West Brom's Cult Heroes

Author:

By Simon Wright

Format:

Hardback

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In print, usually dispatched within 5-7 days.

Price:

£16.99

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Football, Football Teams, Match of My Life, West Bromwich Albion FC

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Further Details

• Published: 30th Sep 2006
• ISBN: 190544902X
• Pages: 256
• Photos: 60
• Size: 234mm x 156mm

From the Publisher:

Despite being founder members of the Football League, West Bromich Albion have never been one of the 'glamour' clubs. In West Brom's Cult Heroes Simon Wright, editor of fanzine Grorty Dick, examines why so many Baggies heroes are merely parochial stars, when their talents often deserved national merit.

Included are tales of an England striker whose fame was later more for his Elvis impersonations than his winning goal in the FA Cup Final, the goalscorer who ended up in prison and the tricky inside forward who met his death in the First World War.

This celebration of 20 of Albion's greatest heroes draws many unlikely and controversial conclusions and also reveals for the first time numerous stories and anecdotes from behind the scenes.

Including a wealth of new research into several players whose stories have previously been mysteriously difficult to uncover, West Brom's Cult Heroes will be the first book of its kind to really get beneath the skin of one the country's oldest football clubs.