The Inside Story of Spurs' Triumphant 1960-61 Season

The Double

Ferris boasts a magnificent eye for detail . . . a book near impossible to put down. Every modern professional footballer should read this

Ken Ferris is the author of Football Fanatic and The Double. He has been a journalist for over 20 years and currently works for Reuters. He has also written books on economics, entitled Market Movers and Reuters Guide to Official Interest Rates.

'Tottenham Hotspur's reputation around the world was forged by the great double-winning team fashioned by Bill Nicholson, and every Spurs manager since then has lived in the shadow of the great man's achievements over the 
 course of that amazing 1960-61 season' - from the foreword by Martin Jol 
 
 When the legendary Danny Blanchflower climbed the steps to the Royal box at Wembley to collect the FA Cup in 1961, he made football history - Tottenham Hotspur had become the first team to win 'The Double' of FA Cup and League Championship in the twentieth century. This compelling book tells the inside story of the double-winning campaign through extensive interviews with players, directors, managers and fans. Like Hunter Davies's ground-breaking The Glory Game, this is more than just a book about one club. It describes the golden age of the game at the dawn of the 1960s and will therefore appeal to all football fans.

A Record Breaking Journey Through English Football

Football Fanatic

An enjoyable, anecdote-packed and fact-riddled book . . . a compelling  read . . . contains a wealth of trivia

A  travelogue-cum-historical, anecdotal account of a manic cross-country  odyssey

Will appeal to fan, football widow and all  those simply fascinated by obsessive behaviour. It is difficult not to  find the author endearing

Ken Ferris is also the author of The Double and Manchester United in Europe. He has been a journalist for more than 30 years and currently works for Reuters.

This is the book which landed the author in the Guinness Book of Records for his record-breaking 20,000-mile tour of every Football League Ground in England. 
 
The first edition was hugely successful and was listed by Sportspages Bookshop as one of the bestselling football books of the year. 
 
This new and enlarged edition features reports on all 93 grounds visited by the author and is a comprehensive and entertaining guide for every football fanatic.

Ken Ferris

Tragedy, History, Destiny

Manchester United's quest to win the European Cup was forged amidst the charred remains of an Elizabethan airliner that crashed on take-off at Munich's Riem Airport on 6 February 1958. Twenty-three people died in the tragedy, including eight of the famous Busby Babes. From that moment manager Matt Busby's goal of winning the European Cup became an obsession that permeated the whole club.Ten years after the Munich disaster, Busby achieved his dream when United - inspired by Bobby Charlton and George Best - beat Benfica 4-1 in extra time to lift the European Cup at Wembley. Some felt the ghosts of Munich were there to witness the club's joy. It seemed to be United's destiny finally to honour those who had lost their lives in pursuit of the gleaming silver trophy. But that triumph was to hang over the club for the next 31 years as United failed to regain those heights. Alex Ferguson's arrival spawned a flood of trophies, but the European Cup - by then known as the Champions League - remained elusively outside their grasp. Then came the last final of the twentieth century, against Bayern Munich in the towering splendour of Barcelona's Nou Camp, when United snatched a 2-1 victory from the jaws of defeat to complete the impossible Treble. Manchester United in Europe: Tragedy, Destiny, History recounts the course of those three European campaigns. Using first-hand accounts of the dramatic events, the book describes the sadness and the joy that have run through United's pursuit of European glory and considers the club's chances of ever repeating the European triumphs of the past.

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