Len Rawlings was the greatest goal-keeper of his time, but that was long ago. In "The Dying of the Light" we see a great footballer in sad decline living in wretched obscurity in a Croydon semi-detached. Rejected by his son, he still lives with hi...
'The best book on football ever written.' Franz Beckenbauer, winner of the World Cup as both player and manager. In Football Memories, Brian Glanville himself writes, 'The central character, Garry, was a Scottish inside-forward based on Danny Blan...
The Olympian is Ike Low, a young Cockney miler who is taken up by the eccentric, dominating coach, Sam Dee and turned into a world champion but at an immense human cost.
The author himself writes, 'The Olympian can be read as an alle...