Stokoe, Sunderland and 73
ISBN 13: 9780752898513 ISBN 10: 0752898515
Author: Hardy, Lance
Pub Date: 1 Mar 2010
Answer Code: Temporarily Out of Stock
Edition Type: 1
Format: Hardback
Imprint: Orion Non Fiction
RRP: $70.00
Description
Today, the romance of the FA Cup is pretty much dead. It's inconceivable that a team from the lower reaches of the Championship could beat the likes of Chelsea or Man Utd in the FA Cup Final of 2008. Yet, thirty six-years ago, that is precisely what Bob Stokoe's Sunderland achieved in overcoming the widely reviled Leeds team of Don Revie. It was, arguably, the last fairytale of recent footballing times.
In STOKOE, SUNDERLAND AND 73, Lance Hardy talks to all the Sunderland players who turned out at Wembley that day and to the family of Bob Stokoe, to produce the definitive account of possibly the greatest FA Cup Final upset of all time.
Author Bio
Lance Hardy is the editor of the BBC1's Final Score. He has covered several World Cups and two Olympic Games for the BBC, as well as numerous Embassy World Darts Championships. He ghost wrote Bobby Dazzler, Bobby George's autobiography.
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