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Tom Finney Autobiography

3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 · rating details · 8 ratings · 1 review
Tom Finney personifies a vanished golden era of football, playing his entire career under the maximum wage and never wavering in his loyalty to Preston North End. A true gentleman of the game, who is still justifiably idolised more than 40 years since he retired from football, Finney recalls the highs and lows of his marvellous career with a warmth and affection that will ...more
Paperback , 431 pages
Published 2004 by Headline Book Publishing (first published 2003)
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Pete
if you have ever yearned for a time when the beautiful game was a simple artistic affair
unsullied by astronomic wages and admission fees. If you ever wanted to hear about loyalty
and dedication and it come from the heart and soul of a true gentleman. Someone who had the touch
and finesse of a ballet dancer and the clinical finishing prowess of an assassin yet could
talk to the man and boy in the street in the same down-to-earth humble demeanour as he could converse
with royalty.

If you have ever love
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