This is an eye-opening view of sport seen through the eyes of a brilliant writer in Gary Imlach. Here Gary Imlach the son, seeks for Stewart Imlach the father and professional footballer. Not only does he understand his father more, but he also begins to understand the nature of the changes in football from a working-class game to one driven mainly by money. Some of the well-researched examples are not only eye-opening but jaw-dropping, particularly those related to the Scottish Football Team, to managers and management, and those related to pay and conditions.
Not only does Gary Imlach expose such examples, but he writes of them passionately and with such language as to bring them right off the page.
Imlach now is the face of TV presenting for the Tour de France where his sharp wit and perception can be heard daily. In this book those attributes can be found on every page. One reviewer wrote that this book should be "mandatory reading for every Premiership star". It should be, but all football lovers will also find it will enlighten them about where the game came from and perhaps also about some of its vices and virtues.
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One for football connoisseurs
Reviewed in the United States on 2 November 2013
