The first full and objective autobiography of a sporting legend, revealing the professional and private lives of one of the world's greatest ever footballers
Jon Henderson, a sportswriter for more than 45 years, has reported on events from around the world working for Reuters and national newspapers, including the Observer and Guardian. His assignments included five Olympic Games and two World Cups. He is the author of two previous books, Best of British and The Last Champion The Life of Fred Perry.
Portrays a lost world of heavy balls, burly strikers, fog-bound
pitches, £20-a-week wages, and teams who would travel to away
matches by train and walk to the ground from the station
*Guardian*
The book portrays a lost world of heavy balls, burly strikers,
fogbound pitches, £20-a-week wages, and teams who'd travel to away
matches by train then walk to the ground from the station
*Guardian*
A marvellous, well-written biography that doesn’t shirk from
exploring controversial episodes in Sir Stan’s life
*Press Association*
Henderson succeeds in digging deeper, revealing a more complex
character. Fallouts with managers, private dramas. It’s fascinating
stuff!
*Four Four Two*
Conveys the ethos of football in a bygone age, when money was
secondary to sportsmanship and even world-famous players would take
the bus to the ground
*Sunday Telegraph*
Like his subject…the author has done his groundwork brilliantly
*Independent on Sunday*
What makes Henderson’s biography so interesting is the portrait it
provides of an entire life, the Cold War love story after Matthews
had finally hung up his boots a fascinating addendum to a career
that came to a close at his testimonial at Stoke City in 1965
*Metro*
Staggeringly well-researched
*Spectator*
Henderson seeks to dig up fresh revelations about Matthew’s private
life
*The Times*
Well-researched and cannily written
*When Sunday Comes*
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