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Heads Up

Autor Alan Smith
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 23 aug 2018
Alan Smith is a true icon of modern British football.

In his first season at Leicester, he scored 13 goals (playing up front with Gary Lineker), which helped the club win promotion to the former First Division. After five seasons and 84 goals in over two hundred appearances, he was transferred to Arsenal where he spent eight years and won two League titles, the FA Cup, the Football League Cup and the European Winners' Cup. At Arsenal, Smith became one of the league's top target men, with a remarkable ability to retain the ball and execute the perfect pass. For four consecutive seasons, Smith was the club's top scorer, winning the Golden Boot in 1988-89 and 1990-91. But it was his solitary goal against Parma in the 1994 European Winners' Cup final that elevated Smith to hero-like status at the club.

Written by Alan Smith himself - he was a columnist for the Daily Telegraph for twenty years - Heads Up is the honest and unflinching memoir of one of the country's greatest strikers. The book reveals the game from a player's perspective: on managers and referees; tactics and booze-ups; dressing rooms and away fans; on what it takes to be a top striker and what really happens on the pitch. It also examines just how the game changed from the stalwart professionalism of the old First Division to the globalization of the Premier League.

Heads Up is Alan Smith's career on and off the pitch, in his own words.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781472127860
ISBN-10: 1472127862
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 156 x 240 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Little Brown Book Group

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'Alan's book is like his game: incisive, thoughtful, intelligent and consistently hits the target' Gary Lineker

'A brilliant, articulate, thoughtful man with a wonderful sense of humour: Smudge encapsulates all he is and knows in this fantastic book that will capture the hearts of every football fan' Tony Adams

'It was different back then, at least through Arsenal eyes. This was a young, exciting team full of hope and desire, led by a manager bristling with ambition . . .'

Anfield '89. Copenhagen '94. Two of Arsenal's greatest triumphs in the modern era. Both matches defined by the goal-scoring prowess of one man - Alan 'Smudger' Smith.

Smith's rise in football was vertiginous: playing for Alvechurch in the Southern League one year, competing in the top flight twelve months later. His first three years at Leicester were characterized by a successful partnership with Gary Lineker. When Lineker left for Everton, Smith stepped forward as the main goal-getter. It was Smith's move to Highbury, however, that enabled him to become the winner of two Golden Boots and one of the most highly-rated strikers in the game.

Honest, insightful and authoritative, Heads Up reveals what it was like forging a career in the tough First Division of old before the glitz of the Premier League took hold; the ins and outs of playing for George Graham and rooming with Gazza; the truth behind Anfield '89; which team could easily have gone on to become the first 'Invincibles' had Chelsea not spoiled it one February afternoon; how the highs of the game can quickly be converted into morale-sapping lows; and how injury really does affect a career.

After twenty years of writing for the Daily Telegraph, covering four World Cups, four European Championships and countless club games, Alan Smith has done what few ex-professionals are able to do - describe in his own words what it's really like to play the game . . .

'Very enjoyable and typically honest account by my old mate on a fine career' Lee Dixon

Recenzii

Alan's book is like his game: incisive, thoughtful, intelligent and consistently hits the target
A brilliant, articulate, thoughtful man with a wonderful sense of humour: Smudge encapsulates all he is and knows in this fantastic book that will capture the hearts of every football fan
Very enjoyable and typically honest account by my old mate on a fine career
'This fantastic book will capture the heart of every football fan' Tony Adams

Anfield '89. Copenhagen '94. Two of Arsenal's greatest triumphs in the modern era. Both matches defined by the goal-scoring prowess of one man - Alan 'Smudger' Smith.

Smith's rise in football was vertiginous: playing for Alvechurch in the Southern League one year, competing in the top flight twelve months later. His first three years at Leicester were characterized by a successful partnership with Gary Lineker. When Lineker left for Everton, Smith stepped forward as the main goal-getter. It was Smith's move to Highbury, however, that enabled him to become the winner of two Golden Boots and one of the most highly-rated strikers in the game.

Honest, insightful and authoritative, Heads Up reveals what it was like forging a career in the tough First Division of old before the glitz of the Premier League took hold; the ins and outs of playing for George Graham and rooming with Gazza; the truth behind Anfield '89; which team could easily have gone on to become the first 'Invincibles' had Chelsea not spoiled it one February afternoon; how the highs of the game can quickly be converted into morale-sapping lows; and how injury really does affect a career.

After twenty years of writing for the Daily Telegraph, covering four World Cups, four European Championships and countless club games, Alan Smith has done what few ex-professionals are able to do - describe in his own words what it's really like to play the game . . .