Life in the Beautiful Game (HARDBACK)
UK £16.99,Canada $34.00,
UK Publication October 2004
ISBN 9781848310186
Hardback
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Bob Wilson's Life in The Beautiful Game sees the Arsenal legend and veteran BBC presenter takes a long and personal look back at a sport that has kept him busy in one form or another for over half a century. During his career, he has played alongside or against, coached, interviewed, become friends with, or at least met pretty much every great name the game of football has ever produced. Needless to say, he has picked up some pretty good stories along the way. From Busby to Beckham, Garrincha to Gazza, Puskas to Pele, no one escapes Wilsons entertaining dissection of the game.
Discover why the great Bill Shankly once locked him in a room at the Liverpool training ground and wouldn't let him out, why the legendary Brian Clough once insisted on getting him drunk before an interview, and what really happened in that infamous Arsenal and Man Utd tunnel punch-up between Vieira and Keane.
It's clearly a sport he loves, and there is no question that reading his book will leave you remembering why football acquired the moniker 'The Beautiful Game'.
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‘A great insight into a great game from a great man’ Arséne Wenger
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Bob Wilson is the veteran presenter of nine football World Cups, as well as BBC Grandstand, Sportsnight and Match of the Day. Bob originally qualified as a teacher before being lured away to play football for Scotland and Arsenal, with whom he won the European Fairs Cup and the League and FA Cup double.
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