Gordon Burn

Best and Edwards (Könyv)

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‘The hero is the creature other people would like to be. Edwards was such a man, and he enabled people to respect themselves more.’By the mid-fifties Manchester United had caught the imagination of the country. Duncan Edwards played his first game for the club in 1953, at the age of fifteen years and eight months. Two years later he won his first England cap and Walter Winterbottom, then England manager, referred to him as ‘the spirit of British football’. On L15 a week and living at Mrs Watson’s boarding house at 5 Birch Avenue in Manchester, Edwards was the most prized of the ‘Busby Babes’. Then in February 1958 came Munich.Half a decade later George Best represented the reborn United. ‘Georgie’ of the boutiques and dolly birds; ‘El Beatle’ of the European Cup and European Player of the Year in 1968; in the opinion of Pelé, the most naturally talented footballer that ever lived.

But by the age of twenty-seven he was retired from the game and reduced to the role of Chelsea barfly and tabloid perennial.An investigation into a club, two personalities and the burgeoning era of the celebrity, Best and Edwards plots the course and trajectory of two careers cut tragically short.

Gordon Burn: Best and Edwards könyv ára: 8 494 Ft