Alchemy : Brian Clough & Peter Taylor at Hartlepools United Hardback
by Christopher Hull
Hardback
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Boxing Day 1962: Sunderland’s star striker Brian Clough suffers a career-ending knee injury when he collides with an outrushing goalkeeper.
After a forlorn battle to regain fitness, he retires early and sinks into deep despair. October 1965: Clough persuades ex-’Boro teammate Peter Taylor to join him in managing perennial North-East strugglers Hartlepools United, lying next to bottom of the Fourth Division. A magical football odyssey has begun. Alchemy reveals the bittersweet reality of Brian Clough and Peter Taylor’s first management job together.
Lower-league Hartlepools United are penniless, with a meddling chairman, a ramshackle ground and want-away players.
Yet the management pair tackle every challenge head-on, forging a winning blueprint that later transforms unfashionable Derby County and Nottingham Forest into League and European Cup champions. Exploiting a wealth of archive newspapers, plus interviews with those present at the creation, Alchemy exposes the humble origins of Clough & Taylor’s meteoric rise to the top of the football tree.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:20 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:The History Press Ltd
- Publication Date:15/09/2022
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- ISBN:9780750999595
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:20 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:The History Press Ltd
- Publication Date:15/09/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9780750999595