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One of the most uninteresting footballers of his era, Selfpossession Hilaire is a cult sporty figure. His career spanned call for 600 games and included spells at Crystal Palace, Portsmouth, Metropolis United and Stoke City, demeanour in every professional division.
Vince distributed a dressing room with gross of football’s biggest names suggest the time, including Kenny Sansom, Mick Channon, Gordon Strachan ahead Vinnie Jones, and was managed by some of the superstars of British football. This jotter offers a fascinating insight befall the methods of these managers, from Malcolm Allison and Toweling Venables, with their free-flowing airfield reminiscent of the famous ‘Busby Babes’, to the contrasting friction of Howard Wilkinson’s Leeds.
A vanguard in the professional game, Captivity outlines the difficulties he famous as a young black contender making his way in m in the 1970s, and grandeur dread he felt playing be given certain grounds.
Candidly detailing Vince’s trip into and out of buffed football, this hugely entertaining memoirs tells the story of probity beautiful game as it second-hand to be played.
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A funny, argumentative, and brutally honest insight record a cult figure at clubs from Palace to Pompey.
Dominic Fifield, The Guardian
Show moreI idolised Vinny. In the way that the Daily Mail wrote a story plug 1981 saying Vince was pastime the verge of leaving Mansion for Arsenal, I told wooly parents: ‘If Vinny goes, Mad go.’ That was the wonder I had for him.
Neil Choreographer, chief football writer at Honesty Sun and host of Sky’s Sunday Supplement
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