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The Book of Football Obituaries celebrates the lives of a cavalcade of remarkable characters, men who have loomed large in the collective consciousness of countless football fans, week by week, season by season. Collected together in this life-affirming commemoration of achievement are 446 individuals who have touched, entertained, outraged or inspired us; footballers who have maybe even earned that special love we reserve for our sporting heroes. The passing of some of these great players provoked something close to national mourning - household names such as Sir Stanley Matthews, George Best, Brian Clough, Sir Bobby Robson - while others have died far too young, the likes of David Rocastle, Justin Fashanu, Gary Ablett and Gary Speed. And how refreshing that there is final democracy in death, with many an unsung hero appearing in what is effectively a who's who of British football, full of vivid atmosphere and evocative historical detail.

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Publié par	Pitch Publishing Ltd
Date de parution	01 août 2012
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781909178038
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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The book of
Football
Obituaries
by Ivan Ponting
First published by Know the Score Books 2009 Reprinted by Pitch Publishing 2012
Pitch Publishing A2 Yeoman Gate Yeoman Way Durrington BN13 3QZ
www.pitchpublishing.co.uk
Ivan Ponting 2008
eBook ISBN : 978-1-909178-03-8
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Contents
George Best
Cliff Bastin
Jack Kelsey
John Atyeo
Jim Holton
Danny Blanchflower
Roy Vernon
Johnny Hancocks
Tony Waddington
Terry Hibbitt
Billy Wright
Raich Carter
Geoff Bradford
Vic Buckingham
Len Goulden
Johnny Nicholls
Ted Drake
Johnny Carey
Harold Shepherdson
Albert Johanneson
Dave Bowen
Eddie Clamp
Harry Cripps
Bobby Langton
Harry Potts
Neil Franklin
Bob Paisley
Alan Brown
Eric Houghton
Cliff Holton
Bobby Keetch
Jimmy Gordon
Tommy Lawton
Stan Pearson
Len Millard
Frank Brennan
Eddie Quigley
Peter Springett
Ray Daniel
David Smith
Ian Moores
Jack Marshall
George Marks
Robbie James
George Male
Jimmy Hagan
Peter Sillett
Jimmy Scoular
Justin Fashanu
Gottfried Dienst
Keith Newton
Jack Rowley
Jackie Blanchflower
Ray Bowden
John Osborne
Matt Gillies
Brian Lewis
John McGrath
Dennis Viollet
Sir Alf Ramsey
Arthur Ellis
Laurie Scott
Frank Bowyer
Bill Dodgin Snr
Johnny Byrne
Ken Keyworth
Bert Sproston
Sir Stanley Matthews
Wilf Mannion
Shay Brennan
Willie Maddren
Geordie Armstrong
Len Shackleton
Stan Cullis
Colin Webster
David Rocastle
Alec Stock
Don Roper
Ronnie Allen
Billy Liddell
Les Sealey
Bertie Mee
Reg Matthews
Charlie Mitten
Jeff Astle
Duggie Reid
Walter Winterbottom
Ray Wood
Ian Hutchinson
Arthur Rowley
Albert Stubbins
Billy Morris
Peter Harris
Len Duquemin
Trevor Ford
Ray Harford
John Aston Snr
Trevor Smith
Joe Baker
Ted Bates
Gil Reece
Bob Stokoe
Henry Cockburn
John Charles
George Hardwick
Eddie Hopkinson
Dennis Wilshaw
Ron Ashman
Brian Clough
Bill Nicholson
Keith Weller
Emlyn Hughes
Bill Brown
Eddie Spicer
Jackie Henderson
Ron Burgess
Bill McGarry
Bedford Jezzard
Tommy Walker
Noel Cantwell
Johnny Haynes
George Swindin
Ted Ditchburn
Ron Greenwood
Charlie Wayman
Ferenc Bene
Roy Clarke
Nobby Lawton
Brian Labone
Les Olive
Ferenc Puskas
Joe Walton
Don Weston
Jock Dodds
John Ritchie
Brian Miller
Bobby Cram
Alan Ball
Warren Bradley
Derek Dougan
Danny Bergara
Norman Deeley
Ian Porterfield
Bill Perry
Nils Liedholm
John Doherty
Joe Shaw
Graham Paddon
Les Shannon
Jimmy Langley
Jimmy O’Neill
Tommy Harmer
Billy Elliott
Len Boyd
Brian Harris
Derek Dooley
Reg Flewin
Derek Tapscott
Tommy Johnston
Bill Shorthouse
Jimmy Sirrel
Jimmy Murray
George Edwards
Ray Deakin
Bert ‘Sailor’ Brown
Ian Greaves
Tommy Casey
Johnny Dixon
Vic Crowe
Paul Birch
Joe Haverty
Reg Davies
Harry Parkes
Eddie Lowe
Hugh Kelly
John Elsworthy
Tommy Cummings
Sir Bobby Robson
Bobby Thomson
Norman Curtis
Terry Bly
Alex McCrae
Ray Charnley
Ray Lambert
Keith Kettleborough
Archie Baird
Neil Dougall
Alan A’Court
Jack Brownsword
Albert Scanlon
Allen Batsford
Alex Parker
Gil Merrick
Brian Godfrey
Petar Borota
Charlie Crowe
Adam Blacklaw
Ken Barnes
Brian Clark
Jackie Sinclair
Bobby Smith
Eddie Baily
Malcolm Allison
Mel Hopkins
Ronnie Clayton
Ralph Coates
Bill Jones
Avi Cohen
Nat Lofthouse
Norman Uprichard
Les Stubbs
Neil Young
Eric Parsons
Dean Richards
Johnny Morris
Billy Gray
Allan Brown
Eddie Lewis
Tommy Wright
Frank Upton
Mike Doyle
Willie Fernie
Frank Munro
Stan Willemse
Laurie Hughes
Florian Albert
Jimmy Adamson
Gary Speed
Johnny Williams
Socrates
Len Phillips
George Robb
Gary Ablett
Ernie Gregory
Syd Thomas
Tom McAnearney
Ray Barlow
Barry Kitchener
Eddie May
Arthur Bottom
Alfie Biggs
Bobby Black
Alan McDonald
Jimmy Tansey
Joe McBride
Eddy Brown
Picture Section
Acknowledgements
