The Sunday Times World Football Handbook 1976. “Compiled by Brian Glanville”
In the upstairs toilet library. The gold here is results of every european trophy game since the 50’s to 1974/75, and the poetry contained within.
However, Glanville’s snarky write-ups are very entertaining. A world away from today’s breathless hype.
”The atmosphere of unreality which has long surrounded theLeague Cup became a positive miasma when the 1975 finalists turned out to be two Second Division teams, Aston Villa and Norwich City. The match itself, though watched by a deluded 100,000 and blown up out of all proportion by the sheep-like media, turned out to be appropriately drab”
”By contrast to the previous Championship, which Leeds dominated for so long, this was democratic to a degree; a degree of mediocrity”
”Overall, alas, it was a picture of tactical conservatism and technical insufficiency. Outstanding individuals were at a premium”
And we all know which club this is, don’t we? “Their hooligan, nihilist fans were the terror of the country.”
