When Football Was Football: Arsenal: A Nostalgic Look at a Century of the Club

by PaulJoseph (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  2009

  $3.39

  Using photographic and written archives of the Daily Mirror (including rare and unseen material), When Football Was Football - Arsenal takes us on a nostalgia-packed journey through the club's evolution from its beginnings as a south London munitions factory team, through the nurturing of some of the game's fabled characters - from notorious chairman Henry Norris to the great innovator Herbert Chapman, and the players from Brylcreem Boy Denis Compton, wee Alex James, Charlie George and Frank McLintock, up to the fresh-in-the-memory figures of Tony Adams and Ian Wright (perhaps the last bastion of a pre-modern Arsenal). Key images that will engage and delight readers include: 1930 - Arsenal win their first trophy, the FA Cup at Wembley; 1968 - Pat Rice working on a fruit stall; and, 1982 - Champagne Charlie Nicholas living up to his nickname. The book draws a line in the sand at the advent of the Premier League, when Arsenal, and football, were carried along on a wave of ruthless commercialism. Packed with evocative, atmospheric photos depicting bygone eras, When Football Was Football - Arsenal reminds us of how things used to be - and leaves the reader to decide which they prefer.