Ivan Ponting would like to thank the following: Andy Cowie of Colorsport, who provided the pictures; James Lawton for his inspiration and support; Graham Hales for his beautifully clean design, his patience and his unfailingly good-hearted enterprise; Dean Rockett, truly a gem of a copy editor, Chris Maume, Diana Gower, Jamie Fergusson, Sarah Quarmby, Warren Howard, Lewis Jebb and Annabel Freyberg, The Independent obituaries team present and past, for humouring this country bumpkin for so long; Simon Lowe, who proposed the book, and Paul Camillin, who ran with it again; Melanie Michael-Greer for looking after business; Les Gold for his enthusiasm and contacts; and, as ever, Pat, Rosie and Joe Ponting.
Foreword by James Lawton
Few obituary pages run wider in their scope than those of The Independent; radical rabbis have to take their chances along with distinguished academics, military stalwarts and aboriginal folk heroes. But for those who love football, who feel a special wave of nostalgia when one of the gilded players of their youth lines up finally on the playing fields of eternity, there is invariably a point of certainty to go along with the sense of loss. They do not go without honour and a proper accounting. This is provided unerringly by Ivan Ponting, whose feeling for and knowledge of the national game, and the men who down the years have made it such an integral part of so many lives, is superbly illustrated in this collection. There is nothing mawkish or inflated about the work of Ponting. He is too diligent a researcher and clean and unsentimental a writer to provide his readers with anything less than a rounded picture of every football life he is so regularly asked to record. The result in these pages is more than a series of perfectly formed cameos of notable football lives, satisfying though these are in themselves, but also a deeply personalised guide to the history of a game which, under the influence of celebrity and wealth that would have been unimaginable in the youth of some of the men who re-emerge so colourfully here, sorcerers like Raich Carter, Wilf Mannion and Len Shackleton, is sometimes hard to recognise today. One of his few regrets – which we can only share on our own behalf – is that such icons as Sir Matt Busby and Bobby Moore died before Ponting changed from becoming a casual contributor to one of the pillars of the widely saluted Indy Obit pages. His craft, however, has not gone short of opportunities for the achievement of great distinction, and no one could have put down his accounts of the lives of such poignant heroes as George Best and Alan Ball without being both deeply moved and perfectly informed. Ponting’s touch has also served brilliantly in acknowledging the lives of less famous players, but ones who contributed magnificently to the texture and the depth of their profession. A classic example came with the death in 2007 of Bill Perry, the South African-born winger who was responsible for confirming the status of one of the most memorable and romantic days in the history of English football when he scored the winning goal so dramatically in the Stanley Matthews final of 1953. Perry’s fine career, and three appearances for England, were warmly acknowledged – alongside the lives of a hard-line rabbi, an Italian banker and racehorse owner, and Miss Lois Maxwell, the fabled Miss Moneypenny in 14 James Bond films. Ponting wrote: “On a sunlit May afternoon in 1953 the Blackpool winger’s injury-time strike was in a category of glory entirely of its own.” Deftly, the writer made a permanent record of Perry’s moment in the sun. It is just another reason to applaud the decision to grant similar recognition to the enduring work of Ivan Ponting.
James Lawton, Chief Sports Writer, The Independent
Introduction
Since the first edition of this book in 2008, a procession of truly illustrious names have been added to the contents list. Such men as Sir Bobby Robson, Malcolm Allison, Nat Lofthouse and the tragic young Gary Speed from these shores, and titans of the world game such as Socrates, the flamboyant Brazilian, and Florian Albert, the sublimely talented Hungarian, have all passed away. Whenever a famous football man dies, there is an inevitable degree of public grief, depending on the age of the individual and the circumstances of his demise. But newspaper obituaries, in the majority of cases, are not about mourning. They are about the celebration of the lives of often remarkable characters who have loomed large in the collective consciousness of their countless supporters, people who have admired them week by week, season by season; been touched by them, perhaps outraged by them, maybe even loved them in that special way which fans reserve for their sporting heroes. There is so much to remember, so many emotions to stir, and I hope this book goes some way towards achieving both. I have been contributing obituaries to The Independent since 1991, when the great Arsenal winger Cliff Bastin died and the newspaper’s regular writers were busy elsewhere. Clearly in a tight corner, the editor of the Gazette section, which contained the obituaries at that time, took a punt on a call to an obscure freelance from the depths of Somerset, and since then I have attempted to capture the essence of some of t