From the Playing Fields to the Killing Fields Part One - Brossura

Hudson, Alan

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1482605392 ISBN 13: 9781482605396

Casa editrice: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

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FROM THE PLAYING FIELDS TO THE KILLING FIELDS – Part One By Alan Hudson Is a re-written copy of the Working Man’s Ballet published in 1997 by Robson Books and written by Alan Hudson former Chelsea, Stoke City, Arsenal, Seattle Sounders and England international footballer. I decided and began to write the original Ballet from Seattle in 1981 on my 30th birthday, where I thought at last, I had found my resting place. I was at that time the captain of the most successful Seattle Sounders team in the history of the North American Soccer League, where we smashed all records set by the almighty New York Cosmos. After signing for Tommy Docherty as an apprentice at Chelsea in the year we won the World Cup (1966) I went on to win the FA Cup, finish runner-up to Billy Bremner at the Sports Writers Footballer of the Year Awards and, get selected for the following World Cup, only to be struck down by a horrific ankle injury, which was responsible for me missing both Wembley and Mexico. This was my greatest tragedy right up to 15 December 1997. As I say, injury struck me down so mercilessly, for the first time, whereas the last time, it almost cost me my life. At first, both of these incidents were looked at as tragic accidents, but as it turned out, only one was. The one that wasn’t took place 27 years later in the Mile End Road, but that comes to light in Book Two. Bobby Moore said of me, “Alan Hudson looked like conquering the world, perhaps for a short while he did?” The great West German playmaker Gunter Netzer said after my England debut, “Where have England been hiding this player, he was world class.” West German manager Helmut Schon said, “At last England have found a replacement for Bobby Charlton.” After leaving Chelsea for a record £250,000 move to Stoke City, I played the best football of my career under Tony Waddington and, that was when I finally got selected for England, if only for him saying, “Alan Hudson will play for the World XI before he plays for his country.” By the time I was nineteen I had played against Best, Pele, Moore, Charlton, Law and Cruyff. George, Pele and Cruyff at that time were the best three players on the planet, today of course Lionel Messi, who took over that tag from Maradona as the best since. George Best was to become a great friend and, I was the first person to visit him in the Cromwell Hospital! A big part of the book covers my run-ins with Ramsey and Revie with England, Dave Sexton at Chelsea, Terry Neill at Arsenal and, of course Clough. However there are several wonderful people included in this book who more than made up for that. The romantic side of the book far outweighs the ignorance of those who had brought our game to its knees. If my football career was, as I say at the beginning, a very rocky road then the road in east London was totally life changing, for it led me straight into the Resuscitation Room of the Royal London Hospital, where I lay in a coma for 59 days. They said I’d never walk again after being minutes away from having my legs amputated. On 15 December 1997, six months after the publication of The Working Man’s Ballet, I was hit by Mr. Ashgar Fatehi in the Mile End Road which left me in a coma for 59 days and hospitalized for the whole of 1998. In Book Two I will tell of this life changing, brutal attempt on my life. Just as I go to print I have been approached about fighting Rupert Murdoch and, although I know there will be many cases of life changing editorials that came out of both Fleet Street and Canary Wharf, I will, like I did in the Royal London Hospital, fight not only my corner, but for my rights. The same rights that the parents of their homecoming dead sons are about to fight very soon, and if they need my help they know where I am. The book to follow this is called: DON’T SHOOT THE TALIBAN...YOU’LL WAKE THE LOCALS!

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Alan Hudson is the former Chelsea, Stoke City, Arsenal, Seattle Sounders and England international footballer. He was the darling of Stamford Bridge, the quixotic maestro at the midfield hub of Chelsea’s supreme team of the seventies. He was England’s prodigal genius, the rebellious young man about the Kings Road at its trendiest. Now Mr Hudson is an author whose glittering instinct for the beautiful game and indulgence in the good life makes an extraordinary transition from the playing pitch to the printed page. Never orthodox or predictable in his passing, Hudson’s writing is also a genre of its own. In his own way idiosyncratic, off-the-wall, quirky, often bizarre, sometimes surreal, he offers a weird and wonderful insight into the world of flowing football and life in the London fast lane during the roaring seventies, and comparisons with today’s game and its personalities. It is as much a perceptive social document as it is a kaleidoscope flashback to the heyday of Osgood, Cooke, Tambling, Baldwin the Sponge, Bonetti the Cat, Chopper Harris and... Alan Hudson.

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• Editore: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1482605392
• ISBN 13: 9781482605396
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 582