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"Sheer joy" - Patrick Barclay "Exhilarating" - When Saturday Comes "Perfect" - Josh Widdicombe Four years after the crowning glory of 1966, and a decade after the abolition of the maximum wage, a brash new era dawned in English football. As the 1970s took hold, a new generation of larger-than-life players and managers emerged, appearing on television sets in vivid technicolour for the first time. Set against a backdrop of strikes, political unrest, freezing winters and glam rock, Get It On tells the inside story of how commercialism, innovation, racism and hooliganism rocked the national game in the 1970s. Packed with interviews with the legends of the day, this footballing fiesta charts the emergence of Brian Clough, Bob Paisley and Kevin Keegan and the fall of George Best, Alf Ramsey and Don Revie, presenting a vibrant portrait of the most groundbreaking decade in English football history.

Get It On: How the '70s Rocked Football

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"Sheer joy" - Patrick Barclay "Exhilarating" - When Saturday Comes "Perfect" - Josh Widdicombe Four years after the crowning glory... Read more

    Publisher: Biteback Publishing
    Publication Date: 23/02/2023
    ISBN13: 9781785907869, 978-1785907869
    ISBN10: 1785907867

    Number of Pages: 416

    Non Fiction , Sport

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    "Sheer joy" - Patrick Barclay "Exhilarating" - When Saturday Comes "Perfect" - Josh Widdicombe Four years after the crowning glory of 1966, and a decade after the abolition of the maximum wage, a brash new era dawned in English football. As the 1970s took hold, a new generation of larger-than-life players and managers emerged, appearing on television sets in vivid technicolour for the first time. Set against a backdrop of strikes, political unrest, freezing winters and glam rock, Get It On tells the inside story of how commercialism, innovation, racism and hooliganism rocked the national game in the 1970s. Packed with interviews with the legends of the day, this footballing fiesta charts the emergence of Brian Clough, Bob Paisley and Kevin Keegan and the fall of George Best, Alf Ramsey and Don Revie, presenting a vibrant portrait of the most groundbreaking decade in English football history.

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