An End of Innocence: The Watershed Season of 1959/60

by Tim Quelch

Jimmy Greaves was England's most prodigious goalscorer of the 1950s and 1960s. In his autobiography, Greavsie, he writes that the 1959/60 English football season was the final year of football's age of innocence. He saw the open, attacking football of the 1950s give way to a much more defensively minded game. It was an era which also saw the advent of the tracksuit manager and specialist coaches. An End of Innocence examines English football in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 178531758X
• ISBN13: 9781785317583
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Pitch Publishing
• Length: 388 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.4" x 8.4"