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''pulls no punches'' The Sun

''full of eventful tales from the past'' Daily Mail

''punchy, earthy ... entertaining stories that capture football in an era long before sanitised PR and Instagram self-promotion'' Independent

From West Ham''s cult hero, Julian Dicks, a hugely entertaining romp through football and the East End of the Eighties and Nineties.

''Cult figure'' is a term hardly used in football these days: where have they all gone? In the sterile and corporate modern game, is there room for the mercurial midfielder or the tough-tackling defender or the pot-bellied goal poacher? Rewind two or three decades and British professional football was stuffed to the gunnels with these ''one-offs'': players with bags of talent, yes, but also lorryloads of personality and a hugely relatable quality which meant they''d all be playing Sunday morning park football if they hadn''t become professionals. No media t

Hammer Time

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      Publisher Headline Publishing Group
      Published 1 September 2024
      ISBN-13 9781472296597
      978-1472296597
      ISBN-10 1472296591
      Also in:
      Biography Autobiography: sport

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      ''pulls no punches'' The Sun

      ''full of eventful tales from the past'' Daily Mail

      ''punchy, earthy ... entertaining stories that capture football in an era long before sanitised PR and Instagram self-promotion'' Independent

      From West Ham''s cult hero, Julian Dicks, a hugely entertaining romp through football and the East End of the Eighties and Nineties.

      ''Cult figure'' is a term hardly used in football these days: where have they all gone? In the sterile and corporate modern game, is there room for the mercurial midfielder or the tough-tackling defender or the pot-bellied goal poacher? Rewind two or three decades and British professional football was stuffed to the gunnels with these ''one-offs'': players with bags of talent, yes, but also lorryloads of personality and a hugely relatable quality which meant they''d all be playing Sunday morning park football if they hadn''t become professionals. No media t

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