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The Great English Final

Subtitle:: 1953: Cup, Coronation and Stanley Matthews
By:: David Tossell
Price:: £8.99
Out:: 15th June 2016
ISBN:: 9781785311468
Format:: Paperback
Size:: 198 x 129
Pages:: 320

Description

The 1953 FA Cup Final between Blackpool and Bolton Wanderers had everything: seven goals, a dramatic comeback and, in Stanley Matthews, a fairytale hero. The match came to represent a post-war golden age; but change was coming in the shape of television, consumerism and a new monarch. And soon football, too, would never be the same again.

About the author

David Tossell is the author of 13 previous sports books, including five nominations in the British Sports Book Awards and two for the MCC/Cricket Society Book of the Year. A sports journalist for more than three decades, he has been the head of the NFL's public relations in Europe for the past 20 years.

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