My Story

Author:

By Charlie George

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Hardback (Paperback)

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Football, Biography, Charlie George, Arsenal FC, Derby County FC

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Further Details

• Published: 5th May 2005
• ISBN: 1844136965
• Pages: 288

From the Publisher:

Charlie George is recognised as the greatest among an elite group of footballers produced during what was a golden age for the English game. His frequent conflicts with authority, a by-product of his working-class unbringing in North London, helped single him out as representative of the Super Seventies. There was no plan on his part to be different. He was a natural born rebel in an era when that became expected of our heroes. His long hair made him identifiable and a target, but a far from easy one, on and off the field of play.

He was the darling of Arsenal's North Bank and is still regarded with reverence at Highbury thirty years after leaving the club he has never stopped loving. This is his life story: uncompromising and painfully truthful as he recalls the break-up of his marriage and the millions of pounds he has gambled since his first 2/6d (15p) bet on a horse as a ten year old.

It details his rise from child prodigy to Arsenal star of their remarkable Double-winning team of 1971, his intense dislike of manager Bertie Mee - and others he saw as the enemy - and the realisation he was being forced out of Highbury long before he should have been.

He tells of the troubled times he has faced since quitting the game and his constant rows with authority, but what remains is his love of the life he leads, his total lack of envy about today's top players, multimillionaires on a tenth of his talent, and his concern that Arsenal may be destined never to win the European Cup in his lifetime.