The Foreign Revolution: How Overseas Footballers Changed the English Game

by NickHarris (Author)

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  Chelsea's 2-1 win against Southampton on 26 December 1999 was less significant than the fact they fielded the first all-foreign XI in the history of the English Football League. The manager Gianluca Vialli couldn't understand the fuss, but English football had been irrevocably changed... The Foreign Revolution is the definitive account of how the mother country relearned the game, and opened her heart and wallet to a generation of foreign stars and a host of foreign managers. The celebrated and the obscure share the stage in this meticulously-researched and entertaining account of how cultures came to collide and merge in our national game. From the first forays in the late 19th century to the golden age of Cantona, Henry and Mourinho, the Russian Revolution at Stanford Bridge and the take over at Man Utd, Nick Harris dives into the melting pot and tells football's great unwritten story.

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  Stewart Granger was one of the few Brits who made it as a swashbuckling Hollywood screen idol during the golden age of the movies. His most famous roles - in films such as Scaramouche and King Solomon's Mines - established him as a prototypical man of action: uncomplicatedly masculine, chivalrous, something of a buccaneer. But his time at the top was short: not only did Hollywood move on to more complex films, starring more youthful, enigmatic figures like James Dean and Marlon Brando but Granger also gained a reputation for being prickly and difficult to work with. The later years of his life were characterised by unsuccessful business ventures and parts in Western TV series before a belated come-back in the action-movie, The Wild Geese . His private life, however, was complicated and spectacular: a torrid affair with Deborah Kerr (subsequently his co-star in King Solomon's Mines ) and then marriage to Jean Simmons, the love of his life. Don Shiach's biography is the first serious and comprehensive account of this contradictory, difficult star's life and career, which has left several memorable movies.