Author:Hunter Davies
When the first edition of The Glory Game was published in 1972, it was instantly hailed as the most insightful book about the life of a football club ever published. Hunter Davies was, and still is, the only author ever to be allowed into the inner sanctum of a top-level football team (Tottenham Hotspur) and his pen spared nothing and no one. 'His accuracy is sufficiently uncanny to be embarrassing,' wrote Bob Wilson in the New Statesman. 'Brilliant, vicious, unmerciful,' wrote The Sun.
Davies spent a whole season with the team, training with them, visiting the players' homes and witnessing the dressing-room confrontations. In the modern era of painstaking media management and tight security, no sportswriter will ever again be granted such unprecedented access. While some features of the game have changed beyond all recognition - notably the all-consuming role that money now plays - inside every club the dramas and tensions revealed by Davies remain, making the book a timeless classic and securing its position as one of the best books about football ever written.
Still the definitive football text . . . this book is indispensable
—— FourFourTwoThe Glory Game engages the mind while revealing the soul of the beautiful game
—— The HeraldBrilliant, anthropological account of life with Tottenham in 1973, before there were press officers and brand managers
—— David Goldblatt, author of the World Football Yearbook'Compelling...Glorious...Has an appeal far beyond football'
—— Guardian'Absolutely brilliant'
—— Independent on Sunday'Engaging and ambitious - crafted from the author's own personal story, passions and obsessions'
—— EsquireSports writing at its very best
—— Daily TelegraphThe football book of the year
—— Sunday TimesA love song to the North, and all the contradictions and little irritations about the region that make us love it more"
—— Yorkshire PostPromised Land' distinguishes itself from your average football book with a framing device evoking the Exodus. This enables Clavane to elegantly and evocatively explore his own Jewishness and the influence of the Israeli diaspora on his beloved football team as well as offering a potted history of the temper and temperament of the city itself ... Clavane's vision is far from gloomy - Leeds has a knack for self-sabotage but it's eminently capable of reinvention too
—— TimeoutThis "Northern love story" has as the objects of desire both the city of Leeds and its football club. Pretty often, neither attracts much affection beyond the West Riding-but Clavane digs deep and looks hard in order to explain the forces that shaped both town and team.
—— IndependentPromised Land is both an anatomy of the peculiar mass psychology of Leeds United's support (shaped by the team's multiple failures in big games) and a paean to Clavane's home town, which once nurtured a thriving Jewish subculture.
—— New StatesmanA hard-edged and searingly-honest insight into why we all bother investing so much in 11 men every weekend.
—— LoadedThe measure of a great book is a great start.Richard Moore’s introductory anecdote in Slaying the Badger set a new standard in cycling literature
—— Cycle Sport
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