)

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Hunter Davies, author of the only authorized biography of The Beatles, wrote in his introduction to the 2011 edition of T he Glory Game about a concern he had when the book first appeared in 1973. I was expecting some unconvenient truths about the game to be shown, but the ammount of darkness that this book portrays still surprised me. The writing is spot on and with a breadth of interest, the club is covered almost from top to bottom, with the player providing plenty of material for Davies to work with.

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He clearly loved her deeply and they were together for a long time but I didn’t much like the character he portrayed.Journalist Davies spent an entire season with the team, training with them, visiting the players’ homes and witnessing the dressing-room confrontations – a luxury that seems so alien in modern-day football’s PR-managed world. From dictatorial influence in Romania with Nicola Ceausescu to the disintegration of Yugoslavia and descent into genocidal civil war, there are stories aplenty. Davies has stated that the first football team he supported was Queen of the South, when he lived in Dumfries. I've enjoyed a few books that have taken this approach and this challenges my favourite which up until now has been I Lost My Heart to the Belles by Pete Davies where Davies once again showed himself to be a generation ahead of his time.

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The beliefs on the social side leaves a bit to be desired, but the frailties and worries of the players are probably not that different to those of today’s superstars. Like many autobiographies, this evokes a time and place, though it would have been good to have even more of his experiences in the mid to late sixties, but that is a personal preference. The players in the 70's were much more accessible than today and it was cool to see how relaxed they were in giving Davies accounts of their personal lives. A Life in the Day' is the second part of Hunter Davies' autobiography, and the follow up to ' The Co-op's Got Bananas: A Memoir of Growing Up in the Post-War North', which I have yet to read. However, Conn’s 2004 book is a heartfelt account of the increasingly rapid changes of the previous couple of decades.His family moved to Carlisle in northern England when Davies was 11 and he attended the Creighton School in the city.